Liu, Janet
Summary: "A series to build strong financial habits early on in life! How can I make money? What is inflation? What is the difference between a debit card and a credit card? Economics-and more specifically, money-play such a large role in our lives. Yet there are many mysteries and misconceptions surrounding the basic concepts of finance and smart money management. This set of True Books offers students...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 332.1 LIUSummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSStiglitz, Joseph E.
Summary: "A companion to his acclaimed work in Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy, Joseph E. Stiglitz, along with Carter Dougherty and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, lays out the economic framework for a Europe with faster growth that is more equitably shared. Europe is in crisis. Sluggish economic growth in many countries, widespread income stagnation, and recession have led...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.94 STIBoyack, Connor
Summary: "Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle in their exciting third adventure, as they uncover the curious mystery of how a powerful creature is stealing their grandparents' hard-earned savings, and how the twins are also being controlled by the same creature--without even knowing it! In honor of the classic The creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, this book introduces children to the history and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libertas Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BOYSimms, Susan Rose
Summary: Build students' personal finance skills. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 SIM1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 332.1 SIM
Summary: In 13th- and 14th-century Tuscany, money became the new tool of power as industry, trade, and finance flourished. This program follows the remarkable rise of the great banking families whose groundbreaking innovations in finance led to the economics of international big business practiced today. Merchant bankers also supported the aims of the Catholic Church by using their extraordinary wealth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Reich, Christopher
Summary: Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann leaves behind everything he holds dear in order to take a job at the United Swiss Bank in Zurich, an institution that he believes is somehow connected to his father's murder seventeen years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIKay, J. A. (John Anderson)
Summary: "The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332 KAYConn, Marla
Summary: When a boy's piggy bank breaks, it is time to go to a big bank. A boy, his pet dragon, and his father learn where money is kept and saved. An adapted, early emergent reader that includes a picture glossary, common sight words list, activities, and a note to caregivers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CONSummary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOI RATED PG-13Greco, Thomas H.
Contents: My purpose and my journey -- mega-crisis and metamorphosis -- can civilization be saved? -- the contest for rulership -- two opposing philosophies -- central banking and the rise of the money power -- the new world order -- usury and the engine of destruction -- the nature and cause of inflation -- the separation of money and state -- the evolution of money -- from commodity money to credit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.49 GRESummary: Are the days of the traditional cash economy numbered? This program examines ground-breaking monetary systems designed to benefit disadvantaged segments of the population and build strength in the small business sector-not only in the United States, but also in Mexico, India, Poland, and Britain. Traveling to each country, the program showcases remarkable financial innovations-including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How is the word "capital" related to "cattle"? What does the goddess Juno have to do with money? And is a "buck" related to a male deer? This intriguing documentary investigates the evolution of money and its impact on world history. Composed of a seamless flow of artwork, artifacts, archival footage, and film shot on location, the program spans 5,000 years, beginning with the agrarian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Its investment in global development programs tops
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: More than 100 million people live below poverty level in Bangladesh-many of them women. Thanks to the Grameen Bank and the small-business loans it makes to women only, many of them and their families are beginning to prosper. This program describes the philosophy, development, and function of the bank, then follows the daily activities of three women who have taken out loans to fund their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Central to the aims and ideals of the European Union is a single currency standard based on the euro. This wide-ranging program, divided into 12 segments, presents the history of the EMU, the unification timetable up to 2002, the convergence criteria, and the coins and banknotes themselves; provides background on the euro member states and the European Central Bank; examines the impact of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Money circulates through a multiplicity of financial markets at a dizzying speed and on a global scale. To make sense of the complicated world of high finance, this lively program profiles some of the people who keep the money moving. Nobel Laureate James Tobin, best-selling author John Murphy, fund managers, scholars, and day traders are captured at MIT Sloan, Yale University, Firebird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Micro credit—small loans administered with no collateral requirement—might represent the most powerful weapon in the fight against global poverty. But is micro credit a sustainable solution? This program follows up on the 1995 documentary The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh which examined Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, a pioneering micro credit provider focused mainly on struggling women. Small Change,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Colby, Jennifer
Summary: Banks uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The book provides the earliest of readers background information on banks. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019