Newman, Jay Hartley
Summary: "A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate--yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEWReich, 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 REISummary: Growing affluence in Asia, economic development in Eastern Europe, and new approaches to natural resources in Africa-all are major influences on the global financial landscape and all provide ample demonstrations of the IMF at work. This program guides viewers through the history, mission, and real-world impact of the International Monetary Fund. Topics (all with an IMF focus) include China's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Wolf, Martin
Summary: "From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WOLSteiner, Peter
Summary: "St. John Larrimer was a well known Wall Street investment banker who had earned returns for his wealthy clients that exceeded even their fondest hopes. But it turns out that the returns existed only in St. John's imagination. By the time his staff and associates were detained and questioned, St. John had disappeared. Louis Morgon, a long retired CIA operative now living in France, had a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEEpping, Randy Charles
Summary: "What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out all this and more in this definitive guide to the world economy. As the global economic landscape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 EPPStiglitz, Joseph E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 337 STIBeaty, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 BEAChomsky, Noam.
Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHOFerguson, Niall.
Summary: Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.09 FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 332.090000 FerPears, Iain.
Summary: In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAReich, Christopher
Summary: When the CIA and British intelligence uncover a terrorist plot of unprecedented proportions, they discover that the only way to thwart the conspiracy is to follow a perilous money trail, wherever it may lead, to the source of evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In fourteen chapters, sixteen chief market economists provide perspective on the global economy including: globalization, currency, employment, commodity prices, developing economies, trade, fiscal and monetary policies, the future of the dollar and the euro, and the economic and political future of Asia and Europe. Includes 105 graphs and charts"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomberg Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9051 FLYDoctorow, Cory
Summary: "New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 LEWReich, Christopher
Summary: When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIReich, Christopher.
Summary: Set in the secret, labyrinthine world of Swiss banking, the story of a young man willing to risk everything--his career, his integrity, and even his life--to hunt down his father's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIReich, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRussell, Rupert
Summary: "A shattering account of the destabilizing power of price, and a powerful critique of the free market philosophy that leaves the most vulnerable at the mercy of the commodities markets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64 RUSDoctorow, Cory
Summary: The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 330.9 LEWSummary: CNBC's Becky Quick travels with iconic billionaire Warren Buffett during a business trip to China and South Korea. Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door-Going Global provides an inside look at the whirlwind tour, showcases Buffett's views on investing and wealth management, and offers a succinct case study of his first international acquisition, Iscar Metalworking. In an extended interview...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: One of the most surprising aspects of 21st-century capitalism is the emergence of shareholders who are concerned about corporate behavior and accountability. This program investigates that trend, assembling a collection of researchers and business leaders who share valuable insights into shareholder activism. Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Co-op America, and Linda Crompton, CEO of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007