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2) The Bank
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Language
English
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"We know who you are! Can your current bank say that? We pride ourselves on providing unparalled service to all of our customers. We're looking forward to banking with YOU!" In the small town of Montgomery, Arizona, Kyle Decker's book shop is barely breaking even. When a bank opens in the empty storefront next door, he hopes the new establishment will bring in more foot traffic. Trouble is, nobody has ever heard of The First People's Bank, and the...
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English
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Charlie and Oliver, brothers and bankers at a very exclusive bank, accept an offer of three million dollars in an apparently abandoned account when they are fired from their jobs but find they are in over their heads when a friend ends up dead and the bank, the Secret Service, and a private investigator begin hounding them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind it all was revealed, it created a national media sensation--but that's only part of the story. Where @GSElevator captured the essence of the banking...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 21st Century Monetary Policy, Ben S. Bernanke--former chair of the Federal Reserve and one of the world's leading economists--explains the Fed's evolution and speculates on its future. Taking a fresh look at the bank's policymaking over the past seventy years, including his own time as chair, Bernanke shows how changes in the economy have driven the Fed's innovations. He also lays out new challenges confronting the Fed, including the return of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
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Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, the Federal Reserve, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how its chairman Ben Bernanke led the desperate effort to prevent the world's financial engine from grinding to a halt.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
17) Sons of fortune
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Language
English
Description
Fraternal twins Nat and Fletcher, separated at birth in 1940s Connecticut, follow different paths to success until they finally meet and realize their connection while running against each other for governor of Connecticut.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell, a portfolio manager in a profitable investment management group, and Jesse Hayes, an IRS agent, uncover a world of blackmail and corruption in which several corporate interests stand to profit illegally if a wealthy entrepreneur is elected as senator in an upcoming election.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed historian and financial analyst, the first definitive history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman - and through it, the rise to world power of the so-called American Establishment. Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the 19th century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic every generation, Brown Brothers quietly...
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