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42) Too big to fail
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
43) Karthik delivers
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Karthik Raghavan is good at remembering things. Like his bike routes. Or all the reasons he likes Juhi Shah—even if she doesn’t even know he exists. It doesn't help that she seems to have a crush on his arch nemesis, Jacob Donnell, whose only job is to humiliate Karthik (and get his name wrong). Then Karthik's luck changes when he secretly agrees to be in a play about the famous musician, Leonard Bernstein. But he can't tell his parents. The family...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the Stuyvesant Town sale documents the losses of investor billions by real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, explores how the events surrounding the infamous deal reflected the ongoing real estate crisis.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (191996). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minskys warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, and fewer still understand their full importance. Why...
Author
Publisher
New Press, The
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history-a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn...
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