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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.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
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Brothers Charlie and Oliver Caruso work at the exclusive bank Greene and Greene but when the brothers find out that a colleague has been sabotaging Oliver's career plans they conspire to steel $3 million from a deceased client's account. With the Secret Service closing in and a friend found dead the brothers must escape to Florida to try and clear their names.
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On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Lerner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, and as she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew's death...
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A financial thriller on security analyst Nicholas Neumann whose father was murdered while working for a Swiss bank. When Neumann hears that the bank has a trainee vacancy, he sees his opportunity to find the killer. He gives up his well-paid job in New York to work for the bank in Zurich and discovers a money-laundering operation by drug dealers.
5) Kane & Abel
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Kane and Abel series volume 1
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"William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant--born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world--are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Two men--ambitious, powerful, ruthless--are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage,...
6) The bank
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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An introduction to banks and banking that discusses deposits and withdrawals, checking and savings accounts, bank business and security, safe deposit boxes, ATMs, and how banks help a community.
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Financial observer and journalist Walter Bagehot sheds light on the world of banking in his influential tract Written in response to a nineteenth-century banking crisis in England, Walter Bagehot's influential treatise was one of the first to clearly explain complex financial systems like international banking, currency, and corporate finance in clear and easy-to-understand language. Credit, Bagehot suggests, is based primarily on trust. When the...
9) East is east
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John Putnam Thatcher mysteries volume 21
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When golfing and tea ceremonies in Japan lead to sudden and violent death, John Putnam Thatcher, Wall Street whiz and amateur sleuth, finds himself entangled in an ever-widening web of mystery and murder.
10) What is a bank?
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IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Young readers will learn about saving accounts and interest, how to use a bankbook, why banks make loans, and how banks keep money safe.
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"Readings in Money and Banking" by Chester Arthur Phillips is a classic text that provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts in the field of money and banking. Unfortunately, as of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I don't have specific details about this particular book. However, I can provide you with a general idea of what you might find in a book of this nature. "Readings in Money and Banking" likely covers topics such as the history...
13) Banks
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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 reader's background information on banks. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index. The My Guide to Money series uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition...
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An insider points out the holes that still exist on Wall Street and in the banking system
Exile on Wall Street is a gripping read for anyone with an interest in business and finance, U.S. capitalism, the future of banking, and the root causes of the financial meltdown.
Award winning, veteran sell side Wall Street analyst Mike Mayo writes about one of the biggest financial and political issues of our time – the role of finance
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"Whether you're saving enough pennies for a pizza party or a are already flush with cash, everyone needs to be smart with money. No matter where you live in the world, it affects pretty much everything in your day-to-day life. Find out why it pays to learn about money now, plus how to use your creativity and smarts to turn your dimes into dollars!"--
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John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics--thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences. He then looks to the leading edge of economic theory, including behavioral economics, to offer a new understanding of the economy--one that casts aside the old assumption that people and firms make decisions purely on the...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. There are few indictments of the American banking system as searing as Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, written by Louis D. Brandeis in 1913. Long considered one of the major muckraking exposés of the Progressive period, it still speaks powerfully to our own times. The book led to the establishment of stringent regulations on the banking system, rules...
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"The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt, and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos. The happy talk from Wall Street...
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