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Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest chop shop brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold...
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Under existing SEC disclosure requirements, a public corporation is required to fully and fairly disclose facts about its operations that are "material" to a shareholder's investment decision. But despite the growing evidence of climate change's broad range of impacts, 76.3% of annual reports filed in 2008 by S&P 500 corporations failed to even mention climate change. The true test of proper climate risk disclosure will be its quality, assessed using...
3) Black friday
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The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson's classic superthriller, Black Friday. A courageous federal agent, a powerful and resourceful woman lawyer, only they can possibly stop the unspeakable from happening. New York City is under siege by a secret militia group, and that's just the beginning of the relentless terror of Black Friday.
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Having been rocked by one damaging revelation of misbehavior after another, Wall Street is in a state of crisis. Investors are disgusted by the misdeeds of a few and suspicious of the industry at large. Every firm finds its integrity open to question. Regulators are up in arms. And the industry is facing billions of dollars in costs to comply with a floodtide of new regulations. But imagine what could happen if Wall Street firms looked back to a simpler...
5) Black market
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Wall Street is to be blown up by an elite band of terrorist. Time has run out-the Green Band has marked the Street for total destruction. Who are these Jackal-like terrorists? Why are they holding the world's financial heart hostage? - taken from cover
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"Michael Edesess learned early in his career that the investment industry's claims that it could beat market averages were simply not true. Professional investors, it seemed, could not predict stock prices better than the nearest cab driver. The Big Investment Lie helps readers cut through the thicket of hype in this perilous area, showing how widespread acceptance of the 'lie' allows an entire industry to prosper on the small investor's dime. Edesess...
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"Written with verve and passion. . . . offers a remarkable array of insights into the history of American capitalism." - Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
"Big, boisterous, biting, and brilliant. . . . both page-turner and scholarly tour de force." - Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom Just Around the Corner
"Remarkable. . . . Fraser tells the tale in high style." - Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton...
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"An in-depth look at the failure of Wall Street's "proven" financial models Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into intricate and aesthetically attractive shapes. As such, it is the perfect metaphor for the Wall Street financial engineering model, which ultimately proved to be the underlying cause of the 2008 financial crisis. In Financial Origami, Brendan Moynihan describes how the Wall Street business model evolved from a method to transfer...
10) Hustlers
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Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street client©·le hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
11) Margin call
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Set in the high-stakes world of Wall Street, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.
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"Jeric�o, 2010. Rania, una joven y humilde chica de padre palestino y madre americana, lleva una pl�acida existencia, disfruta del amor puro de Abdul y sue�na con un futuro junto a �el. Pero un brutal suceso rompe su vida. David Ackermann, capit�an del ej�ercito israel�i, se encuentra en una situaci�on de emergencia. Uno de sus hombres ha huido y se dirige a Jeric�o armado, borracho y ciego de ira. Cuando lo localiza se enfrenta...
14) Wall Street
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An ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of a Wall Street legend. But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a high price.
15) The October list
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"Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List."--Provided by publisher.
17) Soul assassin
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When a young, ambitious security agent employed by a powerful multinational banking firm finally secures an important promotion on the company's top internal security team, he has reached the pinnacle of his career. Intending to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he plans out the perfect romantic evening. His plan ends in tragedy when she is brutally murdered by a hit man. As a trained killer, he is primed to guard the only thing left for him - the...
18) Inside job
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Through extensive interviews with key financial insiders and others, examines the causes and effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, which nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
19) Inside Job
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Through extensive interviews with key financial insiders and others, examines the causes and effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, which nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
20) Hustlers
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Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.