As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry--the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats--Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of...
Banks and banking
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Auteur:Stalker, PeterSommaire:What exactly is money and what does it do? We might understand coins, notes, and gold bars but do we understand credit default swaps and sovereign wealth funds? In responding to these questions with concise historical analysis and...
- Auteur:Majors, InmanSommaire:
Living in the late 1970s, brothers J.T. and Roland Cole build an impressive economic empire from their father's humble bank enterprise. Now they have their eyes on endeavors promising more wealth and power--but at what cost?
- Auteur:Berry, SteveSommaire:
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure, worth billions, known as Yamashita's...
- Auteur:Otto, Shawn LawrenceSommaire:
JW is a banker who specializes in profiting from Indian reservation casino deposits. When he is caught embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, JW's boss offers him a choice: go to prison or use his talents to sabotage a...
- Auteur:Le Carré, JohnSommaire:
In the wake of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one...
- Auteur:Barofsky, Neil M.Sommaire:
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling...
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Auteur:Johnson, SimonSommaire:Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the financial debacle of 2008, but also what the lessons learned portend for the future.
