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1) Working girl
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A secretary with a head for business takes advantage of her boss's bed-ridden condition and arranges a business deal. This title has been Repackaged.
A bright Wall Street secretary rises to a professional position by posing as her demanding boss after the boss is injured.
A romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess Mcgill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy but villainous...
3) Saving Jason
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"Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he's been asked to look into rumors of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside down. Suddenly embroiled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall Street, and threatened by some very serious men, he is thrust into witness protection with his young autistic son....
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275 pages, 17 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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English
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It's 2005. Nick Farmer is a bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures a year. The novelty of a work-related nightlife centering on liquor, hookers, and cocaine has long since worn thin, though Nick remains keenly addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on his marriage-- and on him. When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications of where Bear's high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading...
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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...
7) Clawback
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390 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Hired by a powerful financier to quickly and quietly address pressing monetary troubles, black ops veteran Silas Cade demands compensation for a deal gone bad from a hedge fund manager who is subsequently murdered.
8) Tower heist
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. They hire...
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A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation -- unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception....
12) Restitution
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322 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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With his successful career and seemingly perfect marriage in ruins after a one-night stand and the brutal murder of his wife, Peter Tyler goes on the run when he becomes the prime suspect in the crime.
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xvi, 382 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance, and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on interviews with top thinkers while demystifying the ideas that forged the modern market.
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331 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Quien miente en Wall Street? Verano de 2009. El FBI detiene a Sergey Alwunikov, un extrabajador de Goldman Sachs acusado de robar el codigo fuente de su antigua empresa. A Aleynikov, programmador de operaciones comerciales de alta frecuencia, se le niega la libertad bajo fianza alegando que, de caer en malas manos, el codigo robado puede usarse para manipular los mercados de forma injusta. ?Significa esto que las manos de Goldman Sachs son las...
15) The appeal
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Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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xxx, 154 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible, albeit flawed, engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us. Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in 2008. Maybe you hate the greed of Wall Street but know that it's important to the proper functioning of the world economy. Maybe you don't really understand...
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xii, 300 pages ; 25 cm
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Exposing governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, young chairman of the New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now his reputation has been noticed beyond the boardrooms of high finance--by powerful people with potentially devastating agendas. Christian's own attention is on Las Vegas, where he means to open a new casino and launch an NFL franchise--but the mob makes it clear that...
18) Margin call
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Who cares about the suffering -- existential, financial, or other -- of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by a mass layoff, a thumb drive, and a rocket-scientist-cum-analyst...
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xvii, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics. 75,000 first printing.
"What does it take to steal $5 billion? In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one...
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viii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization -- virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans...
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