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    • An Insider's Guide to the Industry
    • By: Michel Fleuriet
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What is investment banking? How do investment bankers generate profit for their clients? What is the function of each specialty? How has the industry changed in the past decade? Investment Banking Explained delivers a complete overview of investment banking in its modern form....

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    • The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy, 2nd Edition
    • By: Bradley C. Birkenfeld
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. But when he discovered that UBS was planning to betray him, he blew the whistle to the US government....

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    • The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
    • By: Simon Johnson, James Kwak
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever....

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    • The Next Economy and America’s Future
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert Reich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top....

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    • Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....

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    • Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
    • By: Mehrsa Baradaran
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap....

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    • The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
    • By: Nomi Prins
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,868 ratings
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

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    • Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
    • By: Sheila Bair
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Sheila Bair is widely acknowledged in government circles and the media as one of the first people to identify and accurately assess the subprime crisis....

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    • By: Ron Paul
    • Narrated by: Bob Craig
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....

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    • A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
    • By: Gerald Posner
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church....

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    • By: Joseph J Wang
    • Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending....

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    • How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
    • By: Michael Perino
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash....

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    • An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
    • By: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 864 ratings
    • This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

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    • The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
    • By: Oliver Bullough
    • Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats....

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    • How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today
    • By: Kerry Killinger, Linda Killinger
    • Narrated by: Gary Bennett
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • No institution, government, or country is “too big to fail.” A behind-the-scenes account of what led to the 2008 crisis - and may soon lead to a bigger one....

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    • Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
    • By: Quinn Slobodian
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy....

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