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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 216 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 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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    • 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 536 ratings
    • An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats....

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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 108 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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    • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
    • By: Brooke Harrington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.

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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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    • 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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    • 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 917 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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    • By: Joseph J Wang
    • Narrated by: Bill Anciaux
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • 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 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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    • 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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    • How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
    • By: Catherine Belton
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him....

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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 866 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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    • How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
    • By: William D. Cohan
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • The best-selling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success....

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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 17 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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    • Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
    • By: Jake Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Jake Bernstein
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Journalist Jake Bernstein takes listeners inside the scandalous world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale....

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    • The Myth of Michael Milken
    • By: Richard Sandler
    • Narrated by: Richard Sandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In 1986, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and its High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, a department Michael created and was head of....

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    • My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel
    • By: Robert Mazur
    • Narrated by: Robert Mazur
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy....

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    • Reflections on Financial Crises
    • By: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,263 ratings
    • Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

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