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Popes and Bankers
- A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to AIG
- By: Jack Cashill
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amidst the wreckage of financial ruin, people are left puzzling about how it happened. Where did all the problems begin? For the answer, Jack Cashill, a journalist as shrewd as he is seasoned, looks past the headlines and deep into pages of history and comes back with the goods. From Plato to payday loans, from Aristotle to AIG, from Shakespeare to the Salomon Brothers, from the Medici to Bernie Madoff—in Popes and Bankers Jack Cashill unfurls a fascinating story of credit and debt, usury and “the sordid love of gain.”
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Popes and Bankers
- A Cultural History of Credit and Debt, from Aristotle to AIG
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Cashill traces the creative tension between “pious restraint” and “economic ambition” through the annals of human history and illuminates both the dark corners of our past and the dusty corners of our billfolds....
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Fragile by Design
- The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
- By: Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances. Rather, these fluctuations result from the complex bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers.
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Interesting, but why the hectoring voice?
- By Jan W. H. Schnupp on 13-11-15
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Fragile by Design
- The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
- Narrated by: Basil Sands
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-03-14
- Language: English
- Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none....
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Alexander Hamilton, America's Founding Father of Finance
- His Original Reports on Public Credit, a National Bank, Manufactures
- By: Alexander Hamilton, Mark Spencer
- Narrated by: Adam Sims, John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River and his star role in a 21st-century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America. The first incumbent of the office of secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789, Hamilton submitted a series of financial reports many of which became the economic foundations on which the US was built.
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Alexander Hamilton, America's Founding Father of Finance
- His Original Reports on Public Credit, a National Bank, Manufactures
- Narrated by: Adam Sims, John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-06-20
- Language: English
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It is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America....
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American Plastic
- Boob Jobs, Credit Cards and Our Quest for Perfection
- By: Laurie Essig
- Narrated by: Natalie Gold
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.
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American Plastic
- Boob Jobs, Credit Cards and Our Quest for Perfection
- Narrated by: Natalie Gold
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-12-10
- Language: English
- The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body....
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Complicit
- How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable
- By: Mark Gilbert
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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The credit crunch affected every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages were center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity.
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- How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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The credit crunch affected every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages were center stage, but behind the scenes was a conspiracy of greed....
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