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  • Bull by the Horns

    Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

    by Sheila Bair ...
    NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became—along with ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Bullies of Wall Street

    This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy

    by Sheila Bair ...
    Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level in this easy-to-understand book “that puts a human face on the economic crisis” (School Library Journal).In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bull by the Horns

    Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

    by Sheila Bair ...
    Narrated by Joyce Bean ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 49 min

    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. Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, she witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became—along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner—one of the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    My Week Without Soap

    One summer, long ago, I got really dirty and smelly, and learned how to balance a budget.

    by Sheila Bair ...
    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read With Highlights

    Unabridged

    2 min

    An article that describes budgeting with an anecdote about going to camp and not having enough money to buy the special soap needed to bathe in the lake. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Double $ Trouble

    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read with Highlights

    Unabridged

    6 min

    Learn how borrowing a little money can result in a big debt. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Zombie Banks

    How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy

    Narrated by Pete Larkin ...
    Series series Bloomberg

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    This book will address and answer the key questions...What's a zombie bank? When losses of a financial institution exceed its paid-in capital, it's insolvent. Thanks to systemic deregulation in the last 30 years and cheap credit availability, banks in the U.S. and Europe borrowed more and more on a thin layer of equity, funding the explosive growth of their housing markets through securitized ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How Banks Work

    by Sheila Bair ...
    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read with Highlights

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Learn how banks lend money and keep their depositors' money safe. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    How to Grow Your Own Money Tree

    Series series Read With Highlights

    Unabridged

    4 min

    Highlights presents How to Grow Your Own Money Tree by Paul H. O'Neill. How to save your money. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zombie Banks

    How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy

    by Yalman Onaran ...
    Series Book 160 - Bloomberg
    An in-depth look at the problems surrounding zombie banks and their dangerous effect on the global economy“The title is worthy of a B movie, but it's also apt. Bloomberg News reporter Yalman Onaran, supported by former U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief Sheila Bair - who provides a foreword and numerous interviews - urge that insolvent banks both small and too big to fail be allowed to do ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

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    22 hours 36 min

    A New York Times Bestseller“A fascinating account of the effort to save the world from another [Great Depression]. . . . Humanity should be grateful.”—Financial TimesIn 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, the unexpected apex of a personal journey from small-town South Carolina to prestigious academic appointments and finally public service in Washington’s halls of ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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    Pakistan on the Brink

    The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

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    What are the possibilities—and hazards—facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are America’s choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid—Pakistan’s preeminent journalist—takes on in this follow-up to his ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    The Party Is Over

    How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

    by Mike Lofgren ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

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    There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk—they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus