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Other People's Houses

How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business

by Jennifer Taub ...

The clearest explanation yet of how the financial crisis of 2008 developed and why it could happen againIn the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded claims. Drawing on wide-ranging experience as a ... Read more

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The clearest explanation yet of how the financial crisis of 2008 developed and why it could happen againIn the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded claims. Drawing on wide-ranging experience as a
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Big Dirty Money

Making White Collar Criminals Pay

by Jennifer Taub ...

**"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York TimesHow ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.**There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. ... Read more

$7.99 USD

**"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York TimesHow ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.**There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it.
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Big Dirty Money

The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime

by Jennifer Taub ...

Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

**"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York TimesHow ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.**There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York TimesHow ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.**There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it.
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Bring the War Home

The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

by Kathleen Belew ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and ... Read more

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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and
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The Price of Peace

Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

by Zachary D. Carter ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

22 hours 50 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal* ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal*
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The View from Flyover Country

Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior ...

Narrated by Sarah Kendzior ...

Unabridged

6 hours

**NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera
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The Death of Expertise

The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

by Tom Nichols ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal ... Read more

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People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal
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Hiding in Plain Sight

The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

by Sarah Kendzior ...

Narrated by Sarah Kendzior ...

Unabridged

9 hours 31 min

**New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.This program is read by the author.**The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.This program is read by the author.**The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible
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It's Even Worse Than You Think

What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

by David Cay Johnston ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated.New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political ... Read more

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From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated.New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political
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Billion Dollar Whale

The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright ...

Narrated by Will Collyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

The “extraordinary” (Financial Times) and definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, a "must read" (Booklist) "epic tale" (Publishers Weekly) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters.In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude was being set ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The “extraordinary” (Financial Times) and definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, a "must read" (Booklist) "epic tale" (Publishers Weekly) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters.In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude was being set
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The View from Flyover Country

Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior ...

**NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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**NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera
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Moneyland

The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

by Oliver Bullough ...

Inc.com 5 Business Thrillers to Read on the Beach This Summer * Amazon Best Book of the Month - Nonfiction * An Economist Book of the Year * The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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Inc.com 5 Business Thrillers to Read on the Beach This Summer * Amazon Best Book of the Month - Nonfiction * An Economist Book of the Year * The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the
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