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1991., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Ell Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Vintage contemporaries.Summary Note: In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
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By Duffy, Erinc2012., Adult, William Morrow Call No: Fic Duf Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.
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By Stumpf, Dougc2007., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Stu Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2014., Adult, W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 332.62 L675f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Flash Boys -- small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading -- source of the most intractable problems -- will have no advantage whatsoever. Several of the Flash Boys have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world's stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. The Flash Boys have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it"--Provided by publisher.
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By Lawson, Guyc2012., Adult, Crown Business Call No: Bio I73l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This story is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a hedge fund fraud and the wild search, for a secret market beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all, until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program he had created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. But his future was already beginning to unravel. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a secret market run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in the "Upperworld", a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the secret market was real or a con, Israel was all in, and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus' tentacles.
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c2013., Adult, Random House of Canada Limited Call No: Fic Rei Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
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By Towles, Amorc2011., General, Viking Call No: Fic Tow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
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By Towles, Amor2011., Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York's social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.
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