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Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 192 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Despite clear danger and explicit warnings, the United States of America-distracted by short-term challenges and its own political dysfunction-is steaming toward its own collision, one with long-term debt." Philanthropist, businessman, and former secretary of commerce Peter G. Peterson argues that we can no longer ignore the long-term debt challenges facing our country, because our economic future depends on it. The gross federal debt now exceeds...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her best friend is accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace, Simi Chopra, to clear her friend’s name and collect the substantial reward, transforms a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew with the help of a mysterious man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([14] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers beware: who's ripping you off now?--what you must know about the new rules of mortgage and credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Three powerful, aggressive, and 100% legal ways to improve your credit rating--starting right now!"--Resource description page.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([12] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers beware: who's ripping you off now?--what you must know about the new rules of mortgage and credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Nine practical ways to raise your score--quickly and easily!"--Resource description page.
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they examine the commercialization of Christmas in America while following the group on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse - the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt. Delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America's mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides key principles of both macro and microeconomics, discussing such issues as why budget deficits matter, what the Federal Reserve actually does, and why health insurance is so expensive.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
[DVD].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A terrible doom falls over the house of Bastable! Widower Richard Bastable faces financial ruin if he cannot complete his new invention, a refrigeration machine. With creditors at their doorstep, his five imaginative and michievous children team up "to restore the fortunes of our house."
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of handbags and haircuts and discreet silver watches. You'd never guess, at the glamorous kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that Faiza's childhood was spent following her parents round the Tooting Cash'n'Carry. When her husband...
89) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is the new priest at the Church of St. Dominic in a working-class New York City neighborhood. He fails to make a good first impression with crusty old Father Fitzgibbon, who doesn't approve of O'Malley's golf playing, baseball game attending, or fishing. But O'Malley starts spiffing up the church and its neighborhood: dealing with the church mortgage, which is in arrears, and straightening out the street gangs by getting the boys to...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is widely understood that student loan assistance has inflated college tuition, student debt, and lender profits. Less often recognized is that these outcomes were intended. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer uncovers the history of federal student loans, showing that they were designed to appease constituencies opposed to affordable higher education"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([10] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Homebuyers beware: who's ripping you off now?--what you must know about the new rules of mortgage and credit (ISBN: 9780137020164) by Carolyn Warren. Don't put up with the financial services industry's rip-offs: learn how to get an amazingly great deal on your next mortgage!"--Resource description page.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist and social media consultant presents a personal finance guide, based on her own experience with debt, as well as her budget balancing issues, that will show women how to live fabulous, yet frugal, lives.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department were in thrall to the interests of big banks. In vivid detail he reveals how they failed to hold the banks accountable even as they disregarded major job losses and refused to help struggling homeowners.
98) Little Dorrit
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 445
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls; this is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
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