Sheila Bair
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Rock and Brock may be twins, but they are as different as two twins can be. One day, their grandpa offers them a plan--for ten straight weeks on Saturday he will give them each one dollar. But there is a catch! "Listen now, for here's the trick, each buck you save, I'll match it quick. But spend it, there's no extra dough, so save your cash, and watch it grow." Rock is excited--there are all sorts of things he can buy for one dollar! So each week...
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"Princess Persephone was cold in her castle on freezing Ganymede. So, when Aluminum Jim came calling to sell her tin sheets to nail onto the exterior walls to keep out the cold, Persephone was only to happy to agree to a loan, and sign the contract without reading it. What could she do when the tin sheets didn't work, she couldn't repay the loan, and Jim claimed the castle?"--
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Billy wants the nice things that his friends have: an umbrella for when it rains, a solar-powered fan, a purple-striped wig, neon-green shoes, and an anchovy grill. But he can't pay back the loan that he took from Selling Seal to pay for everything. What will happen?
5) Shark scam
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Two sharks convince giant tortoise Arlene to invest in their business, and Arlene takes the bait but soon finds out it was a Ponzi scheme. Includes information on Ponzi schemes.
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The Nelly Longhair doll is on sale at Murphy's Toys for ten dollars. But, Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business, she's sure she can make money. But, at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! If five of her friends will invest one dollar each, she'll have enough. Will Isabel be able to pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll?
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Animals hoping to make an easy profit on a price bubble find out what happens when supply catches up to demand.
After Arlene the giant tortoise walks down the aisle wearing a crown of daisies, everyone wants some of the beautiful blooms for themselves. Florists sell out quickly, but Sly Seal has a daisy stash that allows him to drive up the price. Soon his customers start buying flowers from each other at even higher markups, hoping to sell them...
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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 mortgages and piled many of the mortgage-related securities...
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
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[2015]
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"In 2008, America went through a terrible financial crisis, and we are still suffering the consequences. Families lost their homes, had to give up their pets, and struggled to pay for food and medicine. Businesses didn't have money to buy equipment or hire and pay workers. Millions of people lost their jobs and their life savings. More than 100,000 businesses went bankrupt ... [Former FDIC chairman Bair] describes the many ways in which a broken system...
13) Daisy bubble
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Albert Whitman & Company
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2023.
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When giant tortoise Arlene's daisy wreath turns into an island fad, animals from all over scurry to buy and sell trendy flower.
