Meltdown
Greed, Scandal, and the Collapse of Credit Suisse
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The incredible story of a once-venerable Swiss bank that produced a litany of financial scandals and whose collapse reveals the amorality at the heart of the global banking system.
Credit Suisse was a 166-year-old bastion of global banking. But a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, much dirtier reality. From its sterile Zurich headquarters, Credit Suisse banked dictators and drug dealers, hid stolen Nazi gold, and helped corrupt bankers fleece the firm's own clients of billions of dollars. Its top executives oversaw a global operation that laundered money for autocrats; they hired spies to track one another through the cobbled streets of the Swiss financial capital; and they helped clients hide their money from the world's tax authorities. This is the story of a tawdry total meltdown of one of the biggest, most influential, and most scandal-ridden banks on the planet.
Duncan Mavin is uniquely sourced to tell the story of Credit Suisse's scandal-ridden demise, with dozens of inside-the-room contacts. The bank's collapse was the biggest shock to the financial system since the Financial Crisis of 2008, and sparked a media frenzy. But only Duncan has had access to key sources within the bank's executive suite—including former CEOs—and the inner circle that brings this critical, rollicking story to life.
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In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill Capital collapsed, going into administration. As it unravelled, a multibillion-dollar scandal emerged that would shake the very foundations of the British political system, drawing in swiss bankers, global CEOs, and world leaders, including former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. At the centre was an Australian financier named Lex Greensill. Pyramid of Lies charts the meteoric rise and spectacular downfall of Greensill and his company.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Could not quite get into it
- De Andrew M. en 05-29-23
De: Duncan Mavin
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1929
- The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
- De: Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Duración: 17 h
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In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin. With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes listeners inside the chaos of the crash.
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Space to Grow
- Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
- De: Brendan Rosseau, Matthew Weinzierl
- Narrado por: William Sarris
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a revolution. A wave of companies led by gutsy entrepreneurs are unlocking opportunities that fire the imagination. No, it's not hotels on Mars or day trips to orbit (yet), but it's an awe-inspiring transformation driven by innovative technologies, creative approaches, hard work, and—for the first time—market forces.
De: Brendan Rosseau, y otros
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The Money Trap
- Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
- De: Alok Sama
- Narrado por: Raza Jaffrey
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world—SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey featuring his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder, Masayoshi Son, a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as “the crazy guy who bet on the future” and whose mission is “happiness for everyone.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally a book I can recommend
- De Fadi Awni Abu-Shamat en 01-22-25
De: Alok Sama
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
- De: Linda Gordon
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinizes the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s.
De: Linda Gordon
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Gambling Man
- The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
- De: Lionel Barber
- Narrado por: Keong Sim
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In Gambling Man, the first Western biography of Son, the self-professed unicorn hunter, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A deep look into the life of a man who doesn’t quit!
- De JoeShon Monroe en 04-22-25
De: Lionel Barber
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Looking at Women Looking at War
- A War and Justice Diary
- De: Victoria Amelina
- Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a children’s book author.
De: Victoria Amelina
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The Thinking Machine
- Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
- De: Stephen Witt
- Narrado por: Stephen Witt
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
In June of 2024, thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of video game equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer. Essential to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good, it read like a movie, I bet it becomes one.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-12-25
De: Stephen Witt
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The Price of Power
- How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party
- De: Michael Tackett
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In The Price of Power, award-winning journalist Michael Tackett pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential figures to ever set foot in the American Senate, offering you an intimate, personal view of his life and career. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell’s early life, his formative battle with polio as a young child, and details his forty-plus-year career as one of the Senate’s most impactful leaders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Daisy Mae en 03-22-25
De: Michael Tackett
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Why We’re Getting Poorer
- A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It
- De: Cahal Moran
- Narrado por: Cahal Moran
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we haven’t found a way to separate houses from land in our policies? And did you know that far from globalisation being a mystical force, certain countries and currencies have dominated the way it has played out – to their own advantage?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An accessible explanation of why things feel so broken
- De Bruce en 03-20-25
De: Cahal Moran
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King Dollar
- The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
- De: Paul Blustein
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world's dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based monetary units will replace the dollar. Foreign policy hawks warn that China's renminbi poses a lethal threat to the greenback. And sound money zealots predict that mounting US debt and inflation will surely erode the dollar's value to the point of irrelevancy.
De: Paul Blustein
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- De: Brooke Harrington
- Narrado por: Jennifer Walden
- Duración: 4 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative
- De Seattle mom en 03-02-25
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- De: Will Bardenwerper
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hit the nail on the head
- De BeagleMom en 04-09-25
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House of Huawei
- The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
- De: Eva Dou
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world’s most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies’ female scion, sparked an international hostage standoff, poured fuel on the US-China trade war, and suddenly thrust the mysterious company into the global spotlight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good description of how China understood the critical importance of telecom technology before other countries in the west
- De Juan C. Rodriguez en 02-19-25
De: Eva Dou
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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Birth of America’s First Cosmpolitan City - Brilliantly Told
- De Judy en 04-25-25
De: Russell Shorto
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Red Scare
- Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
- De: Clay Risen
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing narrator
- De DB en 04-19-25
De: Clay Risen
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It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time
- The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote
- De: Bruce Vilanch
- Narrado por: Bruce Vilanch
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever put on television—legendarily bad productions. It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time is a lifetime reflection of what Vilanch has experienced, learned, forgotten, dismissed, and embraced in decades of working in show business
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5 out of 5 stars
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For show biz lovers
- De Sarasota en 03-07-25
De: Bruce Vilanch