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In early 2012, Colorado joined with 48 other states and federal agencies reached an historic $25.0 billion settlement with the five major banks regarding their foreclosure practices. Colorado was awarded $51.17 million. The relief provided for under this settlement was designed to slow the foreclosure crisis and boost the housing market.

"A direct, incisive guide for consumers to know how to protect and handle their money in the face of a financial crisis"--

The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew husband at all. Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating...

Celebrated economic policy maker and political theorist Robert B. Reich argues that the nation's 2008 economic collapse is the result of an increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top--and a middle class that had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living. To ensure that prosperity is widely shared, he continues, requires the implementation of a much broader safety net for the middle class financed by higher marginal...

Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.

The residents of the county of Tipperary deal in their own ways with the financial collapse of the Irish economy.

This myth-shattering book reveals the methods Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help to make sense of the present and prepare for the future.--Book jacket.

"A practical guide to preparing for the next phase of the financial meltdownFrom the authors who were the first to predict Phase I of our current economic downturn-in their landmark 2006 book, America's Bubble Economy-comes their insightful sequel discussing their predictions for the next phase of the Bubble Economy.It may seem like the worst has come and gone, but it hasn't. With their proven track record of accurate predictions-which most financial...

Thirty-five-year-old bond trader Nick Farmer is burned out on the nightlife of excess and struggles to find the right path in his personal and professional life.

In 1928 New York City, a young girl named Samantha White is sent away by her cold stepmother, only to return after the stock market has crashed to find her father gone and her ruthless stepmother after her inheritance.