Welcome to the murky world of moneylenders in modern-day Britain. Prepare yourself to enter a cold hard brutal environment where a loan od GBP10 000 can turn into a debt of GBP100 000 in a matter of weeks. This is the true story of one family man who found himself trapped in a finanical meltdown that was beyond his worst nightmares. Jason Shifrin was brought up in a happy solid family where his hard-working father provided everything a middle-class family could ever need. Business tycoon Alan Sugar was a childhood family friend who Jason dreamed of emulating in the high-risk arena of big business. When Jasons early attempts at becoming a self-made tycoon failed it led to him spending half his adult life running from the mob after getting into debt to gangster moneylenders to the tune of almost ten million pounds. As a result Jason leads a bizarre double life as a loving husband & father while also having to be the ultimate ducker & diver afraid of his own shadow in case a bullet has his name on it. In order to survive Jason even hired the services of one of the countrys most notorious criminals to keep all the other gangsters off his back. Money Money Money presents a portrait of a middle-class Jewish boy trapped in a deadly world of violent trigger-happy criminals. ...

William D. Cohan's Money & Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World" is a chronicle of the most successful iconic bank on Wall Street from the firm's founding in 1869 to the present day. Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks
- & most businesses
- want to emulate; the firm with the best talent the best clients the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the ' Goldman way'? William D. Cohan has gained unprecedented access to Goldman's inner circle
- both on & off the record. In an astonishing story of clashing egos backstabbing sex scandals private investigators court cases & government cabals he reveals what really lies beneath their gold-plated image. " The best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts". (" Economist"). " Startling.. .lifts the lid on Goldman's pivotal role in the meltdown". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Cohan portrays a firm that has grown so large & hungry that it's no longer long-term greedy but short-term vicious. & that's the wonder
- & horror
- of Goldman Sachs". (" Businessweek"). " Cohan's book tells of bitter power struggles & business cock-ups". (" Guardian"). "A definitive account of the most profitable & influential investment bank of the modern era". (" The New York Times Book Review"). William D. Cohan was an award-winning investigative journalist before embarking on a seventeen-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. His first book " The Last Tycoons about Lazard" won the 2007 " Financial Times"/ Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & was a " New York Times" bestseller. His second book " House of Cards" also a bestseller is an account of the last days of Bear Stearns & Co."




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Many people have watched or read The Secret" & believe that you can ask the Universe for any material thing you would like & the " Law of Attraction" will deliver it to you. But of course its not as simple as that. You have to change the way that you think if you want to change your world & in this special deck Esther & Jerry Hicks help you learn how to align yourself & focus your energy to manifest prosperity. Learn how to create abundance by: focusing on what you want in your life & not on what you dont have; seeing yourself as wealthy not poor; visualising yourself as enjoying the object or lifestyle that you dream of Abrahams powerful techniques will teach you what prosperity truly is & enable you to use the Law of Attraction to bring this energy into your own life." ...

Many people have watched or read The Secret & believe that you can ask the universe for any material thing you would like & the law of attraction will deliver it to you. But of course it's not as simple as that. You have to change the way that you think if you want to change your world. In this extraordinary book Esther & Jerry Hicks outline the secret behind the Law of Attraction. They explain clearly how to focus your energy to manifest prosperity. Learn how to create abundance by: focusing on what you want in your life & not on what you don't have; seeing yourself as wealthy not poor; & visualising yourself as enjoying the object or lifestyle that you dream of Abraham's powerful techniques will teach you what prosperity truly is & enable you to use the Law of Attraction to bring this energy into your own life. ...

While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at Salomon Brothers he began his second career as a journalist & helped to record a real-life 'bonfire of the vanities'. Not afraid of interviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealing the treachery & deception behind some of the biggest financial deals ever made in The Money Culture Lewis provides a contemporary record of the ups & downs of the world's money markets & the rise & fall of some of the larger-than-life personalities. ...

What happens in the City has never affected us more. In this excellent guide now fully revised & updated leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines the scandals & the jargon to explain the nuts & bolts of the financial system. What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which are the institutions that really matter? Why is it we need the Money Machine
- & what happens when it crashes? Coggan provides clear & concise answers & shows why we should all be more familiar with a system we so intimately depend upon.
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The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics " Pawns in the Game" & " Empire of the City" which present the thesis that the wars & revolutions of modern times have been engineered by an English-speaking finance oligarchy to perpetuate their balance of power over the world. They are the power behind the British throne & the American government. Behind a mask of liberal democracy their method is subversion destruction of the old world order & the humiliation of all rival power centres. The money power controls world politics behind the scenes & in full view. It is a corrupt cynical oligarchy that buys all the governments it can
- with their own funds. This power of money also stares us in the face as a relentless effort to determine every aspect of our family life work & values magnetising everything. In " Pawns in the Game " Wm. Guy Carr sets out his famous Three World Wars scenario. WWI was planned to topple the Russian & German empires & set up the conflict between Fascism & Bolshevism. WWII was to eliminate Germany as a world power & set up Israel instead. WWIII which we are now leading up to is planned to mutually annihilate Zionism & Islam in a global conflict that bankrupts the entire world ending in absolute rule by the Money Masters. Carr emphasises the role of the Illuminati in carrying out this plot while Knuths " Empire of the City" focuses on the British Empire & its balance of power intrigues."
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Practical & life-changing THE MONEY SECRET will totally revolutionise your attitude to money & show how it can either be the source of freedom & happiness or a burden of guilt & debt. When you have finished this powerful story you will want to cut up your credit cards forever & rid yourself of the power of the banks & lenders & advertisers who dupe us all into a spending frenzy based on false promises & slick delusions. As well as offering solutions this book will challenge the status quo & question current spending habits. Rich or poor we have all at some time felt in despair about money & its power over our lives. Rob Parsons shows a new way forward which will change your life focus your priorities & put you back in control. ...

This is The New York Times best-selling book behind the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt Jonah Hill & Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opening this autumn Moneyball is the story of the Oakland As general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt). He has an epiphany: all conventional baseball wisdom is wrong. Reinventing his team on a budget he needs to outsmart the richer teams. Joining with Ivy Leaguer Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) they recruit bargain players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base scoring runs & winning games. Theyll either be the laughing stock of baseball or its vindicated underdogs. Moneyball is a Columbia Pictures release directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) from the screenplay written by Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York) & Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) & produced by Michael De Luca The Social Network) Rachael Horovitz (Grey Gardens) & Scott Rudin (The Social Network). ...

Imagine living for an entire year without money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that & here is his extraordinary & compelling story. How do friends & family react? What do you eat? How do you wash? Mark Boyle finds out the hard way & explores the troubling consequences of our obsession with money. Encountering cuttlefish toothpaste seasonal foods paper made out of mushrooms & compost toilets Boyle puts the fun into frugality & reveals some indispensable tips for economical & environmentally friendly living. Heart-warming & witty The Moneyless Man will inspire you to question what really matters in life. ...