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. ...

Do you want to cut your bills without cutting back? Are you fed up with being ripped off? Do you want more money in your pocket without changing your lifestyle? What we all need is detailed no-nonsense Money Saving advice about organising credit cards finding the cheapest deals for utilities getting the best mortgage deals & how to haggle with every shopkeeper
- in other words how to make sure we're not wasting money. With 100 extra Money Saving pages in this edition of the bestselling The Money Diet Martin Lewis shows you how to be canny with your finances & provides clear-cut advice on how to pay bills ways to cut spending which banks to use & how to choose the best deals on an even greater range of products including:
- mobile phones
- package holidays
- pensions credit cards & insurance
- books CDs & DVDs.




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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. ...

In direct response to the interest & questions raised by readers of the Moneyless Man in which Mark Boyle tells of his first year of operating completely without spending earning saving or using money the Moneyless Manifesto develops on the themes of Boyle's first book in order to look deeper in to the culture of modern economics & provide a how-to on the logistics of going moneyless or at least reducing dependency on money. Thought provoking in the first instance readers will also find it incredibly practical & useful. At first an in-depth exploration of the philosophy & theory behind moneyless living; combining deep ecology with economics to portray what Boyle believes to be radically new perspectives on some of the vital
- yet oft unquestioned
- pillars of economic theory. Boyle then looks at the perceived obstacles to moneyless living
- ranging from addiction to habits to access-to-land issues
- & lays out a new map for navigating these roadblocks. The third phase of the book offers a menu of solutions for those wishing to go moneyless or simply diversify their personal economy to make it more resilient to external shocks. Regardless of whether you live in the country or city & depending on the level of technology you like to use this portion of the book makes suggestions to address food shelter sex labour & materials transport education health & much more. The Moneyless Manifesto is complemented by contributions from many other well-known thinkers & doers in
- co-originator of Permaculture David Holmgren author of Sacred Economics Charles Eisenstein forest gardening pioneer & author Martin Crawford author of Wild Drugs Zoe Hawes wild food forager Fergus Drennan plus many more.




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