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A Miscellany of Money Madness
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This work is a miscellany of the best (or worst!) examples of consumption, corruption, greed, vanity, waste and just mind-boggling stupidity, including: the GBP 1m chest-hair insurance policy from Lloyds; the Alsatian dog with assets of GBP 90m; the GBP 1,700 glass of Cognac; the $1,000 omelette; GBP 75 paid by a church for planning permission to erect a cross after the Council decided it was advertising; the hamster-lined fur coat made for GBP 1,750...and over 1,100 more examples of money madness.Gift-book and Miscellany market: everyone working in the world of finance, everyone interested in their own and other people's money (who isn't?!).
Andrew Holmes is a writer, management consultant and Managing Partner of Paricint LLP. He has consulted with many household names in the UK and overseas and has written 13 books including The Chameleon Consultant, Commoditization and the Strategic Response and the best-selling humour titles Pains on Trains, Pains in the Office and Pains in Public
A word from the Editor of Money Week; Introduction - our relationship with money; Celebrities and their money; Earning power; Government waste and profligacy; Hi Ho... it's off to work we go; I fought the law; Literary lottery; Doh!; Odd one out; See you in court!; The price of exclusivity; The way we live; Under the hammer; You've got to be in it to win it; It's for charity; Cashing in; For the ladies; Bricks and mortar; At the Box Office.
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