None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
O'Rourke, P. J.2018
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In his latest book, P. J. O'Rourke takes forty-five years of experience making fun of terrible things in the most awful places in the world and applies it to a place that's even worse?Wall Street, and the whole wide world of finance. Delving into the world of big money has all the excitement of being a war correspondent with only two-thirds of the danger. In None of My Business, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. ORourke takes on his scariest subjects yet - business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there's a book that can do that, you shouldn't buy any books because you probably cant read.) P.J.s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other and details the economic lessons he learned in global combat zones. P.J. has his eye on the present as well as the past. He proposes A Way to Raise Taxes That Well All Love - a 200% tax on celebrities. He explores the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on Unnovations, which begs the question, The Internet - whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other? He misunderstands bitcoin (which seems like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club). He closes with a fanciful short story about the morning that P.J. wakes up and finds that all the world's goods and services are free! This is P.J. at his finest, a book not to be missed.
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Imprint:
London : Grove Press, 2018.
Collation:
xi, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Foreword: Why I'm not rich and you aren't either -- Section I: How I learned economics by watching people try to kill each other -- Secret II: Money and banking -- Section III: Mutant capitalism -- Setion IV: The transition -- Section V: Consumption -- Section VI: Random walk
ISBN:
9781611854961
Dewey class:
332
Language:
English
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BRN:
344077
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 332 ORO | Available |