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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

Author : Robin Quinn

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 47,90 MB

Release : 2016-08-01

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 0750969261

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THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO. 'Brilliant – a terrific read' - Michael Aspel OBE 'The best book I've read all year' - Nigel Jones, editor, Devonshire Magazine Charles Deville Wells broke the bank at Monte Carlo – not once but ten times – winning the equivalent of millions in today's money. He followed up with a colossal bank fraud in Paris, and became Europe's most wanted criminal, hunted by British and French police and known in the press as 'Monte Carlo Wells – the man with 36 aliases'. Is he phenomenally lucky? Has he really invented an 'infallible' gambling system, as he claims? Or is he just an exceptionally clever fraudster?



Rich Man Poor Bank

Author : Mark J. Quann

Publisher :

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 47,4 MB

Release : 2017-12-16

Category :

ISBN : 9780578198415

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Mark Quann teaches you "What the Banks Don't want you to know about money." Learn how the banking system benefits by mis-educating the population with banking education rather than financial education. Learn how to cut your ties from the mega-banks--escape the debt matrix, and put your money hard at work for you instead of the banks. The message is clear, "You dont need a bank to save, you dont need a bank to borrow, and you dont need a bank to invest." Raise your financial IQ to invest in tax-free accounts, and even how the rich invest without risk.



Banker To The Poor

Author : Muhammad Yunus

Publisher : PublicAffairs

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 11,85 MB

Release : 2007-03-31

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1586485466

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The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.



The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell

Author : Joe Loya

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 20,52 MB

Release : 2005-10-18

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0060508930

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Joe Loya's idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end when his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In the two years before her death, Joe's extremely religious father became increasingly violent toward his two young sons-a contradiction that haunted Joe for years. Then, at age sixteen, Joe retaliated during a particularly severe beating and stabbed his father in the neck. For Joe, this was the starting point of a life of crime, and after holding up his twenty -- fourth bank, he was arrested and served seven years in prison. He continued his criminal behavior behind bars and was eventually placed in solitary confinement-the lowest of lows, even for convicts. Alone in his cell for two years, Joe was finally able to forgive his father, finding clarity, cultural insight, and redemption through writing.



Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins

Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Page : 430 pages

File Size : 17,57 MB

Release : 2004-11-09

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1576755126

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Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.



Lords of Finance

Author : Liaquat Ahamed

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 584 pages

File Size : 38,96 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781594201820

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Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.



Bank of Dave

Author : Dave Fishwick

Publisher : Random House

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 48,76 MB

Release : 2012-05-10

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1448131723

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This is the real story that inspired the Netflix film, Bank of Dave. Dave Fishwick is a self-made, straight-talking man from Burnley who hates the banks. Fed up with never-ending tales of greed and corruption, he sets out to prove that there is a different way of doing things - by opening his own bank to help inject much-needed life into local businesses. In his bid to set up a simple, no-nonsense bank that actually cares about its customers, Dave plans to use hundreds of thousands of pounds of his own money. His enterprise will offer his customers a far better rate of interest than they get on the high street; he will lend to struggling local businesses that the banks don't want to know about; and he aims to bring the Bank of Dave into profit within 180 days. If he succeeds, he'll give whatever he makes to charity. If he fails, he'll make a terrible loss and ruin his hard-earned reputation as a successful businessman. Can one man really take on the banking giants and make a real difference to local businesses and his community? Dave Fishwick certainly hopes so.



A Man You Can Bank On

Author : Derek Hansen

Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com

Page : 482 pages

File Size : 28,10 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1459623673

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Is it a crime to steal from bookies? Can you trust an ex-bank manager? Lambert Hampton is the man the Munni-Munni locals all turn to, and for good reason. This former bank manager helped them transform three million dollars - stolen from bookies by a gang of robbers - into a rescue package for their dying town. But now the day of reckoning has come. The crims want the money. The cops want the money. A rogue insurance investigator wants the money. And so do Australia's two most notorious hit men. In trying to save his town, Lambert is forced to risk everything - his life, the lives of the town folk, his own daughter, ten thousand barramundi and a really lovable Jack Russell.





Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Author : Mark Twain

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 18,30 MB

Release : 1994-09-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1440673896

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These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.