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O'Rourke, P. J,

None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you / P. J. O'Rourke. - London : Grove Press UK, 2018. - xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

P. J. O'Rourke channels his extensive experience of making fun of terrible things in despicable places and applies it to somewhere even worse - Wall Street. After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke 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 can't 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.' He proposes 'A Way to Raise Taxes That We'll All Love' - a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on 'Unnovations', which asks, '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.

ISBN: 9781611856262 1611856264 9781611854961 1611854962

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Money--Humor.
Banks and banking--Humor.
Investments--Humor.
American wit and humor.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Humor.

Dewey Class. No.: 332