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Richistan - Robert Frank

Description: ISBN 0749928654 / Genre: Finance / Business / Career / Author: Robert Frank / Paperback / 288 Pages / Book is published 2008-05-01 by ... more

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Newest Review: ... a million of that, it's this currency they're using - so no chance of sneaking off to Thailand or similar to be a millionaire ... more

... in their weaker currencies.) That retiring at 50 thing? Not for the rich of the 21st century, many of whom have a compulsion to keep working, investing, donating, finding something with which to occupy their time even if the rest of us can't imagine why they don't scale things back and spend the odd year drifting around the Caribbean in their 400 ft yachts (the minimum for the jet set of today - anything around the 100 ft mark is little more than a dinghy). The number of rich peeps is growing at an inordinate r...more

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Richistan - Robert Frank: ♫ If I Were A Rich Girl... ♫ (737 words)
by - written on 23/11/08 (Very useful, 227 readings)
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I thought, at first, that this book might be a bit dry. I feared it might be boring, repetitive, and filled with facts everyone already knows from flicking through newspapers, reading interviews with big wigs and watching the odd reality TV show. But then I spotted the two hotties in string bikinis, lounging on a yacht on the front cover (see above), and I began to think it might be quite a fun, entertaining book after all. "Imagine a country populated with nothing but millionaires. Let's call it Richi$tan..." The book starts out by getting straight to the point and defining what we mean when we talk about the rich. Last century people ... Read the complete review