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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words

, then left it in 2016, around the time of the hack, for reasons he never explained. On social media, he and Morgan posted photos from business class flights to Hong Kong and Mexico. In Morgan’s TikTok videos, he often seems like a grudging participant. “You keep filming me, expecting something to happen

Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World

by Jesse Krieger · 2 Jun 2014 · 189pp · 52,741 words

the entire year and been handed the keys to the Presidential suite in more 5 star hotels than I can count. I took over 60 business class flights, visiting 39 cities in 20 countries across 5 continents. I’ve played with and fed lions, taken a tiger cub for his morning exercise, swam

The Firm

by Duff McDonald · 1 Jun 2014 · 654pp · 120,154 words

the private sector clients in advance. The article also highlighted the means of achieving influence, including the consultants’ spending lavishly on an NHS regulator—including business class flights to New York, a five-star hotel stay, and a lavish banquet. The regulator? David Bennett, a former McKinsey consultant himself. Several consultants have passed

The Knife's Edge

by Stephen Westaby · 14 May 2019 · 259pp · 85,514 words

patient. The third was away at a conference, one of those academically destitute commercial meetings at a glamorous resort paid for by the sponsor, with business-class flights and all the rest. As a gullible young consultant I had enjoyed these trips, but it eventually wears thin – tedious airports, buckets of alcohol and

The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

by Laura Shin · 22 Feb 2022 · 506pp · 151,753 words

dollars’ worth of ether. A smart sale of about $700 ETH helped him maintain his lifestyle of constant travel, which had been upgraded to mostly business class flights and comfortable Airbnbs. Having reached financial independence, he never needed to worry about money again. Otherwise his lifestyle hadn’t changed. He traveled with a

End of the World Blues

by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 24 Sep 2006 · 445pp · 114,134 words

be back in a moment.” “Sure,” said Kate, settling herself down. Kit was able to use the lounge because Kate O’Mally had paid for Business Class flights for the both of them. Having found herself a copy of yesterday’s Mail, Kate was preparing to tut over some celebrity outrage and sip

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope · 17 Sep 2018 · 354pp · 110,570 words

was another attraction: Brunner earned more than 1 million Swiss francs a year, with more in bonuses, received stipends for a driver and multiple free business-class flights home, and enjoyed tax rates of only 15 percent. But he also had a problem. The global financial crisis had forced the British government to

Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together

by Philippe Legrain · 14 Oct 2020 · 521pp · 110,286 words

a Venezuelan family planning to seek refuge from their country’s economic collapse in neighbouring Colombia. He may be an Indian IT consultant boarding a business-class flight from Hyderabad to Houston. She may be a Chinese student setting off to university in Australia. They may be Pacific Islanders seeking a new home

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story

by Greg Smith · 21 Oct 2012 · 304pp · 99,836 words

banking find traveling ten thousand miles around the world to have a few meetings to be a chore. But it never got old for me. Business-class flights with wine and sashimi at thirty thousand feet. Ritz Carlton or the Four Seasons? Three-star dinners with a $150 per-person budget when dining

Bad Pharma: How Medicine Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It

by Ben Goldacre · 1 Jan 2012 · 402pp · 129,876 words

through the PMCPA website shows that the self-regulation guidelines on sensible limits are regularly broken. There’s the odd visit to a strip club, business-class flights around the world, golf hotels and so on.68 One recent case concerns an unwise conference feedback document from Cephalon, describing how the company paid