This book is a financier's view of modern economics. It deals critically with the difference betweeen the creation and redistribution of wealth and shows how some of the wealthiest people in today's economies have grown rich without creating any wealth. It analyses government economic policy and in particular the way in which interest rates are manipulated and money is printed and devalued without any sanction from parliament. It shows how profits can be made without any new wealth creation only to be followed by corresponding losses several years later frequently in different parts of the...