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How Trusted Professionals Get-Away With Around Half Of Your Life's Savings "America is not going insane" "It is living in pain" Herein are a few causes of that pain. Here are the people who play financial games above our laws. The organizations that can drain the economy of the cost of a Category 5 Hurricane...repeatedly. Those who harm our shared society as much or more than every other criminal offense in the land...combined. This book tells why many North Americans can not only no longer have nice things. Some can no longer even have nice dreams. Many will grow up in a disturbed nation, without even knowing where their retirement security went...nor where the nation's economic prosperity went. A glimpse within some of the greatest economic drains in the land, all of which are done invisibly by professionals. Professionals that society once could trust.
When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author's heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? Who made the first bouillon soup? What do 12 percent of all winners of the Booker Prize have in common? What didn't happen on Thomas Carlyle's famous wedding night? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius? Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topic imaginable from author advances to Civil War literature to Victorian sex to odd things eaten by literary characters (think Patrick Bateman's girlfriend in American Psycho). Other fascinating insights include the fact that the number one title among American Civil War soldiers was Les Miserables. This is the ideal anthology of fascinating information and trivia for all book lovers.
Revised and Updated Over 6 million Canadians control more than $500 billion in RRSP and RRIF investments . . . or do they? Do RRSP owners support an industry that feeds on the fear and ignorance of Canadians ill-prepared to manage their retirement assets? While claiming professional status, financial advisors are salespeople often more closely aligned with mutual fund marketers and bond dealers than with their own clients. What's more, the industry insists on a policy of self-regulation, unhindered by direct government supervision. The Naked Investor sounds a wake-up call for Canadians. Through real-life stories, it exposes the dark side of the investment industry, revealing the tactics of greedy brokers and advisors, voracious banks and mutual fund operators, and outright embezzlers. Written with sly humour, The Naked Investor will disturb both an industry that appears more focused on building wealth for itself than for its clients and RRSP investors whose trust too often is misplaced—with devastating consequences.
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This book traces the ancestors, descendants and related branches of "Hamilton Cowen [1805-1888], his wife Eliza Greenaway [1805-1885], and his son-in-law John Conn [1825-1902]. Born in County Armagh, Ireland, they [immigrated] to Ontario, Canada in the first half of the nineteenth century."--Pref. Descendants live in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada, Ireland, Australia and the United States.