Pennyworth Books

The corruptions and criminality of money flow in and around Wall-Street is amazing and there is always someone ready to line their pockets with other people’s money, big money and zip it away in some quick electronic transaction, moving it around and around until it cannot be found, or can it?

Where does all that money go, it doesn’t just vanish and even if the people behind the theft move themselves and expatriate and go into hiding, well there is always a money trail.

Unfortunately, some times that money trail and the electronic paper trail that is attached to it moves in mysterious ways making it very difficult to track, it does not mean it cannot be done, but things do get complicated and that is a real problem indeed.

If you have ever heard of such stuff, but do not quite understand how all this works, then perhaps you should read some…

Why is it that every ten years we have a meltdown? In 1987 the stock market crashed and the real estate died in 1993. In later 1999 the Internet bubble burst, then yet another recession, which we recovered from nicely, but oh, wait, it’s 2008 and whammo, not so great.

Do you ever wonder what causes crashes, how all this stuff happens behind the scenes of what creative genius cooks up some scheme that ends up taking down the financial economies of the world? Sometimes, I like to recommend a few fiction books for folks who wonder what the heck is going on.

You see, no one can really write about the reality, lest they be sued or worse. So, those in the know write fictitious financial fiasco thrillers. One of my favorite by one of my most favorite financial doom and gloom authors is:

“Zero Coupon” by Paul Erman; Forge Publishing, a division…

We don’t really think about the meaning of flowers today whenever we give them, we just pick out a pretty flower and we give it to someone but actually the real meaning behind flowers and their secret language has been lost.

The Victorians used flowers as a discreet form of communication. During the 18th century sending flower messages based on a Turkish secret language of flowers became popular. This was known as sending a ‘Persian Salaam’ – a coded bouquet to reveal your feelings of love or attraction. The Victorians became very knowledgeable in flower language and chose and arranged their bouquets carefully.

Of course all flowers deal with love and appreciation in some way or another, but their color or arrangement can mean different things.

For example, back then red roses stood for love as they do today, but yellow roses stood for jealousy. If you sent yellow carnations to someone, it…