The Midas Touch

This ìs a book about money and people. Money has long made the world go round but now itself goes round the world, moving ever faster and in ever greater quantities. The last decade has been one of unprecedented changes with huge shifts of wealth and attitudes, But, post-Reagan and following the Crash of '87, the mood is changing again. Greed and display are less fashionable. The US debt, Japan's surplus and the plight of Third World economies have led to jittery, volatile markets and furrowed brows among the Porsche-flaunting classes. Using in-depth interviews and historical comparisons, The Midas Touch describes with Anthony Sampson’s characteristic clarity, the anatomy of today's world of money. ‘Sampson writes about money in a way that puts many a more specialised financial journalist to shame. ‘Many worthwhile and humane perceptions’