Bernard Jones And The Temple Of Mammon Available Now

Business Wire, March 14, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86088) has announced the addition of "Bernard Jones and the Temple of Mammon - The continuing diary of a cantankerous investor" to their offering.

In this second volume of the Bernard Jones Diaries, retired civil servant Bernard Jones is approaching his 64th birthday. Making money through investing remains as elusive as ever, though his overbearing and over-sexed wife Eunice finds no trouble spending it. Hell's Bells, the share club started at the Ring o'Bells pub by a coterie of dubious acquaintances, seems to be a better forum for gawping at barmaids and consuming pork scratchings than it is for an elevated debate over price earnings ratios and dividend yields.

As ever, Bernard's family, Guardian-reading schoolteacher son Brian, dopey daughter Jemima and malevolent grandchild Digby (a.k.a. The Antichrist) all seem to stand in the way of his reaching financial nirvana. Worst of all is Bernard's dotty mother Dot, who holds in her palsied hands an inheritance that can make or break the family.

Bernard is an emblem for the thousands of small investors whose stories of struggle and persistence are never told, an operating prophet for those weighed down by a demanding spouse-to-earnings ratio.

About the Author

Freelance journalist Nick Louth has a monthly column in the Financial Times, writes the weekly Bernard Jones Investment Diary in the Investors Chronicle, and has two columns a week on the MSN website.

During 12 years working for Reuters, Nick Louth worked in New York, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in many of the world's major newspapers, from USA Today to the Wall Street Journal. He has interviewed some of the world's most powerful executives, from Microsoft's Bill Gates to Jack Welch of General Electric, and he has appeared on Reuters Television, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

Nick's first book, 'Funny Money: The Investment Diary of Bernard Jones', was published in February 2007.

Contents:

1. Mr Twenty Per Cent 2. Alternative Investment 3. Gales Of Fortune 4. Private Iniquity 5. Bounced Czech 6. Celandine Sunk 7. Gordon Pulls Rank 8. Cosmetic Surgery 9. Courting Trouble 10. Knuckle Sandwich 11. Hacking Jacket 12. Carrot And Stick 13. The Temple Of Mammon 14. Bull In A China Shop 15. Earnings Guidance 16. Kwik Not Saved 17. Party Pooper 18. Password Bingo 19. Racquet And Reckitt 20. Emerald Isle Trial 21. Safe As Houses 22. Carbon Economising 23. Hung Out To Dry 24. Foot And Mouth 25. The Toby Lifeboat 26. Sub-Prime Recipe 27. Sunday Sport 28. Cynthia Shackled 29. Destiny With Pears

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