This work is a miscellany of the best (or worst!) examples of consumption, corruption, greed, vanity, waste and just mind-boggling stupidity, including: the GBP 1m chest-hair insurance policy from Lloyds; the Alsatian dog with assets of GBP 90m; the GBP 1,700 glass of Cognac; the $1,000 omelette; GBP 75 paid by a church for planning permission to erect a cross after the Council decided it was advertising; the hamster-lined fur coat made for GBP 1,750...and over 1,100 more examples of money madness.Gift-book and Miscellany market: everyone working in the world of finance, everyone interested in their own and other people's money (who isn't?!).