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#48 Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson

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You're Just So Young You Don't Know Anything About the World

I was very keen not to put any pressure on him or his sister and let them stand on their own two feet. Just really think about it's probably the most important things that we're ever going to do in our lives. Although sometimes it feels like our businesses are. I forgot all about those commodities until the real estate lending crash sent the financial world into this race several years later. Suddenly the commodities were all anybody was talking about. Subprime mortgages. Many experts placed a lot of the blame for the crash on subprime and Goldman Sachs were fined $550 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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