9. Buy a piece of paper with lots of promises on it, break it up and sell it to lots of other people, who will then break it up, mix it around and sell it on to lots more people, who will then break it up again, mix it with some other bits of paper and sell it on to lots of other people....everyone's a winner! What was that, Mr Darling? You say you tried that and it didn't work? Oh.
12. Buy a 100K cr*ppy St George's cross car flags from a manufacturer in China for 50p each. Wait for England to qualify for a major footie championship, then sell to all & sundry at £1-50 a pop. Repeat process 10 times
Et voila - worked for a mate of mine (not sure of the exact figures but it was something like this)
13. Dream up a fantastic business idea, charm the pants of a group of wealthy private investors, tapping them up for £500K each, start business, pay yourself handsomely for a couple of years, run business into the ground, naff off to Australia, repeat process (another mate)
Become a maths/finance whizz-kid and join/found a hedge-fund or private-equity company which deals only with the super-rich and invests on their behalf, operating from an office in Mayfair while being "based" for tax reasons in the Cayman Islands. Make that a billion, not a million.
