TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnston,David
TI  - The fine print: how big companies use "plain English" to rob you blind 
SN  - 1591843588 : HRD
AV  - HF5681.I7 J64 2012
U1  - 364.16/8 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Portfolio/Penguin
KW  - Invoices
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Corrupt practices
N1  - Includes index; Author's note -- Jacking up prices -- Corporate power unlimited -- Buffett buys a railroad -- Railroaded -- In twenty-ninth place and fading fast -- Profits upkeep commissions -- "We lead the industry with integrity" -- Paying other people's taxes -- Investors beware -- Playing with fire -- Draining pockets -- How we beat the garbage gougers and their stinking high prices -- Fee fatigue -- "Wells Fargo will take your house" -- Giving to Goldman -- Please die soon -- Your 201(k) plan -- Wimpy's tab -- Pfizer's bitter pill -- Hollywood robbery -- Silly software -- Pilfering your paycheck -- Of commas and character -- What it all means -- Solutions -- Adding it all up -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
N2  - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch presents a sobering analysis of the ways everyday people are systematically victimized by corporate interests, revealing small-print tactics in commonplace consumer agreements while sharing recommendations for how to combat consumer-targeting abuses
ER  -