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020 _a9781591843580
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035 _a(OCoLC)794556065
037 _bPenguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 282-5074
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100 1 _aJohnston, David,
_d1948-
245 1 4 _aThe fine print :
_bhow big companies use "plain English" to rob you blind /
_cDavid Cay Johnston.
260 _aNew York :
_bPortfolio/Penguin,
_c2012.
300 _ax, 305 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aAuthor'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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aInvoices.
650 0 _aCorporations
_xCorrupt practices.
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