The fine print how big companies use "plain English" to rob you blind
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...
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New York :
Portfolio,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
