Download or read book The Billionaire Shell Game written by Lawrence J. Davis and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, brilliantly reported, and wickedly revealing, "The Billionaire Shell Game" follows the best and brightest of the information age as they enthusiastically spend their stockholders' money in the pursuit of the glittering future.
Download or read book The Billionaire Boondoggle written by Pat Garofalo and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do our politicians let the entertainment industry and individuals like Donald Trump bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment? It is widely believed, that a city in possession of a fortune must be in want of a partner who will drive economic development and thus be worth a substantial dowry of tax abatements, subsidies, and grants. These partners always prove faithless, though, especially when it comes to the entertainment industry. Never date an actor, as they say. From stadiums and movie productions to casinos and mega-malls to convention centers and hotels, cities and states have paid out billions of dollars to the world's corporate titans in an attempt to boost their economies, create new and better jobs, and lure well-known events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl to within their borders, not to mention give officials a chance to have their pictures taken with celebrities. That Big Entertainment drives bigger economies is a myth, however, one that has nonetheless permeated every facet of policy making despite the overwhelming evidence that it results in a raw deal for the taxpaying public. In The Billionaire Boondoggle, Garofalo takes readers on a tour of publically-subsidized corporate America to explain how that myth came to be, how much money America's elected officials throw away, and why courting Big Entertainment just courts disaster.
Download or read book Shell Game written by M K Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modality of the times, everyone wants to pass the buck and then pass judgment on the other guy; to sit back suffering, complaining and acting like there is nothing to be done. It is so rampant that businesses use this to bilk us out of trillions of dollars. The mighty Roman Empire did not fall because they were defeated in battle. They fell because corruption was rampant and accountability was all but non-existent. We are headed down the same path, Fortunately for us, there are still people like Marc Hoffman who are paying attention and doing what they can to hold others accountable. He is not a hero. He is just a responsible citizen doing what all responsible citizens should do. I found this book charming, witty and inspiring. Let's hope he inspires the next wave of responsible citizens before we begin to write the downfall of the American Empire.
Download or read book Trump The Shell Game written by Paul Schwartz and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To describe Donald J. Trump as unfit for office is not sufficient unless you can also explain in detail exactly why. That is what this book is intended to do and in great detail as captured in a series of columns written by the author. Paul Schwartz is a political columnist and has focused on the Trump administration and its mismanagement, from Trump’s misunderstanding of import tariffs to his total lack of understanding of how illegal drugs are smuggled into our country across the southern border to his embarrassing July 4 speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during which he referred to George Washington’s use of air power. If you want to reminisce about Trump’s miscues, this is the book for you. It is a time capsule of that administration from inauguration to impeachment.
Download or read book SHELL GAME A Military Whistleblowing Report to the U S Congress Exposing the Betrayal and Cover Up by the U S Government of the Union Bank of Switzerland Terrorist Threat Finance Connection to Booz Allen Hamilton and U S Central Command written by 2LT Scott Bennett 11th Psychological Operations Battalion and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shell Game written by Peter Mantius and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life thriller focuses on an Atlanta bank that loaned billions to Iraq during the 1980s--money Iraq used to buy arms, develop weapons, destroy Iran, take over Kuwait, bomb Israel, and kill Americans in the Gulf War.
Download or read book The Billionaire s Fake Dating Game The Billionaire s Artist Part Three written by K.L. Zales and published by K.L. Zales. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbie has just broken some surprising news to Thomas—they're expecting their first child. With their fake marriage only one month away and Thomas's inheritance to be decided soon, Abbie and Thomas now face the prospect of parenthood. While Abbie is fearful that a baby will take away her identity, she wants to keep their child. But Thomas harbors an even greater fear, something he has hidden from Abbie, and it just may rip the two of them apart. Can Abbie and Thomas's love for each other conquer everything that life has thrown at them?
Download or read book Shell Game written by J. Michael Veron and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Veron's family learns that a lease with Shell Oil for land it owned in western Louisiana had expired it opened a controversy that took nine years to resolve. This is a David and Goliath tale of duplicity, environmental chaos, and legal bullying.
Download or read book The Billionaire s Fake Dating Game Complete Series Books 1 3 The Billionaire s Artist written by K.L. Zales and published by K.L. Zales. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set contains all three books of the Billionaire's Fake Dating Game. Begin falling in love all over again! Book One: Abbie Tell has had it with men, especially since the last one she dated kept track of the miles on her car with a spreadsheet. After leaving her oppressive home behind to make it as an artist, Abbie has sworn that she will remain single and create a life for herself. But when she risks losing her art gallery and having to go back home, Abbie is desperate. To pay her bills, she must become an artist to the stunning billionaire Thomas Maxwell. That's fine—except that it turns out Thomas is also in trouble. Known for being hot, single, and adventurous, Thomas must look like he's settling down with a woman in order to inherit the family business. And Abbie's the best candidate. So what's the solution? Fake dating! It's only an act, after all, and Abbie swears she will never fall for Thomas... Book Two: Despite her vows to stay single and independent, Abbie Tell finds herself getting more involved than ever in super billionaire Thomas Maxwell's fake dating ploy. With the family business on the line, Thomas has upped the game--and now Abbie is Thomas's fake fiancee. It's still just a business deal, according to Thomas. Only it's not. Abbie has feelings for Thomas and she's getting the sense that Thomas is taking this further for reasons other than business. That would be great, but now Abbie's best friend hates her and her father's counting on her to marry Thomas so he can get his hands on the Maxwell family fortune. Abbie can back out whenever she wants--but she and Thomas share something deep, something Abbie has never experienced with another man, and even her fear of settling down may be no match for him. Book Three: Abbie has just broken some surprising news to Thomas—they're expecting their first child. With their fake marriage only one month away and Thomas's inheritance to be decided soon, Abbie and Thomas now face the prospect of parenthood. While Abbie is fearful that a baby will take away her identity, she wants to keep their child. But Thomas harbors a secret and it just may rip the two of them apart. Can Abbie and Thomas's love for each other conquer everything that life has thrown at them? The Billionaire's Fake Dating Game Box Set is a bundle of three humorous, contemporary romance reads.
Download or read book Shell game DVD written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
Download or read book Selling the American People written by Lee Mcguigan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs": these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this eye-opening book, digital advertising was well underway before the widespread use of the Internet. Explaining how marketers have brandished the tools of automation and management science to exploit new profit opportunities, Selling the American People traces data-driven surveillance all the way back to the 1950s, when the computerization of the advertising business began to blend science, technology, and calculative cultures in an ideology of optimization. With that ideology came adtech, a major infrastructure of digital capitalism. To help make sense of today's attention merchants and choice architects, McGuigan explores a few key questions: How did technical experts working at the intersection of data processing and management sciences come to command the center of gravity in the advertising and media industries? How did their ambition to remake marketing through mathematical optimization shape and reflect developments in digital technology? In short, where did adtech come from, and how did data-driven marketing come to mediate the daily encounters of people, products, and public spheres? His answers show how the advertising industry's efforts to bend information technologies toward its dream of efficiency and rational management helped to make "surveillance capitalism" one of the defining experiences of public life.
Download or read book Shell Game written by Jeff Buick and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is what it seems in this twisting, turning, nonstop thriller, which begins when a husband and wife discover the company they've invested everything in has vanished.
Download or read book The Baby the Billionaire Demands written by Jennie Lucas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish billionaire’s steamy dalliance makes him a father and perhaps a husband in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Lola Price didn’t dare tell Rodrigo Cabrera she was pregnant, after he spurned her. But now that he’s discovered her secret, he’s determined his child will take his name! While their mutual desire in the marriage bed is undeniable, Rodrigo keeps himself at a distance. Yet fiery Lola won’t be pushed away again. She’ll show Rodrigo that their son and their relationship are worth fighting for! Indulge in this dramatic secret-baby story!
Download or read book Billionaire s Hook Up written by Claire Adams and published by Ownit Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Rainer is going to inherit the family fortune then he has to settle down...and Tasha is his only hope... It isn’t easy being a woman in a man’s world, but Tasha has been doing her best. While it has meant sacrificing a social life and a love life, she has risen within the ranks of Hyperion, becoming one of the more notable junior executives. But all her success is threatened when stunning Rainer Maxwell weasels his way onto her big project. Of course, Rainer himself is dealing with pressure to be a certain kind of man and a certain kind of success. While the world seems to love his playboy image and slick business style, his family looks down upon it. And that matters, because in the Maxwell family, only one heir gets the fortune, and the others get pennies. But he'll need Tasha's help. Sparks fly, both good and bad. Is this a match made in heaven, or are these two who are destined to infuriate each other?
Download or read book Information Needs of Communities written by Steven Waldman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an info. and commun. renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical info. about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the info. needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. This report by the FCC Working Group on the Info. Needs of Communities addresses the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. Contents: Media Landscape; The Policy and Regulatory Landscape; Recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Shell Game written by Jerry Martien and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the nature of money by looking at how the Island of Manhattan was purchased in 1627 through an exchange of shells or beads, which the author believes probably did not hold the same significance for both parties in the transaction.
Download or read book The Man Who Owns the News written by Michael Wolff and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Fire and Fury, this irresistible account offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale—and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future. If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate them. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few—are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns the News. With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they’ve never been revealed before.
