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050 14 $aHF5681.I7$bJ64 2013
082 04 $a364.16/8$223
100 1 $aJohnston, David Cay,$d1948-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe fine print :$bhow big companies use "plain English" to rob you blind /$cDavid Cay Johnston.
264 1 $aNew York, New York, USA :$bPortfolio/Penguin,$c©2013.
300 $axxi, 305 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.
505 0 $aBilling -- 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.
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.
650 7 $aCorporations$xCorrupt practices.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00879825
650 7 $aInvoices.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00978499
775 08 $iReproduction of (manifestation):$aJohnston, David, 1948-$tFine print.$dNew York :Portfolio/Penguin, ©2012$w(DLC) 2012019318
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