Peter Schweizer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ
How is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and hedge fund managers often make well-timed investment...
How is it that politicians often enter office with relatively modest assets, but then, as investors, regularly beat the stock market and sometimes beat the most rapacious hedge funds? How did some members of Congress know to dump their stock holdings just in time to escape the effects of the 2008 financial meltdown? And how is it that billionaires and hedge fund managers often make well-timed investment...
7) Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends
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Language
English
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Description
In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S.; but for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. "Secret empires" identifies public servants who cannot...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts
Edition
1st Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts hardcover ed.
Language
English
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Description
Beck makes the case that when you're traveling in the wrong direction, slight course corrections won't cut it. He exposes the idea of "transformation" for the progressive smokescreen that it is, while maintaining that a return to individual rights, an uncompromising adherence to the Constitution, and a complete rethinking about the role of government in a free society is the only way forward.
The past is prologue -- The crime of the century -- The...
12) The creepy line
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening documentary, reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle, hence powerful, manner in which they do it. A title culled from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Googles code of conduct, The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.