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    The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
    The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
    The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
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    The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind

    Written by David Cay Johnston

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

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    About this audiobook

    David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.

    Now this bestselling author has turned his attention to the sneaky stipulations hidden in the fine print of just about every contract and government rule. Johnston has been known to whip out a utility bill-any utility bill-and explain line by line what all that mumbo jumbo actually means (and it doesn't mean anything good, unless you happen to be the utility company). Within all that jargon, disclosed in accordance with all requirements to you, the unsuspecting customer, lie the tools many companies use to rob you blind. Even worse is what's missing-all the contractually binding clauses that companies hide elsewhere, yet still enforce.

    The Fine Print is essential listening for anyone who wants to wrest power back from devious corporations and end their longstanding consumer abuse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 15, 2012
    ISBN9781452672991
    The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
    Author

    David Cay Johnston

    David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump and It’s Even Worse Than You Think. He has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE). Johnston has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now!, and NPR’s Morning Edition, among other shows, and was a consultant for the Netflix series House of Cards.

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      I ultimately found this book disappointing. Having very much enjoyed listening to Johnston on various shows I bought this book in the hopes of seeing deeper analyses of the financial problems in the United States than were offered here. Each chapter follows roughly the same pattern; the reader is introduced to a person (or person) in order to give a human face to the financial/regulatory issue to be focused on. The harm / unfairness done is demonstrated and Johnston turns to the next issue in the next chapter.This continues from chapter to chapter until the end of the book in which a almost all of the fixes suggested are normative rather than practically substantive.