The Great Fuzz Frenzy

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Deep, deep down in their underground town, the prairie dogs live in harmony--until a mysterious, fluorescent, very fuzzy thing (otherwise known as a tennis ball) rolls down their hole. When the prairie dogs discover that they can pluck and pull the fuzz into fabulous fashions, their fear quickly turns to curiosity, then delight, then pure greed.

The frenzy that erupts threatens to tear apart the prairie-dog town forever. But when mean ol' Big Bark is kidnapped after taking all the fuzz for himself, the prairie dogs come to the rescue and remember the true meaning of community.

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LOVE IT!.......2007-09-16

I first read this book at a teacher workshop and fell in love with the story and the varied page formats. (Some pages unfold vertically to show the underground tunnels!) This is not only a fun book to look at, the kids giggled all the way through it as the plot unfolded. This could be used in reader's workshop to teach point of view, predicting, inferring, sound effects, or it could also be used to spur a discussion on friendship and cooperation. We did an author study on this sister authir/illustrator pair and the students love how they have a sense of humor and are a bit silly in their stories. I LOVE IT TOO! :O)

My kids teacher suggested this one!.......2007-05-02

This was a fun book! A dog drops a tennis ball down a hole which turns out to be the entrance to a prairie dog community. It surprises and scares them. They gather around chattering about to do; that is until Big Bark appears. He is a rather large prairie dog who has a bottle cap for a hat. Before he can do anything little pip squeak jumps forward and picks off some fuzz and starts playing with it. Pretty soon the whole colony starts playing with the fuzz and things get crazy. Soon more and more prairie dogs show up wanting fuzz and it runs out. Then they start fighting over it!

We liked this book and it's been a bedtime book every night since we bought it. The artwork is good and I think the author gave a funny presentation to the personalities of Prairie dogs. I particularly liked Big Bart's run in with an Eagle. "No more Big Bark! The crowd cheered "Yaaaaay!" "Don't yaaaaaay! He's one of us!" yelled Pip.

Again a great story and I can see the book will be well loved by my girl.

Fun to read.......2007-03-14

This is such a cute and clever story. It's great to see how all of the prairie dogs come together at the end. We have had this for awhile and both of my girls (4 and 7) still consider it a favorite.

The Great Fuzz Frenzy.......2006-11-06

This book was a joy to read. The illustrations were priceless. I never knew that prairie dogs were so much like humans!

a wonderful gift for any age "kid".......2006-10-12

This is a perfectly wonderful concept with super illustrations just waiting for a touch from the reader. It is impossible to read this book without laughing. Underlying lessons are as easy to take as a spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down!

Greed Is Good: The Capitalist Pig Guide to Investing

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Greed Is Good: The Capitalist Pig Guide to Investing
Jonathan Hoenig
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Greed, in Jonathan Hoenig's estimation, is passion. It's lust. It has nothing to do with single-minded accumulation and everything to do with freedom, with the ability to pursue the things that make you happy. Hoenig received his first real introduction to greed while working at Starbucks as a teenager. He found that the money he earned after buying a few shares of Starbucks stock greatly exceeded what he made as an after-school wage slave. While in college, he started a radio show called Capitalist Pig, which now plays in 18 states. Greed has been good to Hoenig.

In Greed Is Good, he wants to share the wealth with his post-baby-boom generation by preaching the gospel of investing. But investing isn't just about choosing mutual fund A over mutual fund B. It's about not spending money on useless stuff, leaving more money for the things that are meaningful. Hoenig understands how frills like designer clothes, CDs, and, yes, Starbucks coffee can seem like necessities, when really they're lifestyle add-ons that can be eliminated. Doing without such excesses can be painful, but that's something else Hoenig believes in; not only is greed good, so is discipline, sacrifice, and self-denial. Greed is written in an eclectic style that includes Yiddish phrases, street slang, and generational cultural references ("Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?"), which serves two purposes: it's very entertaining to read, and renders the often-dry message of "Save and invest" infinitely more palatable. --Lou Schuler

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Money is important. Money is a catalyst. Money makes things happen.

Am I right? What is more powerful than money? Love? Food? Not a chance: With cash in hand, one can simply order out. For both.

I grew up in the 1980s, so I take the utmost pride in having lived in what I honestly believe to be the greatest decade of the twentieth century. Why? From the Police to Perestroika, the `80s had it all. It's obvious that as a generation, most of our feelings about money were formed at a time when Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Michael Milken, and Yuppie culture reigned supreme.

Enter the `90s--and once again the stock market is booming. Now older, most of us have amassed some cash for the very first time. You want to get in on the action, but haven't got a clue where to start. More than anything, you are unique--the last thing you need is a middle-aged money manager telling you where to stow your stash.

So here's the deal: I'm twenty-three years old, obsessed with money and the stock market, a radio talk-show host, and a commodities trader. I've made money in everything from mutual funds to stocks--even options and futures. I've penned this little...shall we say, manifesto, for those of you out there who want something more out of life then two-for-one night at the Toss `n Sauce. Greed Is Good will tell you everything you need to know about the major financial "products" out there: from mutual funds to money markets, even the sexy stuff like options and futures.

Money is important, but I think this book makes an oftentimes dry subject a mite more palatable. I had to sit through the boring stuff, no reason you should too. Bottom line? This book is a practical but punchy ride through the money maze. And if I found my way out--so can you.

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Invest in the knowledge of a young Buffett.......2005-11-22

If you were born in the 80's and want to get into investing, then this book is for you. Mr. Hoenig brings life and funny irreverence to the very dry subject of investing that the "twenty-something" in all of us can appreciate. This book covers everything from basic saving to options and futures. The prose of this book is in everyday language and is easy to understand; any technical terms that are given are explained and/or defined in the running text or the margins. There are also definitions and cultural anecdotes, as well as a few Yiddish words (with definitions), throughout the chapters for your added enjoyment. Hoenig's underlying theme, though, is discipline. Know that Jonathan Hoenig is one of today's youngest master investors who runs his own hedge fund (Capitalistpig LLC). To actually witness his mind at work, tune in to Fox News on Saturday at 11:30 am. He is always a featured analyst on the show "Cashin' In."

Not worth your time.......2004-02-11

Somebody recommended this book to me. I read it. The idea is good however the author is far from understanding the principles of math (one would argue about understanding economics which is half social half science). There are many wrong calculations. I tried to contact Mr. Hoenig as I am from Chicago, too. Left several messages, sent e-mails with disagreement - no response.
I don't recommend the book. It's a waste of time.

Good Book.......2003-05-04

I'd be compelled to give this book 3 stars, but due to the comprehensive information on options on futures, I choice to give it four stars. This is a great book, but it's simple, conversational style can get annoying and there can be too much substance at times to follow (sidebars, quotes, etc.). This is a good book by an up-and-coming hedge fund manager (Jonathan Hoenig). While I don't know if it would be good for kids to read, it definitely is a great book for adults who are intermediately knowledgeable about the financial markets, as it explains terms and operations in a simple, easy to understand mannerism.

A Pig on Wall Street...No Less than a Bull in a China Shop.......2003-02-11

Jonathan Hoenig is a regular analyst on one of my favorite shows, "Cashin' In" on Fox News. Frankly, I like his style. From his no-nonsense attitude toward investment advice to telling a Wall Street elder that he doesn' "know preferred stock from livestock" right there on the television screen, Hoenig is truly the financial voice of the Me generation.

Long held to be the stodgy realm of pinstriped boomers, the world of investing is an important one for we Xers to get into, if for no other reason than Hoenig's central theme in this book: we have the time. We have a lot of time left in which to make our fortunes and take our place among the leaders of this world, and while this book isn't necessarily the roadmap (nor does it proclaim to be), it is most certainly the antithesis of all the rest of the investing books out there which are little more than cobranded, self-serving brochure-ware. Hoenig tackles investing from the 20-something point of view, puts it in the proper perspective, and gives us the tools we need, but tells us to do our own work. I applaud that approach. Plus, this book is one hell of a good read, even if you couldn't care less about making money (you know who you are too..).

My only hope is that I can get Hoenig to do an interview or column for my new GenX-themed website, because after reading this book and watching him on Fox, his opinion is one I truly value.

A lively introduction to investing on the stock market.......2002-12-27

I was looking for a book that would give an overview of the stock market and investing and I found it in this book. The title alone drew me to it. Johnathan Hoenig is the host and producer of "Capitalist Pig", the first radio program exclusively for the financial needs of 'Gen-Exers'. Hoenig has been investing in the stock market before he could drive and now holds a seat on the prestigious Chicago Board of Trade. In this book, he provides a lively intoduction stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, options, diversification strategies, order execution and other fundamental topics of investing. He encourages investors to take prudent risks and think ahead. Hoenig's philosophy is not just about being rich, but its also about taking control of our future, professionally, personally and financially. His overall philosophy is complete self-reliance. This witty and fun book inspires a delightful spirit of independence and after reading this, I am looking forward to making lots of money investing in the stock market.

Such a good boy: How a pampered son's greed led to murder

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Compelling, Truthful account of a power hungry boy

Such a good boy: How a pampered son's greed led to murder
Lisa Hobbs Birnie
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Hate it when the movie turns out to be better than the book.......2005-01-17

I am totally disappointed in this book. It's really bad when the movie seems to give you more insight than the book on the same subject. Like so many "true crime" books, it does nothing but depend a lot on court transcripts and second-hand interviews. The author did not try. The author did not dig. The author did not seem that interested in his subject.

Compelling, Truthful account of a power hungry boy.......2001-04-23

This true-crime book is about 18 year-old Darren Huenemann, and his struggles to come to grips with reality. It explains his diabolical scheme to off his mother and his wealthy grandmother to get his inheritance early. It gives insight into Darren's thought pattern and his deepening interest in Albert Camus's brilliant play Caligula, and how he tries to emulate the tyrannical Roman Emperor in his day to day life. Darren's irresistable and manipulative personality lures in two outcasts, Derik Lord and David Muir, who Darren manipulates to commit the grizzly murders. The book gives extensive information on the backgrounds of Doris Leatherbarrow and Sharon Huenemann, the two victims. Overall "Such a Good Boy" is a thrilling and flawlessly written book and I highly recommend it and its movie counterpart, Scorn.

From corporate greed to common good: Canadian churches and community economic development

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From corporate greed to common good: Canadian churches and community economic development
Murray MacAdam
Manufacturer: Novalis
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Despite record profits and low interest rates and inflation, the mainstream economy fails to meet the needs of many Canadians. Yet there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon: a growing grassroots movement called community economic development (CED). These efforts encourage citizens to take action for social and economic development. MacAdam offers practical suggestions for individuals and groups who wish to participate in community economic initiatives.

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Good Over Evil
Meche Okwesili
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Good Over Evil in retrospect details the story of Africa\'s enslavement, subjugation and racial prejudice. It enumerates the various racial laws used to subjugate the people into obedience and Africa\'s instinct and sacrificial spirit to fight for dignity against all odds using South Africa as a case study.

Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives

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Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives
Sam Pizzigati
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Should we care that wealth in the United States is unequally distributed--and getting more so every year?

Should we worry that America's most wealthy, in just a generation, have doubled their share of the nation's wealth?

Should we be alarmed that America's richest 1 percent now holds more wealth--over $2 trillion more--than America's entire bottom 90 percent?

Apparently not. Our nation's top elected leaders see absolutely no reason to challenge, or even discomfort, America's remarkably grand concentrations of wealth.

That reluctance, Sam Pizzigati argues in his new "Greed and Good", endangers us all.

Over recent years, academics and activists the world over have generated a broad and often brilliant body of work that exposes just how concentrated wealth is poisoning everything we hold dear, from our health to our happiness, from our professions to our pastimes, from our Earth to our arts.

In "Greed and Good", author Sam Pizzigati brings this critically important body of work together, for the first time ever inside a single book, and builds upon it. His riveting pages make undeniably plain the horrific price we pay for accepting, as an inevitable given, wealth's domination.

Along the way, "Greed and Good" engagingly dissects and demolishes what amounts to the case for greed, the old saws that apologists for inequality regularly trop out to justify the gaps that divide us.

These gaps, Sam Pizzigati counsels, can be narrowed. And what can we do to create a significantly less unequal America? "Greed and Good" explores the most promising options, then offers a practical political guide for moving toward the boldest option of all, a "maximum wage", a national ceiling on annual individual income that would rise if and only if the minimum wage rose first.

A century ago, with wealth concentrating at levels much like today's, Americans arose in anger. "Greed and Good" reminds us all, powerfully, and unforgettably, why such concentrations once again need to be feared--and fought.

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Can you say...Communism?.......2006-11-12

Honestly, there's not much that's new in this book. It's interesting to draw parallels between the arguments in this book and the arguments the early, and present day communists make. They're identical. It's all about limiting freedom, taking your property and money and distributing it to everyone, making everyone equally miserable.

In short, this is a great snapshot of the exact same broken record argument that socialists and communists have been making for decades, just wrapped in a shiny new cover. It's painfully clear to everyone who has ever suffered in a communist society, socialism and communism is a MISERABLE FAILURE.

I commend the author for trying to repackage these same old ideas once again. His heart, I believe, is in the right place. Just like the communists, I think he really does care about the human condition, albeit in a skewed way. It's just that socialism is not the answer. Additionally The book is structurally superb and is a great read.

I recommend you read this book to put the great socialist failures of history in proper perspective, and to understand the idea of taking power from the individual in the name of "the greater good" will never go away.

A nutty book full of misinformation.......2005-07-26

What can one say about this book other than that it is some socialist fantasy. Pizzigati's central proposal to rid our country of its gross inequities is to limit all households from making more than about $111,000 a year (that is combined income of both adults if there are two) and any income earned above that would be taxed away at 100%. Setting aside the fact that an idea like this does not have a prayer of ever becoming the law of this land (not least of which is because there are way too many people who make that much, or do with their spouse, or aspire to) this is just a nutty idea. It would also be dangerous were it not so unrealistic. You just don't get the kind of equality that Pizzigati desires without massive coercion. The author seems to be fine with this and like so many Utopians before him he is quite content to break a few eggs in the name of creating an earthly paradise. What the author misses is that freedom creates inequalities in its wake. As a disciple of the Church of Egalitarianism, Pizzigati would gladly crush the economic liberty of the creative and sucessful to deliver us to his promised land of sameness and mind-numbing equality. The GDP of the United States would plummit if this author's ideas were inacted, as incentives to create would nearly vanish, and capital would flee this country as we have never seen before. A good antidote to this book is Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom or his Free to Choose - both explore the relationships between individual liberty and the capitalist system. If you have read Sam Pizzigati's books I feel your pain, if you have not, let this modest review be your warning.

Most important book I've read this year.......2004-07-26

The past 30 years have seen tremendous growth in the United States in productivity and wealth, and yet we don't all seem very appreciative. In fact, as Yale political scientist Robert Lane has documented, surveys have found Americans' assessment of their level of happiness declining significantly. The same is not the case in other developed countries.

The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world's population and spends 42 percent of the world's health care expenses, and yet Americans are less healthy than the residents of nearly every other wealthy nation and a few poor ones as well, as documented by Dr. Stephen Bezruchka of the University of Washington.

What's going on? We spend more on criminal justice and have more crime. How can that be? We're richer and have more poverty. Why is that?

Sam Pizzigati, author of a new book called "Greed and Good," thinks he has both an answer and a solution to these and several other riddles. Pizzigati focuses on the extreme increase in inequality that the United States has seen over the past generation. The Federal Reserve Board has documented gains by America's wealthiest 1 percent of more than $2 trillion more than everyone in America's bottom 90 percent combined. We are now the most unequal wealthy nation on earth and have reversed the relationship we had to Europe when the founders of this country rejected aristocracy. Today Europeans come to the United States to marvel at the excesses of wealth beside shameful poverty.

Many of us would like to lift up those at the bottom. Few of us want to bring down those at the top. Pizzigati argues that you cannot do one without the other, because the super wealthy will always have the political power to avoid contributing to bringing the bottom up. This will leave it to the middle class to assist those less fortunate even as their own situations are slipping and their concept of success -- based on the lifestyles of the CEO-barons -- is being driven further out of reach. The middle class won't want to do this, and instead will support policies that benefit the super wealthy.

But the existence of the super wealthy, Pizzigati argues, has a long list of negative impacts on all of our lives. Get rid of vast concentrations of wealth, and all sorts of things happen, including lower murder rates, lower blood pressure, and lower housing prices. Or so says the extensively documented research gathered together in "Greed and Good".

Take the few points I mentioned above: happiness, health, and crime. Research suggests that when people see their situations improving over time and when they see their situations as acceptable by the standard of those around them, they tend to be happy. We had this in the 1950s and 1960s, a period when working families prospered and income over $200,000 was taxed at roughly 90 percent.

Developed societies with the healthiest and longest living people, extensive research shows, are not those with the highest average wealth, but those with the greatest equality of wealth. Explanations for this fact vary from consideration of the levels of stress caused by economic insecurity, to the focusing of health care on plastic surgery and other luxuries at the expense of treatment of actual illnesses.

Research also shows that a country's murder rate varies with its inequality, not its overall wealth or its criminal justice spending.

Pizzigati proposes a new system of income tax that would lower taxes on 99 percent of Americans and allow the wealthiest 1 percent to lower their taxes by lobbying to raise the minimum wage.

Pizzigati calls his proposal the Ten Times Rule. It would work as follows. If your household brought in less than the income of two full-time minimum wage workers, you would pay no income tax. Above that level you would pay 1 percent. Above twice the minimum wage you would pay 2 percent. And so on up to 10 percent. Any income above 10 times the minimum would be taxed at 100 percent.

This would mean significantly lower taxes on 99 percent of us. It would also mean an economy focused on products for a once-again expanding middle class, rather than our new aristocracy. It would mean a country without what Senator John Edwards has called the two Americas.

A Vitally Important, Mind-bending Book.......2004-07-21

Did you know that in 1943, the highest marginal tax rate, on incomes above $200,000 (approximately $2.4 million today) was 94 percent?

That throughout the 1950s, the decade conservatives so often claim is their ideal, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent (despite being mostly peacetime) and one out of every three American workers was unionized?

That in 1942, FDR actually called for a $25,000 ($300,000 in today's dollars) maximum income -- and the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told reporters he had to "analyze the situation carefully" before he could make a "well-considered" comment?

As the Virginia Slims ads say (do they still say this?), "You've come a long way, baby." In the wrong direction. This spring, Fortune magazine reported that the 587 billionaires on the planet, who are collectively worth 20 *trillion* dollars, actually increased their wealth by a half-trillion dollars -- that's almost a billion dollars each -- in the year 2003.

In other words, a group of people who already had more wealth than they could personally spend in a thousand years each had their wealth increase by $100,000 an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- and nobody said boo, no one raised an eyebrow. No one, as far as I know, even wrote a protest song about it -- not even a funny one. We have all been so thoroughly brainwashed to believe that millionaires generate many times more wealth than they keep that we can barely dare to think, much less say out loud, that most of those billions are in fact, taken -- legally stolen -- from the rest of humanity.

Greed and Good is a mind-bending book. Its premise, taken from the introduction, is simple. "That some people have too much," writes the author, "is not just *a* problem. It is *the* problem, the root of what ails us as a nation, a social cancer that coarsens our culture, endangers our economy, distorts our democracy, even limits our lifespans."

The book is a tour de force that panoramically (perhaps too panoramically) builds the case for that point. In the process, it debunks both the conservative and the neoliberal economic myths that have turned extreme wealth into a non-issue. You probably didn't know, for instance, that a solid body of epidemiological evidence shows that inequality is strongly correlated with poorer health and lower longevity within populations. Not poverty -- inequality. And not just for poor people, but for middle-class people as well. In short, unequal societies are bad for your health -- but don't expect a Surgeon General report on this anytime soon, even if (or when) Kerry is elected.

In situation after situation, the author shows how the potential to make extreme wealth has warped our society. In his chapter on the professions, for example, he talks about how this phenomenon has affected smart young college aged people. If you're a high-achiever -- and you want to follow the sciences -- but scientists start at $50,000, while corporate lawyers are starting at $80,000 and up -- and the lawyers are then pricing up all the local real estate, so a scientist may end up living a second-class life -- what do you do? Not surprisingly, the "best and the brightest" aren't going into science the way they used to. As for investment banking - would you believe that in 1966, an investment banker started with a salary of $9,500?

Pizzigatti, a labor journalist, builds his case meticulously, yet for the most part, quite readably, carefully explaining any and all technical terms or arguments. If anything, he is too careful -- the book could have benefited from an editor to chop some of the less convincing arguments and the over-explanations, to make it move a little more quickly. But especially in the first third, where he debunks the arguments for greed ("greed as an incentive," "the greedy as deserving" and "the greedy as benefactors"), he makes many arcane topics clear and engaging.

As a liberal baby boomer, it's infuriating and yet strangely affirming to read this book and realize the extent to which an incredibly reactionary counterrevolution happened stealthily behind the scenes while I was going about my life. I didn't realize that back when I was a kid, CEOs did not make more than the President. Now they feel it is their right to make $3 million, or $15 million, or have stock option windfalls of $69 million, while their companies go down in flames (as several stories in the book describe). If you've had the feeling that something terribly wrong happened over the last thirty years, but you can't quite put your finger on just what it was, this book will feel like a revelation to you. While many excellent books on the right-wing takeover of our politics explain what happened politically, this book does something unique -- it explains what happened to society as a whole as a result. It answers such questions as why, in a society that is by far the richest in human history (and many times wealthier than it was in our childhoods) we supposedly can't "afford" universal healthcare, and why we all seem to be working harder and are more anxious about our material well-being than ever.

The book ends with an absolutely audacious proposal -- for America to adopt a "Ten Times Rule," for the most part lowering or holding steady all taxes on income up to ten times the minimum wage, then taxing all income above it -- FDR's "maximum wage." I'm not sure of all of his math -- this would at this moment be a top individual income of $107,120, which seems too low to me (although if this were somehow suddenly the law of the land, you KNOW the minimum wage would be doubled in an instant). Even though I think it's unrealistic to imagine that a society will tax away everything at the top (I'll settle for a top marginal tax rate of 95 percent), his vision of a possible world, which he lays out quite credibly (and which, he shows, will not result in economic apocalypse and is wholly compatible with modern capitalism) is the most hopeful vision I have read or heard about in decades.

At the very least, this book will make you, too, yearn for an America that has far fewer millionaires and far happier, healthier and more involved citizens. Sometimes visions come out of nowhere and catch hold, eventually changing whole societies. I truly hope Pizzigati's vision is one of these.

Of Utmost Importance.......2004-07-08

This excellent book is a thorough exploration of how unbridled greed is undermining the essential fabric of our society. If we have any hope of renewing and saving our democracy (let alone deal with the issue of terrorism in an unjust world) we must face head-on the greed that is polluting the very soul of our own nation. "Greed and Good" carefully examines the deep roots that greed has planted and offers alternative approaches to how wealth is distributed in our country. Most importantly, the author makes an excellent case for the concept of establishing a maximum wage. President FDR brought this idea to Congress back in 1942- today, in the age of the ENRON scandal, and in the age of modern-day billionaire kings, perhaps the time for a maximum wage has arrived. "Greed and Good" provides much food for thought and is written in an easily readable style. I highly recommend it.

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The Select Reader: Greed and Glory on Wall Street, Moonshine, House, Good to Eat, Once a Warrior King

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The Select Reader: Greed and Glory on Wall Street, Moonshine, House, Good to Eat, Once a Warrior King
Noel Rae , David Dunbar , Mary Kirby , Janetta Lee , and Amy Peck
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The Vicar of Wakefield, Complete and Unabridged
Oliver Goldsmith
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Large print, complete and unabridged book of the famous story. Lor Byron once called the story "the most exquisite of all romance in miniature". Dr. Primrose, the vicar, has many problems & misfortunes but in the end, virtue wins out.

Absolute power: Kawasaki and Sea-Doo show us why greed ... is good.(2007 Dream Demo)(Kawasaki Ultra 250X)(Sea-Doo RXT)(Product/service evaluation): An article from: Watercraft World

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