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American El Dorado

Author : Ron Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938905063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book American El Dorado written by Ron Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Charles Ponzi's name was permanently attached to the word "scheme" and a hundred years before Bernie Madoff mastered the investment con, Kentuckian Philip Arnold put together a plan which, like none before, would bilk rich (and greedy) investors with a "sting" entirely befitting America's stillwild West. Not content with simply swindling some of the country's brightest luminaries, politicians and highprofile celebrities of the day, Arnold did so in grand style, making himself and his story the subject of nationwide headlines. American El Dorado is the true story of how Philip Arnold and John Slack, cousins from Kentucky, convinced some of America's most notable citizens to invest in their discovery of an untouched field of precious stones in an unspecified Western location. So convincing was the scheme that even America's most famous jeweler, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was taken in. The con game made the pair rich - until the fraud was eventually revealed.

The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury Harpending

Author : Asbury Harpending
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury Harpending written by Asbury Harpending and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harpending's reminiscences of financial wheeling and dealing in Arizona and California in the second half of the 19th century. Harpending had interests almost everywhere: railroads, land, high finance and, of course, mining. The great Arizona diamond mine hoax of the title is a fascinating episode from California history, which fooled most everybody involved. It was a famous diamond hoax and swindle that netted the principals over $500,000 in the early 1870s, which the author exposed.

Ponzimonium

Author : Bartholomew H. Chilton
Publisher : Us Independent Agencies and Commissions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Ponzimonium written by Bartholomew H. Chilton and published by Us Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of crime and punishment that will inform and educate anyone who wants to find out how to identify and avoid becoming entangled in an investment fraud.

The Grand Scam

Author : Rob Rose
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770226222
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Scam written by Rob Rose and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2005 to 2009, the heir to one of South Africa’s blue-blood families, Barry Tannenbaum, methodically constructed the largest-ever con in South African history. The Grand Scam exposes details about the brazen greed of the scammers, a bank that facilitated the shady dealings rather than alerting the authorities, and the naivety of business people who should have known better. It goes far beyond the original news stories, containing original research and material that, for the first time, answers the central question of why. Barry Tannenbaum, the grandson of the founder of one of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical firms, Adcock Ingram, offered investors stratospheric returns of more than 200 per cent a year by investing in the components used to make AIDS drugs. It was nothing more than a lie, which suckered the country’s business elite, including the former CEO of Pick n Pay, the one-time head of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the ex-boss of OK Bazaars. After the bubble popped in June 2009, finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that hundreds of investors in South Africa, Australia and Europe had ploughed more than R12.5 billion into Tannenbaum’s scheme, based on the empty promise of immense riches. Dwarfing the Brett Kebble rip-off, Fidentia and the Krion pyramid scheme, it proved to be the most embarrassing financial disaster in the country’s history, and it exposed holes in a banking and financial system billed as one of the safest in the world. For Tannenbaum’s victims, the nightmare continued after the scheme collapsed, as liquidators, tax officials and criminal investigators demanded their pound of flesh. But Tannenbaum, now at large on Australia’s Gold Coast, continues to live as if nothing happened, working for an Australian insurance company. The question that hasn’t been answered until now is, how did Tannenbaum swindle so many people with such ease? And, more crucially, why did he do it? Through extensive interviews with his family, friends and numerous ‘investors’, this book provides the startling answers to those questions. For the first time, the real motivation that fuelled South Africa’s Bernie Madoff is laid bare.

Scam-Proof Your Assets

Author : Garrett Sutton
Publisher : RDA Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 194758815X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Scam-Proof Your Assets written by Garrett Sutton and published by RDA Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deceptive misinformation comes at us for many reasons. A key one is to steal our assets. We are free to communicate and stay connected in many ways. This great benefit, however, is now abused by criminal elements to take and defraud, bringing shame on trusting souls. The wreckage wrought by cyber criminality is not only financial but highly emotional. Lives are lost to depression and suicide. Don’t let this happen to you or your family. Scam Proof Your Assets: Guarding Against Widespread Deception gives you the tools and context for protecting yourself. Unlike other sources, Scam Proof Your Assets teaches you the patterns to look for, including greed and fear, ‘expert’ positioning and charm as manipulation. With knowledge comes self-defense. Scam Proof Your Assets also keenly analyzes the marks that criminals target, which include the well educated and normally skeptical. If you think you’d never be a target, think again. Everyone needs the strategies set forth in this book. Now and into the future you must keep your guard up against the relentless predators’ assault. Get your guard up with Scam Proof Your Assets.

The World Until Yesterday

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606002
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The World Until Yesterday written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.

Precious Objects

Author : Alicia Oltuski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143917170X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Precious Objects written by Alicia Oltuski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it. In Precious Objects, twenty-six-year-old journalist Alicia Oltuski, the daughter and granddaughter of diamond dealers, seamlessly blends family narrative with literary reportage to reveal the fascinating secrets of the diamond industry and its madcap characters: an Elvis-impersonating dealer, a duo of diamond-detective brothers, and her own eccentric father. With insight and drama, Oltuski limns her family’s diamond-paved move from communist Siberia to a displaced persons camp in post–World War II Germany to New York’s diamond district, exploring the connections among Jews and the industry, the gem and its lore, and the exotic citizens of this secluded world. Entertaining and illuminating, Precious Objects offers an insider’s look at the history, business, and society behind one of the world’s most coveted natural resources, providing an unforgettable backstage pass to an extraordinary and timeless show.

The King of Diamonds

Author : Simon Tolkien
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429967277
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The King of Diamonds written by Simon Tolkien and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expertly crafted follow-up to his acclaimed novel The Inheritance, Simon Tolkien has once again written a gripping and nuanced thriller laced with historical detail, treachery, and his signature writing style—a uniquely suspenseful blend that the Los Angeles Times called "half Christie and half Grisham." It's 1960, and David Swain is two years into his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. In the dead of night, David escapes from prison, and that same night Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home, Blackwater Hall. Inspector Trave of the Oxford Police, last seen in The Inheritance, heads the manhunt for David, whom he first brought to justice two years earlier. But Trave's suspicions lead him to Katya's uncle Titus Osman, a rich diamond dealer, and his sinister brother-in-law, Franz Claes, who has gone to great lengths to hide his former ties with the Nazis. However, Trave's motives are suspect - Osman is having an affair with Trave's estranged wife, Vanessa, and a newcomer to the Oxford Police, Inspector Macrae, is eager to exploit Trave's weaknesses to further his own ambition. Caught up in his superiors' rivalry, Trave's young assistant, Adam Clayton, finds himself uncertain who is right and which side to choose. Once David is captured and put on trial for his life, Trave is willing to risk everything that is dear to him—professionally and personally—to pursue his obsessive belief in Osman's guilt. The King of Diamonds is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Mysteries title.

The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury Harpending

Author : Asbury Harpending
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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The Diamond Makers

Author : Robert M. Hazen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654746
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Makers written by Robert M. Hazen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have treasured diamonds for their exquisite beauty and unrivaled hardness for thousands of years. Deep within the earth, diamonds grow. Diamonds the size of footballs, the size of watermelons - billions of tons of diamonds wait for eternity a hundred miles beyond our reach. Spanning centuries of ground-breaking science, bitter rivalry, outright fraud, and self-delusion, The Diamond Makers is a compelling narrative centered around the brilliant, often eccentric, and controversial pioneers of high pressure research. This vivid blend of dramatic personal stories and extraordinary scientific advances - and devastating failures - brings alive the quest to create diamond. Scientists have harnessed crushing pressures and scorching temperatures to transform almost any carbon-rich material, from road tar to peanut butter, into the most prized of gems. The book reveals the human dimensions of research - the competition, bravery, jealousy, teamwork, and greed that ultimately led to today's billion-dollar diamond synthesis industry.

Glitter & Greed

Author : Janine Farrell-Robert
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1609258800
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Glitter & Greed written by Janine Farrell-Robert and published by Red Wheel Weiser. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. With Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts’ explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time.

Invest Diva’s Guide to Making Money in Forex: How to Profit in the World’s Largest Market

Author : Kiana Danial
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 007181874X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Invest Diva’s Guide to Making Money in Forex: How to Profit in the World’s Largest Market written by Kiana Danial and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Q: Ladies, Do YOU Have What It Takes To Become A Forex Diva? A: Yes, You Do. With this incredible new step-by-step guide, investing pro and TV personality Kiana Danial shows you exactly how to understand and take advantage of foreign currency trading. Years ago, the author discovered that women in Japan were making a fortune trading currencies on the foreign exchange (forex) market. These ladies were not investment professionals or financial wizards; they were ordinary individuals who simply learned how the online currency exchange market works--and mastered it. Now you can do the same. In fact, you're about to see just how easy it can be to trade on the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Kiana Danial spent years studying the habits of investors and discovered that women frequently make smarter, wiser, and less-risky investment choices than their male counterparts. This is precisely why she founded InvestDiva.com--the woman's guide to smart, safe, and profitable trading. By tapping into women's intuitive knack for multitasking and risk management, the author demonstrates why a woman's natural skill sets make her uniquely equipped to reap the enormous rewards of this extremely lucrative field. Invest Diva will show you: How the global currency market works Why social, political, and cultural events shape trading The smartest short- and long-term strategies Best practices for navigating the economic calendar Plus, you'll learn how to identify investment opportunities and spot trends using the five points of the Invest Diva Diamond: * Technical Analysis * Fundamental Analysis * Sentimental Analysis * Capital Analysis * Overall Analysis From her popular blog to her worldwide TV and web presence, Danial has become famous for making complex topics fun and easy to understand via simple, everyday analogies. With Invest Diva, she shows women everywhere the stress-free way to trade currencies--without ever leaving home. What the Boys of Wall Street don't want you to know . . . After years of studying the principles of the foreign currency exchange market, financial expert and financial correspondent Kiana Danial gets to the bottom of today's most curious investment phenomenon: Why are women suddenly making a fortune trading currencies? The answer is inside this book, along with a roadmap designed to show you how and why forex can work for you. "Kiana Danial breaks down a sophisticated foreign exchange market with memorable analogies that can help the most financially illiterate person understand and gain passion in following the markets the way Ms. Danial does." -- FAN YANG, CMT, CEO, FXTimes.com "A must-read if you're considering trading any market or need to know more about trading the forex market. Kiana is an experienced market analyst and a gifted communicator whose book confirms what a lot of men are coming to realize--that women have an edge in trading because they understand the value of analyzing and planning before they risk their time and money." -- JAY NORRIS, founder, Trading University, and author of Mastering the Currency Market and Mastering Trade Selection and Management

A Colossal Hoax

Author : Scott Tribble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 074256472X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A Colossal Hoax written by Scott Tribble and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1869, as America stood on the brink of becoming a thoroughly modern nation, workers unearthed what appeared to be a petrified ten-foot giant on a remote farm in upstate New York. The discovery caused a sensation. Over the next several months, newspapers devoted daily headlines to the story and tens of thousands of Americans—including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the great showman P. T. Barnum—flocked to see the giant on exhibition. In the colossus, many saw evidence that their continent, and the tiny hamlet of Cardiff, had ties to Biblical history. American science also weighed in on the discovery, and in doing so revealed its own growing pains, including the shortcomings of traditional education, the weaknesses of archaeological methodology, as well as the vexing presence of amateurs and charlatans within its ranks. A national debate ensued over the giant's origins, and was played out in the daily press. Ultimately, the discovery proved to be an elaborate hoax. Still, the story of the Cardiff Giant reveals many things about America in the post-Civil War years. After four years of destruction on an unimagined scale, Americans had increasingly turned their attention to the renewal of progress. But the story of the Cardiff Giant seemed to shed light on a complicated, mysterious past, and for a time scientists, clergymen, newspaper editors, and ordinary Americans struggled to make sense of it. Hucksters, of course, did their best to take advantage of it. The Cardiff Giant was one of the leading questions of the day, and how citizens answered it said much about Americans in 1869 as well as about America more generally.

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

Author : Edward Jay Epstein
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494372217
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? written by Edward Jay Epstein and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Jay Epstein investigates the most brilliant illusion in modern history: the illusion that diamonds are so rare that they will maintain their value forever. He explains how the the De Beers cartel, backed by a syndicate of Jewish diamond dealers in London, created an artificial scarcity by controlling the worldwide supply and used modern advertising to establish it in the mind of the public. In this book, comprised of six essays, we also learn about the secret workings of the cartel over the past century, including: + Why you cannot always sell diamonds for the price you paid? + Why Russia is now taking over the cartel operation? + How De Beers now uses the concept of blood diamonds to control prices? + Why Nicky Oppenheimer exited De Beers in 2011? Praise for Edward Jay Epstein: "Brilliant Expose of the International diamond monopoly" --Telegraph (London) "Full of readable if somewhat garish descriptions of diamond mines, diamond traders, and the activities of governments. If Ian Fleming were alive, he would have found much rewarding material here." -Woodrow Wyatt, Sunday Times

Systematic Geology

Author : Clarence King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systematic Geology written by Clarence King and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diamond Willow

Author : Helen Frost
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466896345
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Willow written by Helen Frost and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to me than most people see. Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again. Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself. Diamond Willow is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Everything is Bullshit

Author : Zachary Crockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692224960
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Everything is Bullshit written by Zachary Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many of our society's most cherished traditions are actually based on historical accident, the profit motives of a few companies, or the agenda of someone who died long ago. A lot of what we believe and do is bullshit, yet we walk around thinking our way of doing things is inherently correct. Why do we exchange diamond engagement rings? Why is wine so expensive? How does art become 'art'? Why do so many non-profits want us to donate our cars? Why does college cost so much? Why do so many pets die in animal shelters? Why is the world the way it is?"--Back cover.