Warren Buffett’s conglomerate was a seasoned user of tax credits and the fourth-largest company on the Fortune 500.

Planet Ponzi: How the World Got Into This Mess, What Happens Planet Ponzi: How the World Got Into This Mess, What Happens

And I think that's the strength of this book for and why I found the analysis compelling (if maybe not the politics).It just makes you realize what an economic mess the world is in , and a huge cover up is in place , and that politicians of ALL parties , are just interested in feathering their own nests, with their cast iron pensions , inherited or gained wealth, and ALL are in the pocket of the bankers . To safeguard free speech, we need more speech, not censorship enacted by Silicon Valley oligarchs or ‘Ministries of Truth’ acting as a speech Stasi to shield the world from misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.

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Karmann’s newfound social status was “probably the biggest reason … I was so willing to go along with stuff I should have walked away from,” he told me this past September, by phone from federal prison. This is a sobering but always interesting read that will make you think hard about the future (albeit rather pensively! No longer one dependent on property, finance and borrowing, but led by industry, investment and exports. After hearing Carpoff muse about solar on wheels, Watson gathered a group of local entrepreneurs in a parking lot to see Carpoff’s odd-looking trailer. The base camps of a few major movies— Inception (starring Leonardo DiCaprio), Valentine’s Day (Julia Roberts), Bad Words (Jason Bateman)—were willing to give them a shot.If you converted even some of that to solar—particularly if you were first to market—you could become very rich.

Planet Ponzi: How the World Got Into This Mess, What Ha…

Though they deny any wrongdoing, Milder and Nixon Peabody agreed last year to pay the plaintiffs what court filings describe as a “substantial” undisclosed sum, a settlement larger than those paid, to date, by any of DC Solar’s other advisers. I am awaiting in hopeful anticipation, for an epilogue edition to soon follow in an update of this deplorable state of affairs. Regardless of your stance on Carlson's opinions, we agree that censorship equates to fascist suppression.The conclusions are most worrying, and really it's a race to the bottom as to which of the big currencies is going to die first. He was only elected by accident and knows that he’s not properly qualified to sit in the legislature of the United States. The book has lots of facts and figures which demonstrate quite clearly how bankrupt the US and most countries in Europe are. He acts as a consultant for a number of governments in their disaster and contingency planning and has testified before the UK Parliament on regulation of carbon credits. What really dates this book is that Obama is still in charge here, but I would argue, and have done in other reviews, that the legacy of government is carried on for decades afterwards.