01862cam a2200253 4500 681463530 TxAuBib 120521s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012019318 9781591843580 hbk. 1591843588 hbk. (OCoLC)6235 TxAuBib Johnston, David, 1948- The fine print : how big companies use ""plain English"" to rob you blind / David Cay Johnston. New York : Portfolio, 2012. x, 305 p. ; 24 cm. HARDCOVER 305 PAGES. Includes bibliographical references and index. Author's note -- Jacking up prices -- Corporate power unlimited -- Buffett buys a railroad -- Railroaded -- In twenty-ninth place and fading fast -- Profits upkeep commissions -- ""We lead the industry with integrity"" -- Paying other people's taxes -- Investors beware -- Playing with fire -- Draining pockets -- How we beat the garbage gougers and their stinking high prices -- Fee fatigue -- ""Wells Fargo will take your house"" -- Giving to Goldman -- Please die soon -- Your 201(k) plan -- Wimpy's tab -- Pfizer's bitter pill -- Hollywood robbery -- Silly software -- Pilfering your paycheck -- Of commas and character -- What it all means -- Solutions -- Adding it all up -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch presents a sobering analysis of the ways everyday people are systematically victimized by corporate interests, revealing small-print tactics in commonplace consumer agreements while sharing recommendations for how to combat consumer-targeting abuses. Corporations Corrupt practices - AD LIT. Invoices - AD LIT.