Feb 14, 2022 | Economics / Financial, Investment, MLM
A New York Times article this week reported that the most significant, and likely the most persuasive, advertisements on the most famous advertising platform of the year – the American Super Bowl – will be for Crypto currencies and NFTs. There will, of course, be...
Dec 28, 2020 | False Profits, Individual / Social Impact, News
The fascinating and shocking documentary on HBO, The Vow, is a gripping true story about a strikingly unremarkable person, Keith Raniere, who somehow made dozens of young women his “sex slaves.” As part of a cultic program that he named, NXIVM, pretentiously...Jan 28, 2020 | News, PSA in the Media
Is “multi-level marketing just a new form of “direct selling” or is it something entirely different, only disguised as “direct selling”? Was MLM rooted in business and opportunity or in deception and delusion — right from the start?...
Apr 5, 2019 | Ethics, False Profits, Pyramid Scheme Politics
“Calling a person a “liar” used to be one of the worst things you could say about somebody personally,” a friend recently commented. He was referring, ruefully, to the president of the United States being routinely characterized as a liar,...Mar 17, 2014 | Legal, News
The two top legal experts in America on pyramid schemes, attorneys Douglas M. Brooks and Bruce Craig, carefully researched and evaluated the federal court cases that define and outlaw pyramid selling schemes under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. They...