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HBO Documentary, The Vow, Covers Up Core Fact  about NXIVM and Keith Raniere

HBO Documentary, The Vow, Covers Up Core Fact about NXIVM and Keith Raniere

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...
Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

Mar 4, 2020 | Economics / Financial, Individual / Social Impact, MLM, News, PSA in the Media

Yahoo Finance’s remarkable 3-episode podcast on multi-level marketing, Illegal Tender, Season 4, should be recognized as a milestone in business media coverage of MLM. For the first time – without equivocation and without entertaining even a hint of...
Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

New Book “Ponzinomics” Reveals how Politics, not Law, Protects MLM and Lets It Continue Pyramid Recruiting

Jan 13, 2020 | False Profits, Legalities and Laws, Pyramid Scheme Politics

People who free themselves from “MLM” painfully discover an intertwining web of fake income promises, pretenses to “direct selling” and cruel manipulations to induce false hope and constant purchasing. Yet, there is one more layer of deception they often do not...
Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

News Media Keep Taking the Bait of MLM “Products”

Jun 14, 2019 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, MLM, News

It is often said that recognizing “pyramid schemes” is difficult, complex, and confusing. Over the years that I studied “multi-level marketing”, I came to realize that the challenge of recognizing pyramid schemes is not complexity or disguise; it is political...
Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

Trump’s “MLM” Experience Laid Foundation for his Politics

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,...
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