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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...