Sam Vaknin
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Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong?
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Advertising
- 761 words
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The decline in Internet advertising - though paralleled by a similar...
Alice in Credit Card Land
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1076 words
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Your credit card is stolen. You place a phone call to the number provided in your tourist guide or in the local daily press. You provide your details and you cancel your card. You block it. In a few minutes, it should be transferred to the stop-list ...
The Business of Torture
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1055 words
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The European Court of Human Rights agreed yesterday - more than two years after the applications have been filed - to hear six cases filed by Chechens against Russia. The claimants accuse the Russian military of torture and indiscriminate killings. T...
The Demise of the Mittelstand
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1609 words
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According to a survey of German executives by the influential Ifo think tank, German business confidence rose in January for the first time in eight months - albeit imperceptibly, from 87.3 to 87.4. A poll conducted by ZEW, another brain trust, confi...
The Morality of Child Labor
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1229 words
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How to cope with your abuser?...
Money Laundering in A Changed World - Part II
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1313 words
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Money Laundering in the Wake of the September 11 Attacks...
Money Laundering in A Changed World - Part I
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 729 words
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Israel has always turned a blind eye to the origin of funds deposited by Jews from South Africa to Russia. In Britain it is perfectly legal to hide the true ownership of a company. Underpaid Asian bank clerks on immigrant work permits in the Gulf sta...
The Typology of Financial Scandals
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1973 words
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Tulipmania - this is the name coined for the first pyramid investment scheme in history....
Corruption and Transparency - Part I
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1278 words
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I. The Facts...
The Myth of the Earnings Yield
- By Sam Vaknin
- 01/1/2005
- Business
- 1233 words
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In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the future stream of dividends emanating from their share holdings to send their kids to college or as collateral. Yet, dividends seemed to have gone the way of the Hula-Hoop. Few...

