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When Laura’s here, though…I wouldn’t go so far as to say she actively likes my parents, but she certainly thinks that parents generally are a good thing, and that therefore their little quirks and idiocies are there to be loved, not exposed. She treats my father’s fibs and boasts and non sequiturs as waves, giant breakers, and she surfs over them with skill and pleasure.
Control frauds almost always report fabulous profits, and top-tier audit firms bless those financial statements. The S&L control frauds used a fraud mechanism that produced record profits and virtually no loan defaults, and had the ability to quickly transform any (real) loss found by an examiner into a (fictitious) gain that would be blessed by a Big 8 audit firm. It doesn’t get any better than this in the world of fraud! Chapter 3 discusses this fraud mechanism.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
At a young age I came to know that there is something profoundly hollow about the nature of fame. I had spent my life devoted to artistic growth and was used to the sweaty-palmed sense of contentment one gets after many hours of intense reflection. This peaceful feeling had nothing to do with external adulation, and I yearned for a return to that innocent, fertile time. I missed just being a student of the game, but there was no escaping the spotlight. I found myself dreading chess, miserable before leaving for tournaments. I played without inspiration and was invited to appear on television shows. I smiled. Then when I was eighteen years old I stumbled upon a little book called the Tao Te Ching, and my life took a turn.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
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