One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The Corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy...

Provides information on setting up an S-corporation, covering such topics as developing a business plan, corporate bylaws, shareholders meetings, stocks, employee documents, business accounts, and taxation, along with a variety state-specific legals forms on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Follow investigative reporter Greg Palast as he busts the new KKK--the billionaire bandits that are behind a scheme to purge one million voters of color in November.

As a corporate 'undertaker' for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. On a trip that takes her to a desperate fishing town in Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: 'You're fired.' Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of the townspeople and a charming local fisherman, she begins to...

This book teaches concepts that are not well-appreciated or understood among lay investors--but are well known and appreciated among Wall Street insiders, dealmakers and certain enthusiasts. These ideas stand the test of time, reliably producing profits decade after decade. The greatest investors have a different approach to risk than most people. The author also examines the principles of wealth creation, and urges readers to take advantage of the...

Paxton never thought he'd be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that's eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he'd be moving into one of the company's sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what's left outside, Cloud's bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses ... well, it doesn't seem so bad. It's more than anyone else is offering. Zinnia never thought she'd be infiltrating...

"Olivia Sanchez--smart, driven, and beautiful--started at the bottom and worked her way up the ranks of a brokerage firm only to be unjustly, brutally fired, then blackballed. With no place else to go, she turns to her cousin, Manny Guzman, ex-con and ex-gang leader, for help. Manny's first instinct is to hit back. Hard. But his partner, James Beck knows that out in the real world, things aren't done that way. Beck, with a tight group of three other...

When an unpopular local dies in a suspicious accident, the husband-and-wife legal team of Joe and Lisa Stone are entangled in a corporate conspiracy that threatens their lives and Lisa's desperate secret.