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    Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation.: SHORT STORY # 59. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
    Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation.: SHORT STORY # 59. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
    Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation.: SHORT STORY # 59. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
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    Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation.: SHORT STORY # 59. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    By Alla P. Gakuba

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    Big scams in the USA that are destroying the American middle class, seniors, and the nation. Some of these scams are: dot-com; subprime mortgages; 0% interest rate; international disorder; higher education scam; private prison scams; sport and entertainment; tax scam; etc…

    It is not by an accident that from the above scams in the

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    PublisherKnow-How Skills
    Release dateDec 7, 2016
    ISBN9781943131891
    Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation.: SHORT STORY # 59. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

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      Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation. - Alla P. Gakuba

      Book Title

      BOOKS BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      Trilogy: motivational nonfiction short stories

      to teach logic, creativity, new skills, and

      self-esteem that would change readers lives:

      What Is Life? What Is Happiness?

      (Book 1)

      A Person Is a Product of Time, Place,

      and Circumstances

      (Book 2)

      How to Design Innovations and Solve

      Business and Personal Problems

      (Book 3)

      Fleurons

      Books are available on Amazon, in bookstores, and worldwide wherever books sold. Visit author’s website for free stories, extras and much more at www.allaPgakuba.com

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      At the end of this Short Story please see

      A LIST OF ALL INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES FROM NONFICTION SERIES #1 - #60

      BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      Book Title

      Copyright © 2017 by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD

      All rights reserved.

      SHORT STORY #59: Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation

      This is a motivational short story in the series of nonfiction short stories, #1– #60, by Alla P. Gakuba, BSCE, MAS, PhD. First edition.

      Logo Knowhow Skills

      pages cm

      Published by Know-How Skills, San Francisco Bay,

      California, USA;

      www.allapgakuba.com

      EPUB: ISBN 978–1–943131–89–1

      1. Political Science / Political Ideologies / General. 2. Political Science / Corruption & Misconduct. 3. Business & Economics / Economic Condition.

      KEYWORDS: 1. The Wall Street scams dot-com and subprime mortgages. 3. How the Wall Street resurrected today’s President Donald J. Trump, from bankruptcy. 4. Mr. Allen Greenspan – the Chairman of the Federal Reserve – interest rates policies. 5. How and why Mr. Ben Bernanke and Ms. Jenet Yellen are keeping 0% interest rate.

      First Edition 2017

      Story formatted into EPUB (Adobe InDesign) by: Marian Oprea

      Printed in the United States of America

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