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Search on Facebook for “secret sister gift exchange” and you’ll find people posting and re-posting the same message over and over again. The message claims you can buy a gift for $10 or more, add your name to a list and then receive a bounty of 36 gifts. “A lot of friends are doing it, or at least posting about it. Doesn’t sound like a good idea,” Lauren Kidwell said. Kidwell said “secret sister” sounds a whole lot like a pyramid scam she saw years ago. “You only spend $10, get one gift for someone else. Everybody else sends you...

Because of the $3.8 billion WorldCom scandal and a few other corrupt companies, many critics are yelping that capitalism doesn't work and we need more government to fix things. Yet when Uncle Sam "mispays" $100 billion every year, those critics go mum. Washington's multi-billion dollar mismanagement, which dwarfs the problems in the free market, gets a pass year after year. "Reforms" to fix the government's pervasive accounting problems went into effect six years ago. Yet today, 83 percent of federal agencies are not in compliance with the law, reports Forbes magazine. That translates into an estimated $100 billion in erroneous...

Have you ever thought about becoming a distributor for a multi-level marketing company in order to make a little extra money or build a business working on your own?Multi-level marketing is a system of retailing in which consumer products are sold by independent businessmen and women (distributors) usually in customers' homes. You can set your own hours and earn money based on your efforts and ability to sell consumer products or services supplied to you, the distributor, by an established multi-level marketing company. The multi-level company also will encourage you to build and manage your own sales force by recruiting,...