There are dozens of books on the music business but none like this one, in most every book by an insider people love to talk about when good instincts paid off. In this book, we are turning the tables on that philosophy. We don't care how many times a person was right. We want to read about the time they were dead wrong. What they really learned from hard-won experience about what not to do in the future. We'll go behind closed doors of the most expensive mistakes ever made in the modern music industry as well as some common but lesser known ones that seven out of ten people make when starting out. Some of these mistakes will be taught first-hand, by the people who made them: record executives, managers, artists, producers who've worked with: Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Courtney Love, Madonna, Nickel Back, Twisted Sister, Dead Kennedys, Susan Vega, Chaka Khan, Debbie Gibson, Destiny's Child, Joan Osborne, Kurt Cobain, Paul Stanley, The Captain & Tenille, Jessica Simpson, Aerosmith, Pink, Ricky Martin, Dido, and literally dozens more.

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Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors. This book--winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal--begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul's $1.6 million loss and the essential lessons he learned from it--primarily that, although there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in them, all losses come from the same few sources. Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already made. Paul and Moynihan's cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the dangers of investing, trading, and speculating.

A stuffy college sophomore and a teenaged African American prostitute spend a weekend together caught up in cultural misunderstandings.

Choices about budget priorities are arguably the most important made by the federal government, profoundly affecting the well-being of citizens. Bruce Jansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that wasted trillions of dollars. Going beyond charges of corruption or bureaucratic waste, the book is an eye-opening exposé revealing innumerable useless projects (military as well as civilian), unnecessary tax concessions, and the use of interest payments to cover deficit spending, among other costly mistakes. Using Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues—and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.

A bank robbery and a banking mistake that adds a million dollars to the sixth grade's bank account help Ollie discover his real problem in playing baseball.

Everyone knows the success stories of the music industry – how Michael Jackson's Thriller blew the roof off and how Clive Davis helped orchestrate Carlos Santana's stunning comeback. But now you'll find out about people who were dead wrong. This book details some of the most expensive blunders ever made by artists and by record executives, managers and producers who've worked with stars such as Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, The Beatles, Madonna, Nickelback, Bob Dylan, Dido, The Rolling Stones, and dozens more. From contract and copyright screw-ups to sheer arrogance and lying, this book includes eye-opening revelations on: the pitfalls of employing a family member, the marketability of suicide, the industry's accepted levels of lies and thievery, and much, much more.