Some of these methods, such as encouraging customers to max out their credit cards and playing psychological tricks on them, are familiar from the world of time-shares and other dodgy industries.
Every character in the novel is shady: there are dodgy oil-industry execs, females who set honey-traps, and plain, old-fashioned muggers.
His task was to restore investor confidence battered by news of rampant corporate malfeasance even as new scams widespread trading abuses in the mutual-fund industry, dodgy dealings in insurance were coming to light.
Beneath these is a long tail of smaller operators, many of them online, from the legitimate to the thoroughly dodgy.As in any industry, incorporation includes a mix of wholesalers and retailers.
Emergency laws imposing tighter regulations on providers in the VET Fee-Help scheme cleared parliament in early December, following a torrent of complaints and concerns about dodgy practices in the industry.
Mr Galbraith, for his part, blames the industry's dodgy reputation mainly on the politicians, not the lobbyists.The problem is not so much outright corruption as opacity; citizens cannot tell whether political decisions are made for objective reasons or because politicians have been influenced by the best-funded lobbyists.
Undaunted by the tsunami of ridicule that greeted such a dodgy prognosis, the pharmaceutical industry is at it again, floating a new disease -- female sexual dysfunction, or FSD -- and proposing a dazzling array of costly pills, creams, inserts, and worse -- much, much worse -- to "cure" it.
The implication is that this dirt-poor nation's booming garment industry, while dodgy, is a sign of progress as long as Rana Plaza leads to more worker protection, a rise in monthly wages to over $68, and safety accords (things which are still a work in progress).
Public-sector lenders that dominate the banking industry now have dodgy loans of 10-12% of the total.
