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	Religious Confidence Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since confidence games are commonly played by individual people, it would be surprising if some institutions had not developed confidence games to obtain money and resources from their members.
		The confidence games can be valuable to the rich and powerful people in the society by helping maintain the status quo and their privileges.
		There are various religious confidence games, such as posthumous rewards and punishments, the answering of prayers, the members being chosen by God, and the religious leader's intercessions with God on behalf of the members.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/nov_2000/rel_games.htm (6322 words)

	Spanish Prisoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In its original form, the confidence artist tells his victim (the mark) that he is in correspondence with a wealthy person of high estate who has been imprisoned in Spain (originally by King Philip II) under a false identity.
		The confidence artist offers to let the mark supply some of the money, with a promise that he will be rewarded generously when the prisoner returns both financially and by being married to the prisoner's beautiful daughter.
		The confidence artist will often claim to have chosen the mark carefully based on his reputation for honesty and straight dealing, and may appear to structure the deal so that the confidence artist's ultimate share of the reward will be distributed voluntarily by the mark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_Prisoner (301 words)

	Encyclopedia: Confidence game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sometimes conmen rely on naïve individuals who put their confidence in get-rich-quick schemes such as 'too good to be true' investments.
		Some religious cults have been described by their critics as confidence tricks.
		Some popular psychology confidence tricksters make money by falsely claiming to improve reading speed and comprehension using speed reading courses by fooling the consumer with inappropriate skimming and general knowledge tests.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Confidence-game (1097 words)

	The Government Confidence Game
		It was misplaced confidence that caused bad investments to be made in the first place.
		Increasing confidence for its own sake would simply be recreating the same situation where unwarranted confidence led to error.
		Since the government has arrogated the role of ensuring confidence, and thereby subsidized the confidence-deficient, regulation is an obvious string attached to such a subsidy.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/lasley1.html (627 words)

	Gus Treta Station - The Confidence Game Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Another good way for newbies to improve their game and their confidence level is to talk to the locals; it's far easier to face a good player if he's more than just a face and a high rating, and you can learn a lot just by listening to those with more experience.
		Winning the confidence game does not guarantee you a win, but it will help you to better understand how the deck reacts to your moves and gives you a better chance at beating it the next time around.
		If you remain confident, you may see an opportunity to lower the differential or even swing the game in your favor, but by allowing yourself to think of the game as already being over you may let opportunities like that slide right under your nose.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Keep/5715/Articles/ConfidenceArticle1.html (1910 words)

	The Confidence Game
		When confidence is up, consumers are likely to spend more money, which gives the economy a further boost.
		But here’s a little-noticed fact: How confident you are about the economy depends largely on how much your family is earning.
		This confidence gap may help explain something of a widening sales gap between companies that sell to these two different groups of consumers.
	www.robertreich.org /reich/20040707.asp (372 words)

	Confidence game - The Confidence Man - Books & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Confidence Game PM Vohor Seeks Stability Through Legislation One of these seeks to prohibit votes of no confidence in the first two years and final
		The Confidence Game (23 May 2004) Planning to test a design’s usability addresses the fears of the unknown.
		By Christopher H. Schmitt Kanter contends that confidence is the key to achieving success and maintaining it.
	www.hotsitemap.com /hsm/confidence-game.html (206 words)

	israelinsider: Confidence game
		A basic premise of Oslo, and the foundation of all Palestinian obligations, is recognition of Israel's right to exist coupled with a complete renunciation of violence on their part and a decision to resolve all differences by negotiation.
		Instead, let's rebuild confidence by stopping the murder of Israelis, the anti-Jewish rhetoric and glorification of martyrdom in the Palestinian media and schools, the re-arrest of the Palestinian murderers, and the collection of illegal Palestinian weapons.
		The call to rebuild Palestinian confidence is merely a confidence game, which Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary defines as "any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler."
	www.israelinsider.com /views/articles/views_0187.htm (482 words)

	ipedia.com: Confidence trick Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons usually with the goal of financial or other gain.
		Confidence tricks in general exploit the inherent greed and dishonesty of their victims; it has been said by confidence tricksters that it was impossible to con a completely honest man. Often, the mark tries to out-cheat the conmen, only to discover that they have been manipulated into this.
		Sometimes conmen rely on naive individuals who put their confidence in get-rich-quick schemes such as 'too good to be true' investments.
	www.ipedia.com /confidence_trick.html (774 words)

	The Confidence Game Overview
		Although a final copy was cut and edited and put on tape, we still do not have a final version of the movie.
		But what Confidence Game did us as students and actors were more than amateurish.
		The movie gave us all a lot of experience and confidence, and there is always a special place in my heart for this movie because it, was a great learning experience, and we simply had a lot of fun with it.
	hamsterwheel1.tripod.com /congame.html (333 words)

	GolfDigest.com - Confidence Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was certainly a lot harder than during her two previous years in the event, a win and a tie for second.
		Even before the first questions, she rambled on about the poor state of her game, and her English, now usually almost fluent, began to revert to the nearly unintelligible syntax she had displayed at the beginning of her career.
		Pak waited until she returned to Florida to rebuild her game, although she doesn't seem to be toiling much as she sits in a golf cart near the range at MetroWest GC in southwest Orlando, during a break from her daylong session.
	golfdigest.com /newsandtour/index.ssf?/newsandtour/gw20050218pak.html (2550 words)

	Confidence Game - Special Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Confidence Game is the story of a spy, Elzith Kar, who has been forcibly retired from service because she has identifying scars.
		I began work on this world in 1986, when a friend of mine gave me her notes to a book she had started and asked me to finish it.
		The Bright and the Dark, the sequel to Confidence Game, is coming in August 2004.
	www.sff.net /people/mmwelch/game-features.html (621 words)

	The Confidence Game
		The trouble is, sometimes we aren't confident, or we aren't passionate.
		At these times, trying to have confidence is actually playing a "con" fidence game on yourself.
		Instead of going directly for the confidence, get what your heart is needing now, through a practice like the Remembrance, or meditation.
	www.selfgrowth.com /articles/Silver1.html (686 words)

	Congress’s Confidence Game
		The primary aim of the bills now on Capitol Hill, many lawmakers admit, is to "restore investor confidence." This is a desirable goal, especially if you’re a stock broker or anyone else who stands to benefit from short- to medium-term rises in stock prices.
		However, if investors’ confidence is being restored through politics and posturing, and not through any measures that will really make things work better, the government is pulling a WorldCom.
		That means Bachus is willing to pass regulations he understands will raise the costs of business and may fail to prevent future shenanigans, as long as their passage and implementation make investors believe the new rules will make things better.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/tcarney2.html (487 words)

	Confidence Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By employing Tod to bind books for Jereth, Varzin manipulates the unwitting judge into Tod’s confidence, and as Jereth moves closer to Tod, he moves closer to Elzith.
		He senses that Elzith is torn by pain and guilt that she has never been able to release, and he wants to help her.
		Confidence becomes Elzith's consolation, and it becomes her downfall, as Tod grows nearer and Varzin begins to close in.
	www.sff.net /people/mmwelch/game.html (300 words)

	Three Card Monte Explanation
		Three card monte, also known as the Three-Card Trick, Follow The Lady or Find the Lady, is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that he can find the money card, for example the Queen of Spades, among three face-down cards.
		In its full form, the three card Monte is an example of a classic short con in which the outside man pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the inside man, while in fact conspiring with the inside man to cheat the mark.
		The three card Monte game itself is very simple; a dealer places three cards face down on a table (often a cardboard box that can be quickly taken away), shows that one of the cards is the Queen of Spades, and then rearranges the cards quickly to confuse the player about which card is which.
	www.leeasher.com /three_card_monte.htm (601 words)

	USNews.com: Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the confidence game (9/13/04)
		In life, confidence can be all the difference between success and failure, mastery and misfortune.
		Using disparate examples of confidence at work--from the supremacy of the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, which sometimes beat arguably superior talent to win championships, to the turnaround of consumer products giant Gillette Co.--Kanter contends that confidence is the key to achieving success and maintaining it.
		Years of investment in reshaping its corporate culture had produced an institutional confidence that Continental was able to deftly draw upon to surmount a dire situation, says the 61-year-old Kanter.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/040913/13eekanter.htm (630 words)

	SSRN-The Investor Confidence Game by Lynn Stout
		Current legal scholarship tends to assume, with little discussion, that investors have "confidence" when they have information that assures them that the incentives provided by the law and by the markets are adequate to constrain corporate insiders and securities professionals from shirking, stealing, and other forms of opportunistic behavior.
		This article argues that the phenomenon of investor confidence can be understood far better if we assume not that investors have rational expectations, but that they have what economists call "adaptive expectations".
		One of the most important is that trust may be subject to "history effects." If an individual or institution has behaved cooperatively in the past, trusting investors tend to assume that that institution or individual will behave cooperatively in the future - even if incentives change so that cooperation is no longer advantageous.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=322301 (517 words)

	E-Commerce News: News: The E-Commerce Confidence Game
		"Consumer confidence is greatly affected by labor market conditions, and the high-tech sector is undergoing dramatic changes in labor conditions right now, so confidence is lower in that sector than in other industries," Franco said.
		Other analysts believe that during a period of low confidence, e-tailers have a golden opportunity to capture new buyers.
		To be sure, not too many e-tailers are going to be disappointed by the March consumer confidence index rise.
	www.ecommercetimes.com /story/8433.html (929 words)

	Confidence game \| PortlandTribune.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They are averaging 38 points and 457 yards per game and 5.84 yards per play, converting 40 percent of third downs and averaging about 10 minutes more in possession time.
		Ludwig prefers Kellen Clemens to operate his offense, proven by the fact the sophomore has started all four games, started the second half of all four games and played on all but one crucial drive (Jason Fife entered into an intense situation in the second half against Michigan).
		Either team will have full confidence in leaving the game up to its kicker, Drew Dunning for WSU or Jared Siegel for Oregon.
	www.portlandtribune.com /archview.cgi?id=20401 (1659 words)

	Confidence game - The Confidence Game - EXPERT ADVICE - CIO Magazine Oct 15,2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Confidence Game - CSO Magazine - April 2004
		Like religion and economics, life is a confidence game in which the challenge is not Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Confidence Games:
		The Confidence Game By Tony DiCicco tonydco@attbi.com 4-10-2.
	iseeklinks.com /q/confidence-game.htm (251 words)

	Gold and Fiat Currencies - The Confidence Game
		The "con"fidence is that the country's currency is "valuable" because of the country's economic and military strength.
		The "con"fidence in what I said would be zero.
		However, if you were to watch the evening news and a prominent scientist also said there were inhabitants on Mars, your "con"fidence would go to perhaps 15%.
	www.rense.com /general23/gold.htm (1616 words)

	Boxes and Arrows: The Confidence Game
		These questions matter because a client’s confidence comes into play when selecting a vendor, deciding whether or not to adopt a consultant’s recommendations, and even in deciding whether to hire a designer at all.
		The show has a format that leaves everybody feeling confident in the project’s success from beginning to end, as we should expect from a cable channel that sells design.
		The “Magic Fax Machine Test” is a thought experiment you might consider to determine the importance of the source of a design as a means clients use to evaluate it.
	www.boxesandarrows.com /archives/the_confidence_game.php (2115 words)

	"Win The Confidence Game"
		If heroes are in demand, that means there is a steady supply of would-be heroes.
		Thus, The Confidence Game is by far one of the world's most fiercely played.
		The Confidence Game is just that, a game.
	www.epicinternet.com /articles/article-008328.htm (408 words)

	Confidence Game
		Gaze into a looking-glass a declare with total confidence, "I am working on an epic novel." An epic novel will take a very long time to complete and people will respect what they perceive as your devotion to your craft.
		It is true that bad company corrupts good morals and that you are judged by the company you keep.
		I am certain that once you experience the way in which a writer is esteemed by those folks who only dream of attaining such a lofty position, you will quickly gain confidence and grow into your role.
	www.absolutewrite.com /fun/confidence_game.htm (991 words)

	Column Two: The confidence game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brian R. Krause has written an article on developing client confidence in a design.
		How does anybody develop enough confidence in a design to move it toward the real world?
		The methods designers use to evaluate user interfaces require training and experience.
	www.steptwo.com.au /columntwo/archives/001283.html (102 words)

	Confidence Game
		Survey results from a Business Week poll measuring confidence in various institutions.
		A most intriguing table appeared in the March 13 edition of Business Week.
		It was based on a Business Week/Harris Poll survey in which respondents were asked (among other questions), "As far as people in charge of running each of the following are concerned, would you say that you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them?" The results:
	www.inc.com /magazine/19950501/2253.html (141 words)

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