Sentences with phrase «own snakeoil»

They realized it was nothing more than a glorified presser, and worse, yet another example of Silicon Valley's blindness for snakeoil.

LaVorgna is a hack who has spent his career on Wall Street preaching fairytales about the economy as a means of assisting the snakeoil salesmen at his bank in their efforts to stuff as much high - commission junk into investor accounts as possible.

But the sleazebag snakeoil promoters cite Glencore as having $ 19 billion in «liquid» inventories so the debt number that gets quoted and widely accepted is $ 31 billion.

When are black folks going to wake up from worshiping these «triflin», profit driven, self centered snakeoil salesmen?

As for preachers, well, we all know what a snakeoil salesman is, don't we?

@Micheal, Chapel Hill, yes and its you religious hypocritical righties that proclaim one thing but do another.It's your Billy Graham who railed against the Mormon cult of Romneys but just recently blessed his campaign and took down the site against Mormonism.Just how much was placed in Grahams hand as a donation to change his mind and remember you religious, sanctumonious ones are the ones wanting everything to help your fellow brethren taken away remember in ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, SocialSecurity, anything to help the people of this proud country.It all comes down to money doesn't it hypocrites hidden behind the smokescreen of religion, just take your snakeoil mentality somewhere else, its not wanted or needed here!!

Now the snakeoil salesmen will have to move to the next «do as little as possible» profession... probably politics.

Old Al Gore the snakeoil salesman was onto a good thing here and will probably go down in history as the worlds greatest conman.

There's a bit of an exacerbated chicken - and - egg problem here, in that serious security technologies are far more expensive than weak technologies or snakeoil, but until we have (expensively!)

demonstrated the pricey ones are viable, the snakeoil vendors will easily be able to discourage the people with money to spend from trying competing approaches.