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confidence game n. the obtaining of money from others through trick or swindle, generally by gaining the victim's trust and confidence. (See: swindle)

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In the face of the booms and busts of the capitalist economy, the confidence game of shrewd deception and cool risk taking was often what was required--and secretly admired. Against all odds by Tumber, Catherine / Commonweal This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic, the confidence game. Confidence men: why the myth of Republican competence persists, ... by Marshall, Joshua Micah / Washington Monthly If it sounds a bit like a confidence game, that may be because it's public confidence that gives money value in the first place. The Art of the Deal by Walker, Jesse / Reason More results

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In the face of the booms and busts of the capitalist economy, the confidence game of shrewd deception and cool risk taking was often what was required--and secretly admired.

Against all odds by Tumber, Catherine / Commonweal

This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic, the confidence game.

Confidence men: why the myth of Republican competence persists, ... by Marshall, Joshua Micah / Washington Monthly

If it sounds a bit like a confidence game, that may be because it's public confidence that gives money value in the first place.

The Art of the Deal by Walker, Jesse / Reason

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