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Praise for HISTORY OF GREED

"David Sarna is a visionary technologist. He is also a sophisticated investor and financier. He has written a readable, comprehensive, fascinating, and well-researched book that explores troublesome aspects of the financial system in a way only an experienced insider could."
—Jay N. Goldberg, Senior Managing Director, Hudson Ventures

"A comprehensive review of what has happened to us in our financial markets over and over and over and over again. It's an important history, written with wit and delivered with wisdom. Undoubtedly, History of Greed will become required reading for anyone serious about understanding the capital markets."
—Frederick L. Gorsetman, Founder and Managing Member, Oxbridge Financial Group, LLC

400 years of financial fraud in the making

From the earliest financial scams of the seventeenth century, through the headline-grabbing Wall Street scandals of our times, History of Greed provides a comprehensive history of financial fraud. In it, David E. Y. Sarna exposes the true and often riveting stories of how both naïve and sophisticated investors alike were fooled by unscrupulous entrepreneurs, lawyers, hedge fund managers, CPAs, Texas billionaires, political fundraisers, music managers, financial advisers, and even former Mossad agents. From the people behind the financial fraud and how they did it to why people continually fall prey to scam artists, Sarna outlines what actions you can take today to protect yourself from becoming the victim of tomorrow's "too good to be true" investment opportunity. History of Greed details how markets are manipulated, books are cooked, Ponzi schemes are hatched, and how the government only closes the barn door once the cows have all escaped.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470601808
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2010
Edition number: 1
Pages: 398
Sales rank: 835,499
Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

David E. Y. Sarna is a serial entrepreneur who founded three companies, sold one, and successfully took two public. He is also a technologist and a writer. Mr. Sarna is also the creator of several popular blogs, including GreedWatcher.comSM, GoogleGazer.comSM, and EyeOnTheCloud.comSM. He has authored four books, written over 120 articles, was a founding regional director of the Microsoft Developers Network, and is a popular and award-winning speaker with multiple national television appearances on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Selling Air.

Why Now?

Chapter 2 Crash Postmortem.

How Greed, Hubris, and Lack of Supervision Did Investors In.

Chapter 3 Why We Do It.

Bubbles and Fraud.

Chapter 4 Securities Fraud.

Its Long and Storied Past.

Chapter 5 The Perils of Greed.

It’s All for the Easy Money.

Chapter 6 The Elements of Financial Fraud.

A Case Study with "Crazy Eddie" Antar.

Chapter 7 "Other People's Money".

The O.P.M. Leasing Fraud.

Chapter 8 Smaller-Company Fraud.

The "ISC" Story.

Chapter 9 Selling Long and Short.

But Mostly Short.

Chapter 10 Market Manipulation.

Improper Short Selling and Other Abuses.

Chapter 11 PIPEs.

Investing Unfairly.

Chapter 12 Promotion Fraud.

Pump and Dump.

Chapter 13 Leaks, Front-Running, and Insider Trading.

Test Yourself.

Chapter 14 Fictitious Volume.

A Pump-and-Dump Scam with Intrigue.

Chapter 15 Parachute into Prison.

U.S. v. Schrenker.

Chapter 16 Affi nity Group Fraud.

Scamming Your Own Community.

Chapter 17 Twentieth-Century Ponzi Schemes.

Larger and Longer-Lasting Scams.

Chapter 18 Hit Charade.

Lou Pearlman.

Chapter 19 Hedge Fund Ponzi Fraud.

Hedge Funds Are for Big Boys.

Chapter 20 Madoff and the World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme.

The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.

Chapter 21 How Madoff Got Away with It.

Who Helped Plot in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes; Who Can Be Made to Pay?

Chapter 22 Madoff Plea and Its Aftermath.

Governments Go after Merkin, Kohn, and Maybe Others in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.

Chapter 23 Mopping up after Madoff.

Lawyers Feast on Madoff Feeders in the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.

Chapter 24 Other Recent Ponzi Schemes.

Madoff was a Crook but He Had No Monopoly on Recent Ponzi Schemes.

Chapter 25 Stanford Group.

Massive $7 Billion, Multinational Fraud Comes to Light.

Chapter 26 Ultimate Chutzpah.

The Strange Tale of Marc Dreier, Esq.

Chapter 27 Detecting Fraudulent Financial Schemes.

How Much to Regulate? How Much to Verify?

Chapter 28 Fraudulent Offerings.

A Short Look.

Chapter 29 Auction-Rate Securities

A $330 Billion Fraud?

Chapter 30 $132 Million Tax-Free Exchange Fraud.

Section 1031.

Chapter 31 Not Smart.

The Smart Online Trading Scam.

Chapter 32 Boiler Rooms.

Where the Heat Rises.

Chapter 33 Accounting Frauds.

With Examples.

Chapter 34 Stock Option Frauds.

Alchemy That Benefi ts Insiders.

Chapter 35 Odd and Unusual Financial Frauds.

Not Your Everyday Fraud.

Afterword: What Does the Future Hold?

Notes.

About the Author.

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LonnaH

Posted September 15, 2010

Investment lessons.

In an age of financial hardship and scandal, "History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff" by David Sarna is a book that exposes the truth. He takes a look at financial fraud from past centuries and how it affects families and cultures. The book is well written and easy to read by the financial savvy as well as those not as savvy. He does a great job of stressing financial responsibility and skepticism for the investments that seem too good to be true.

After reading this book, I have learned that just because someone has a degree in financial management and investment banking does not mean they are going to look out for your best interest. For every honest investment specialist there is another who will take your money and run. I highly recommend this book for everyone looking to invest.

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