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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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, LLC400 years of financial fraud in the makingFrom 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. Zusammenfassung In his new book, History of Greed, noted financial fraud expert David E.Y. Sarna posits that the major scandals that came to light in 2008, like most of those in the last two hundred years are just the superficial manifestations of a system that, at its core, is based on fraud, greed and dishonesty. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Fr...
