Book description
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.
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.
