Description:
From the earliest financial scams of the 17th 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 and even former Mossad agents.
History of Greed is the compelling inside story of the names you know — Charles Ponzi, Baron Rothschild, Lou Pearlman — and the names you don’t — Isaac Le Maire, the world’s first “naked” short-seller. It’s also our story — why we ignore the lessons of the past and fall prey, most every time, to the promise of easy money.
Product Details:
Copyright 2010
ISBN 978-0-470-60180-8
Hardcover, 398 Pages
John Wiley & Sons Publishing
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Selling Air
Chapter 2: Crash Postmortem
Chapter 3: Why We Do It
Chapter 4: Securities Fraud
Chapter 5: The Perils of Greed
Chapter 6: The Elements of Financial Fraud
Chapter 7: "Other People's Money"
Chapter 8: Smaller-Company Fraud
Chapter 9: Selling Long and Short
Chapter 10: Market Manipulation
Chapter 11: PIPEs
Chapter 12: Promotion Fraud
Chapter 13: Leaks, Front-Running, and Insider Trading
Chapter 14: Fictitious Volume
Chapter 15: Parachute into Prison
Chapter 16: Affinity Group Fraud
Chapter 17: Twentieth-Century Ponzi Schemes
Chapter 18: Hit Charade
Chapter 19: Hedge Fund Ponzi Fraud
Chapter 20: Madoff and the World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme
Chapter 21: How Madoff Got Away with It
Chapter 22: Madoff Plea and Its Aftermath
Chapter 23: Mopping up after Madoff
Chapter 24: Other Recent Ponzi Schemes
Chapter 25: Stanford Group
Chapter 26: Ultimate Chutzpah
Chapter 27: Detecting Fraudulent Financial Schemes
Chapter 28: Fraudulent Offerings
Chapter 29: Auction-Rate Securities
Chapter 30: $132 Million Tax-Free Exchange Fraud
Chapter 31: Not Smart
Chapter 32: Boiler Rooms
Chapter 33: Accounting Frauds
Chapter 34: Stock Option Frauds
Chapter 35: Odd and Unusual Financial Frauds
Afterword: What Does the Future Hold?