It’s Worst Case Wednesday. And here’s the advice column I promised last week. Consider the following scenario: You’re at your desk, drinking $5 Starbucks and listening to the morning call. Three burly guys—Mack Truck faces—appear from nowhere on the...
(By a Leading Hedge Fund in Greenwich, CT) Times are tough. So to help out, I’m running the following job description submitted by a headhunter from Manhattan. This is an unpaid advertisement, which I’m featuring as a service to my readers. Job Ref. MN...
Hiring a dwarf to pose as a “small-cap” analyst isn’t funny. Shredding SIM cards is more effective than biting them in half. The SEC is awake. “Octopussy” is not a James Bond movie. McKinsey & Company’s publication,...
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to examine what money buys in the world of high finance—legitimate or otherwise. At the hedge fund named Galleon, $5,000 bought the right to tase an employee. When executives from stun-gun maker Taser International Inc. came...
The Death of Insider Trading II On Thursday, prosecutors charged fourteen more people with insider trading. The defendants all have links back to Galleon, in a corrupt web growing broader by the day. Acrimoney pays especially close attention to behavior on Wall Street...
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.