If you are looking for some springtime reading, then books about financial swindles, scandals, and scams should interest you. All these books are non-fiction, the real thing, and provide true stories that are pretty incredible.
I have real all of these books, except the last one, and I highly recommend all of them. Enjoy.
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
You have probably heard of the Silk Road but do you know anything about the guy behind it? How he started it, how it grew beyond his or anyone’s wildest dreams, and how money and power can corrupt. It also corrupted some members of law enforcement. An amazing story and a book that reads like a page-turner mystery.
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
If you have seen the Wolf of Wall Street movie, but you don’t know where the money came from to make the movie, you need to read this book! How billions were swindled with the help of a major investment banking company. The parties were unbelievable, and included such guests as Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton. The jewelry was unbelievable. The yachts were unbelievable.
Alligator Blood by James Leighton
An Australian in his 20s goes from delivering pizzas to becoming one of the richest people in Australia from online poker. What happens next …
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
A timely book these days. How the author made a huge amount of money trading Russian shares, and the dark consequences of doing so.
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
About, Steve Cohen, SAC Capital, insider trading, government investigators, and billions of dollars in profits.
The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess by Turney Duff
Autobiographical story of sex, drugs, hedge funds, and lots of money.
The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History by David Enrich
Have not read this yet, but it’s on my next non-fiction book to read. 4.5 stars on Amazon.
Happy reading!
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is about an author who takes a new drug which causes him to become extremely intelligent and astute. He becomes a stock trader who turns $12,000 into $3 million in a week.
, a classic Wall Street movie starring Michael Douglas.
is the sequel.
is the extreme Martin Scorsese movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about Jordan Belfort, the infamous pump-and-dumper.
is about a Wall Street guy who turns into a werewolf. Not my kind of movie, but if you are into this kind of campy genre…
is an interesting documentary about the rise and fall of govWorks.com, during the dot com boom and bust.
is an expose on the Enron scam, and the people behind it.
is another good documentary about the Enron crooks.
is a movie, not a documentary about what else, Enron.
is a movie about the financial crisis of 2008, starring James Woods.
is a documentary about a financial con man.
is an Academy Award winning documentary about the financial crisis of 2008, Starring Matt Damon.
is a documentary about the credit bubble and economic crash.
is a doc about the young startup founders of Vimeo, Soundcloud and Dropbox.
is a movie I really enjoyed, since it is based on a true story and gives insights into how a stock brokerage firm operating as a boiler room works.