Greed, Fear, and the Scammer’s Playbook: How Con Artists Find Your Buttons and Push Them
Every con artist, Ponzi schemer, and boiler room operator shares one skill above all others. They find your greed button and they press it.
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Every con artist, Ponzi schemer, and boiler room operator shares one skill above all others. They find your greed button and they press it.
Private equity has become the golden exit for thousands of entrepreneurs, but what happens after the check clears? I have been warning about what I call demonic musical chairs for decades, and the private equity world is one of its clearest examples.
There is a quiet crisis happening in American investing, and most people don’t even realize they’re caught in the middle of it. The mass affluent investor, someone with a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million, is being systematically ignored by the very industry that should be serving them.
Nobody wants to hear that their financial situation is the result of their own choices. But if you want to actually fix the problem, that’s exactly where the conversation has to start.
The wealth management industry is quietly drawing a line in the sand, and if you have less than a million dollars in liquid assets, you just fell on the wrong side of it. I’ve been watching this trend build for weeks, and what I’m seeing in the industry publications should make every ordinary investor furious.
December 2025 Absolutely disgusting. That’s the only way to describe what I’m watching unfold right now. I won’t even attempt to cover the full wave of pardons being issued — that alone would take pages. But I want to focus on one that crosses a line so clearly that it should disturb anyone with a […]
December 2025If you get ripped off as an investor — if you get scammed, misled, or trapped by a financial con artist — here’s the hard truth: you are left to the sharks. No cavalry is coming. No regulator is riding in at the last second to save you. That realization hit me again this […]
December 2025I’ve spent the better part of three decades exposing financial fraud, and one conclusion has become unavoidable: in this country, white-collar crime pays. Time and time again, highly educated offenders who steal millions — even billions — walk away with light penalties, limited accountability, and a future safely padded by whatever assets they’ve managed […]