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The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance Hardcover – October 14, 2010

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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Press; First Edition edition (October 14, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594202729
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594202728
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5.0 out of 5 starsFerdinand Pecora and the Repudiation of Wall Street's "You're Just Not Sophisticated Enough to Get It" Argument
By Banking & Finance on October 21, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Michael Perino presents the definitive account of a chapter of our national history that has too quickly receded from our collective memory. In 1933, four years after the Great Crash, although "banksters" of Wall Street were decried for their arrogance and deceit throughout America, the politicians in Congress seemed poised to capitulate to the perennial Wall Street argument that "finance was just too complicated to delegate to the democratic process." The implicit invitation from Wall Street: Just trust us. We know what we are doing. We are essential to the American economy. Leave all regulation to us. The math is just too hard, the vocabulary just too arcane, the stakes just too high. If that sounds familiar, it should: the argument has been made at every juncture where the regulation of finance is at stake.

Perino gives us the account of how that entire system of thinking--for one of the first, and frankly, one of the last times in our nation's history--was dumped on its head by the scrappy former District Attorney, Ferdinand Pecora. In the span of just ten days, with only a few weeks' preparation, this lawyer--no finance whiz--revealed in plain terms the extent of the deceit that created the deluge of participation by Moms and Pops throughout the country in the nation's securities markets. Rather than people going simply crazy for the thrills of market speculation, many of those who lost their savings in the stock market were duped into participation by slick, persistent salesmen armed with outright lies about the reliability of the securities they peddled. Perino's presentation of some of the letters written to Pecora during this investigation is particularly harrowing.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWow!
By Miriam on November 5, 2010
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A famous "someone" once said, "Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it". That is certainly true of the financial situation today.

The Hellhound of Wall Street is a very well written and penetrating look at one set of congressional hearings held in 1933, examining the role of National City Bank (now CitiBank) and its president Charles E. Mitchell, in the cause of the 1929 crash and its aftermath. It tells the tale using the story of the fantastic lawyer who did the research and asked all the right questions in order to expose what was subsequently called the "banksters" role in manipulating stocks, bonds, and the public without the least hint of moral or ethical considerations.

The echoes it sends down to today are chilling, in that it proves that the government, and the people, never seem to learn. We expect business to police its own activities to create a fair and functioning free market. Great expectations are rarely met.

When did we lose having lawyers conduct congressional hearings, and leave it up to 5 minutes of questioning each by unknowledgeable and ill prepared politicians. If the right questions aren't asked, how can we get the right answers?

I highly recommend this timely and riveting read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Gripping Piece of History
By Dan K on October 25, 2010
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Michael Perino's meticulous research takes us back to 1933, as if it was our current financial crises. His keen detail and presentation of the story keeps the reader so informed of the important aspects of the country's financial and banking crises it is hard to put the book down. I'm looking forward to the big screen version (but only if Perino writes the screenplay) as well as his next book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMajor cause of the Great Depression
By J>M> Steinberg on November 4, 2010
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The Hellhound of Wall Street is masterful account of how an unlikely attorney, Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian born immigrant, took over a faltering 1933 Senate investigation and turned it around to expose how the malfeasance and practices of the Wall Street elite was a major causal factor of the 1929 depression. The Pecora hearings laid the groundwork for the enactment of the New Deal's security and banking laws designed to regulate the uncontrolled practices in the banking and securities arenas. Indeed, The Hellhound of Wall Street by Michael Perino is a prologue of major abuses in our financial markets over the past decade that have adversely impacted the current state of our economy - new games and new tricks.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTen Days that Stirred the Financial World
By Acute Observer on February 5, 2011
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The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino

Michael Perino is a Professor at St. John's University School of Law who testified before Congress and consulted with the SEC. In March 1933 the USA was in the Great Depression. One in four families lost their life savings from thousands of bank failures. Unemployment was at 25%, industrial production was half of what it was in 1929. Farm incomes had been dropping since 1921. People were ill-fed and ill-housed. The Stock Exchange closed on March 3, 1933 (`Introduction'). FDR planned to attack the Great Depression; he blamed Wall Street for their swindles that impoverished the nation. Ferdinand Pecora had just finished the Senate hearings that exposed Wall Street's looting of investors (p.4). It led to "strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments". Pecora's investigation and the scandals aroused public opinion for reform (p.5). Charles Mitchell the banker pioneered the sale of stocks and bonds to middle-class investors (p.6). Pecora's investigation revealed National City Bank sold worthless bonds and manipulated stock prices to benefit insiders. [Does this remind you of the High-Tech stock scams of the 1990s and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations of the 2000s?]

`Part I' discusses the financial and political background. [Perino may not understand how traders can drive down a stock (p.16). Richard Ney's "The Wall Street Gang" explains.] Chapter 2 is a biography of Ferdinand Pecora. Chapter 3 explains the workings of Senator Norbeck's committee. [Note the misjudgments of the `NY Times' in these chapters.] Norbeck chose Pecora as the investigator for the time remaining (Chapter 4). Investors were swindled by selling them over-priced stock (p.71). Newspapers were paid to print misleading advice. [Does this still go on?Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA cautionary tale that was forgotten and the recent recession shows...

Incredibly timely and very on point with respect to the recent recession. Big banks make money for themselves. They are constantly finding ways to cheat depositors and investors.

Published 2 months ago by Tuffyand Morris
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very good book! We need a Pecora today!

Published 2 months ago by Ryan
3.0 out of 5 starsToo Scattered for My Taste

I usually love books like this - stories about business scandals - but this one just didn't do it for me. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Robert B. Lamm
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat story about a great man

This is a great read which is, as others have stated, quite relevant to the economic situation today. Read more

Published 10 months ago by MomShops
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Read!

I adored this book. It brought to light the prejudices against Italians of that era and made me root for the underdog, Ferdinand Pecora. Read more

Published 12 months ago by B. Verhage
5.0 out of 5 starsFerdinand Pecora

Excellent book about an American hero.

Published 15 months ago by Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 starsVery good read

Very good read. These Congressional hearings, long forgotten, portended the recent bubble bust. Pecaro was the bulldog who lasered in on the Wall Street fat cats. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Stanley Weinstein
5.0 out of 5 starsGenerally a great whisper sync experience

Generally a great whisper sync experience. I really liked the details and excerpts from the actual hearings. Read more

Published 16 months ago by John Porsley
4.0 out of 5 starsIf you want a better idea of what went wrong in 1929

If you want a better idea of what went wrong in 1929, what needed to be done, who made it happen and how the Glass-steigall act was created then this is a good book to help fill... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Michael Czajka Jnr
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A must for anyone concerned about the integrity of financial institutions.

Published 18 months ago by Charles Stanger

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