"Insiders" By Marvin McIntyre

"Insiders"

By Marvin McIntyre

Addressing Serious Issues on Wall Street

"A chilling tale about the power of greed and the dangers of power, you'll keep one eye glued to the book and the other on your portfolio!" - Bill Miller

Marvin McIntyre, known in the financial world as "The Wizard" because of his great success in making money for his clients, has written his first book, "Insiders," inspired by the events that rocked the world's financial markets in 2008-2009.

McIntyre describes his new book as a thriller written to help us understand what went on behind the scenes on Wall Street during this critical time in our history. With more than 40 years of experience in the financial industry and currently serving as the managing director of a major NYSE brokerage firm, McIntyre is a top player who truly understands Wall Street.

"People are scared, frustrated, and looking for solutions in an acrimonious political climate," McIntyre says. "Fiction allows for free expression of ideas and has the potential to be well received as long as the entertainment value is the primary focus."

The following is a review from the October 3rd issue of Barron's: "Insiders," by financial advisor Marvin McIntyre (he is ranked in the top 100 by Barron's) spins an exciting yarn while addressing a serious issue: The increased complexity of financial instruments calls for improved and increased oversight, but that very complexity places the industry beyond the understanding of the regulators who would rein it in.

The novel's main character is financial advisor Mac McGregor, who is called on by a regulator friend to help solve a mystery. A former colleague of McGregor's named Jeremy Lyons has disappeared, but there is compelling evidence that he is operating a secret hedge fund. The fund is rumored to deliver spectacular returns, but because hedge funds are largely unregulated, almost nothing is known of Lyons and his business. Who are his clients? What does his fund invest in? How large is his operation? And most importantly, does he pose a threat to the stability of the post-2008 financial markets?

But where is Jeremy Lyons? In the years since Mac worked with him, Lyons has apparently moved off the grid, leaving few clues of his whereabouts. In a parallel story line that gives the story most of its sizzle, we learn all about Lyons' operation. A pathological character in the mold of the antihero protagonists of "First Deadly Sin" and "American Psycho," Lyons has constructed a super-exclusive nightclub that he uses to attract businessmen and politicians from whom he can extract the inside information that produces his outsize returns.

Lyons' righthand thug, Max, injects the story with a healthy dose of sadism, and some of Lyons' other underlings are featured in scenes that could have been lifted from Stieg Larsson's best-selling thrillers.

The pursuit of Lyons is action-packed and entertaining, but the strength of "Insiders" lies in its specifics about the financial industry. McIntyre's knowledge of finance - the nuts and bolts of investment management and financial advisory - allow him to weave a story that is fantastical and realistic at the same time. [Complete Barron's Review...]

Marvin McIntyre is a graduate of The Citadel, a Vietnam veteran, and recognized in Barron's "Top 100 Financial Advisors in the U.S." publication.  In 2010 and 2011, Barron’s ranked Mr. McIntyre as the top financial advisor in the Washington, D.C. area. 100% of the proceeds from this book will be donated to charity.

THE FRUITS OF GRAFT: Great Depressions Then and Now By Wayne Jett

THE FRUITS OF GRAFT: Great Depressions Then and Now

The Truth about the Great Depression

...and How it Relates to Today's Economic Crisis

By Wayne Jett



Americans are badly misled about who and what caused the Great Depression, about fairness of U.S. financial markets and about actual intentions of economic policy. Now the truth is told in a stunning new book by classical economist, Wayne Jett - The Fruits of Graft: Great Depressions Then and Now. With rising unemployment and our own President urging Congress to pass a more than dubious Jobs Bill, it's more important than ever that Americans understand what the historic events of the Great Depression teach us about here and now.

With much of the productive class now failing to prosper, and with currency devaluation and federal spending each proceeding at a worrying pace, every American is searching for insight into the causes. How did the world's only super-power of 1990 morph into the economic basket case America is today - only 20 short years later?

The Fruits of Graft, in addition to much more:

• Details specifically why America suffered the Great Depression.
• Reveals how FDR secretly served his elitist class and betrayed impoverished voters who elected him president by intentionally deepening and extending the Great Depression.
• Confronts and dismantles John Maynard Keynes' "general theory" of economics, and calls it what it is: an intellectual cover story for predatory mercantilism (now mistakenly called "crony capitalism").
• Describes how federal law allows the Securities & Exchange Commission "discretion" to shield powerful financiers from prosecution for fraud.
• Shows the Federal Reserve System is a private banking cartel which sets anti-competitive bank interest rates and manipulates financial markets to produce enormous insider gains.
• Explains how the Federal Reserve purposely causes inflation through currency devaluation and then intentionally destroys middle class production and jobs in pretending to "fight inflation."
• Details how crude oil was pushed to $147 per barrel in "dark" trading of derivatives, while supply and demand justified no more than $45 per barrel.
• Tells how the 2006 nomination of Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson Jr. as Secretary of Treasury (and "economic czar") should have been stopped in its tracks by a simple vetting process.
• Discloses the U.S. dominant elite's agenda pursued ruthlessly since 1900 to destroy the middle class, pull down the Constitution and take "full power" in a "new world order."

How does the Great Depression compare to the American dilemma today? Wayne Jett says President Obama is the new FDR. Obama pretends to champion the poor and middle class, but has installed the dominant elite's operatives in every economic post of his administration (as did Treasury secretary Henry Paulson in the previous administration). Soup lines are managed out of sight of camera lenses by use of food stamps or electronic cards. Obama's health care law achieves the elite's century-old goal of taking control of middle class access to health care as a lever to control and reverse population growth. Cap-and-trade environmental regulations seek control of middle class access to energy, so essential to prosperity.

As in the '20s and '30s, the U.S. financial markets are notable for aggressive manipulation and fraudulent trading practices. Middle class capital invested in financial markets is being looted by the dominant elite with SEC neglect and outright assistance. Living standards are not holding, and future generations face sharply declining prospects.

Despite all obstacles, the American productive class survived and prospered to a degree tenaciously grasping hard-won political rights protected by the Constitution. Can this be accomplished again, or will constitutional government be pulled down, leaving the people in conflict, poverty and war? The Fruits of Graft addresses this historic challenge. This book must be read by thoughtful Americans in order to weigh its evidence and analysis. Its implications for our national and individual well-being are enormous.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Jett, managing principal and chief economist of Classical Capital LLC, a registered investment advisor engaged in economic analysis, distinguished himself as legal counsel in dozens of cases in federal and California appellate courts, including the U. S. Supreme Court. In 2005, he began speaking to chartered financial analysts across the U.S. and in Canada on topics of monetary policy reform and U.S. financial markets. He has led seminars in classical economics for CFA Society of Los Angeles and for Security Analysts of San Francisco, and speaks and writes on constitutional and economic topics.

The Secrets of the FBI By Ronald Kessler

The FBI is involved in almost every aspect of American life. From Watergate to Waco, from congressional scandals to the takedown of Osama bin Laden from Vince Foster's death to the swap of Russian spies, The Secrets of the FBI presents headline-making disclosures about the most important figures and events of our time. In an exclusive interview, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III tells what his greatest fear is.

THE SECRETS OF THE FBI

By Ronald Kessler

Based on his unparalleled access to hundreds of current and former FBI agents, award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Ronald Kessler delivers a treasure trove of revelations in THE SECRETS OF THE FBI.

Kessler discloses J. Edgar Hoover's sexual orientation, what triggered Vince Foster's suicide, what preceded Marilyn Monroe's death, and the real story of how the FBI caught spy Robert Hanssen in its midst.

Kessler goes behind the scenes at the FBI Laboratory and training center. For the first time, he reveals how agents break into homes, offices, and embassies to plant bugging devices without getting caught and shot as burglars. The narrative culminates with the inside story of the FBI's involvement in the raid on bin Laden's compound.

THE SECRETS OF THE FBI discloses the FBI's most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations. The book reveals that:

• Robert F. Kennedy secretly borrowed the personal car of the FBI agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office to visit Marilyn Monroe just before she took her own life.
• FBI agents determined that an encounter with Hillary Clinton triggered Vince Foster's suicide a week later. 
• Russia tried to include convicted spies Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames in the swap of Russian spies arrested by the FBI and tried to contact Ames in prison.
• After he was killed, the FBI could not match Osama bin Laden's fingerprints.
• Contrary to the portrayal in the movie Breach, it was FBI agent Mike Rochford who uncovered fellow agent Robert Hanssen as a spy.
• FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had a spousal relationship with his deputy, Clyde Tolson.
• What the FBI thinks about President Obama, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.; and
• When planting bugs in the homes and offices of Mafia figures, spies, and terrorists, FBI agents tranquilize dogs, stage fake traffic accidents, and instruct police to stop occupants who try to return.

When it comes to developing access to top players, uncovering secrets, and writing a vivid tale, Ronald Kessler is without peer. As he did in his New York Times bestseller In the President's Secret Service, Kessler penetrated a wall of secrecy to write a book that is powerful and compelling.

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The Next Wave By Catherine Herridge

Bin Laden is dead. But are we really any safer?

The first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, Anwar al-Awlaki slipped away from the FBI and is now enemy #1 - details on the worst intelligence failure since 9/11.

THE NEXT WAVE

On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits

By Catherine Herridge

 "An absolutely compelling case that we haven't seen the end of terrorism in this country. In a gripping narrative, Herridge tells how it was only by sheer luck that we sidestepped al Qaeda's 'second wave' - and we'll need all the more of it not to be hit by the next." --Bob Baer, New York Times best-selling author

"Even before Osama Bin Laden's death, al Qaeda had shown itself to be an organization as adaptable as it was deadly... This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand where this war is going and what we need to do to win it." --General Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and the NSA

Award-winning Fox News national correspondent Catherine Herridge's groundbreaking book, THE NEXT WAVE: ON THE HUNT FOR AL QAEDA'S AMERICAN RECRUITS, is the first of its kind since Bin Laden's death to show what the next chapter of terrorism could look like. Herridge's landmark investigation exposes the American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, who is the public face of al Qaeda in the West. Herridge, who has covered intelligence, the Justice Department, and Homeland Security for a decade, reveals the insidious threat posed by al-Awlaki's new generation of American recruits - al Qaeda 2.0.

In THE NEXT WAVE, shocking details emerge about what could be the worst intelligence failure since 9/11. The FBI allowed the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to slip away after 9/11. Now he leads al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate in Yemen that was behind at least two major plots targeting the U.S. New evidence shows that al-Awlaki's movements and his connections to a major FBI investigation were hidden from the 9/11 Commission and from Congress.

THE NEXT WAVE reveals:

• Awlaki's post-9/11 lunch at the Pentagon including the guest list and proposed menu that included pork.  It was like a thief returning to the scene of the crime. Al-Awlaki had contact with three of the five hijackers on Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon.
• The sexual frenzy and double life of al Qaeda 2.0.  As Navy Seals find porn in Bin Laden's hideout, senior counter terrorism officials reveal to Herridge how common it is to find operatives with pornography on their hard drives.  Terrorists demand as much as $30,000 for al Qaeda's messages that are delivered through porn sites.   Binging on alcohol and blowing money on strippers are standard practice before their suicide missions.
• Al Qaeda's so-called holy man, al-Awlaki, was picked up three times for soliciting prostitutes and a fourth time for loitering around a school. Yet, Government officials refuse to use the cleric's criminal past against him.
• The new threat and why the next twelve months are critical - Were plots already in the pipeline before Bin Laden's death? Where are the sleeper cells? Will al-Awlaki, and his al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, or Somalia and North Africa, step up to fill the void?
• New details from the U.S. intelligence community who already warn of retaliatory strikes by al-Awlaki and his cell. From his hideout in Yemen, al-Awlaki is the leader of al Qaeda 2.0, the new generation of recruits. Who are the new digital jihadists? How are they radicalized?
• Was this American cleric recruited by the FBI as an intelligence asset?
• New information proving it's all easy living for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
• Details on how Pentagon media officers tried to intimidate the author for her groundbreaking reporting in Guantanamo Bay.
• Exclusive and rare access to the new generation fighting the war on terror - the new generation of counter terrorism officers at the CIA whose "accounts" include the tribal areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa.
• The New Frontier: al Qaeda's strongholds - Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa are the hubs for terror training. 
• Former CIA leadership and other senior intelligence officials predict future attacks could look like the commando-style assaults in Mumbai, India, in 2008. A cyber attack will most likely be combined with a conventional attack in what amounts to a "one-two punch." The nuclear attack is predicted to be a device the size of a refrigerator, smuggled up a major waterway to cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
• A 9/11 story that was never told. Newly declassified documents and interviews suggest that al-Awlaki was an overlooked key player in the 9/11 plot, itself.

THE NEXT WAVE discusses this shocking likelihood: As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Bin Laden's death may provide justification for radicalized individuals in the United States to rapidly mobilize attacks here. 

Their leader is an American, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was firmly in the grasp of U.S. authorities until the FBI let him slip away. The story behind the next wave of American recruits and al-Awlaki has never been told before.  Why has so much of the American cleric's story been hidden from Congress, 9/11 investigators and the public? Was there a cover-up? Herridge's book is already being described as "a landmark in investigative journalism."

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