“They controlled all the levers of power...”
— Diana B. Henriques,
on the Open Book podcast
“She’s terrific, she was essential to the whole project...”
— Robert De Niro
“With America’s regulatory ‘Deep State’ under fierce attack, Diana Henriques’s gripping narrative of unbridled capitalism in the Jazz Age and its consequences is beyond timely—it’s urgent.”
—James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and The Redstone Family Legacy
Diana B. Henriques, an award-winning financial journalist, is the author of The Wizard of Lies, a New York Times bestseller about the Bernie Madoff scandal, and three other books on business history. As a writer for The New York Times, she has largely specialized in investigative reporting on white-collar crime, market regulation and corporate governance.
Contact [email protected] or call (201) 892-3022.
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I was recently invited to discuss Bernie Madoff’s life and legacy on the Boxes and Lines podcast.
I appeared on Money Life with Chuck Jaffe (moneylifeshow.com) to discuss the new book and more.
“Ms. Henriques’ extensive investigative reporting on white-collar crime, market regulation and corporate governance gives her unique insights and perspective,”
More info here.
“The simple truth was that financial institutions could no longer be allowed to fail — the links among them were [in the words of Longstreth] ‘simply too extensive to prevent one failure from triggering another.’”
Read the full article here.
“What worries me about this is it completely ignores the way our financial system actually works. No bank is an island in today’s world, regardless of its size. Midsize banks sell their loans upstream. They form syndicates that take on bigger risks. They provide critical lines of credit to big local industries that are big employers, so they’re connected to the larger economy in dozens of ways we may not even see until the dominoes start to fall.”
Read the full article here.
One of the most challenging things I’ve done lately was to prepare, memorize, and deliver a TEDx talk at Yale earlier this month. Called “Trust, Lies and Bernie Madoff,” it explores the paradox of trust. Trust is both a nourishing, enriching part of life and an essential element of a healthy economy and a healthy society. BUT it is also “the only weapon a con man needs to destroy his victims’ lives.” How should we navigate the dual nature of trust when we handle our money? See my suggestions in the video above.
HBO’s Wizard of Lies is back in the news with nominations for both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards!
Golden Globes full nominations here.