Life's Wealth Secrets

I admit it has been quite some time since my last post. Life has gotten in the way. But I will try and again post more regularly going forward.

There are so many financial scandals. In our series of the biggest financial scandals in recent history, we cross continents, borders, ethnicities, and different industries. Some were financial scandals involving average Joes being scammed out of their hard-earned cash, others involved corporate fraud, insider trading, some of the biggest names on Wall Street and Ponzi schemes.

Who was the Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort?

A dentist who went rogue. A meat salesperson who went bust. A stockbroker who became a boiler room boss. Belfort's career in a nutshell.

His entrepreneurial career started at a very young age when he made $ 20,000 from selling ice cream on the beaches of Queens. Instead of pursuing his ice cream career further, Belfort opted to study dentistry. A honorable, profitable profession that he abandoned after merely one day upon hearing that being a dentist is not the key to quick and massive wealth.

There are so many financial scandals. In our series of the biggest financial scandals in recent history, we cross continents, borders, ethnicities, and different industries. Some were financial scandals involving average Joes being scammed out of their hard-earned cash, others involved corporate fraud, insider trading, some of the biggest names on Wall Street and Ponzi schemes.

What to do during the coronavirus lockdown? How about reading some unbelievable stories about how individuals and corporations pulled off some of the biggest financial scandals? If you enjoy dabbling in the dark sides of finance, are doing research for a college or school paper, or are simply looking for a distraction from all the negative news, I put together a number of entertaining financial scandals that have rumbled the world over the last century.

Coronavirus, Covid-19, SARS-Cov-2, the virus that has caused a pandemic, measures that were previously unthinkable and that has sent world markets into free-fall. The panic that the coronavirus has brought in global markets is as vivid in daily life. Shopping is no longer the same. We wear face masks, gloves, keep a meter or more of distance from others. Life is no longer the way it was just a few weeks ago.