Rich is the founder of SurvivalRing, now in it's 20th year, author of multimedia CDs and DVDs, loves the outdoors, his family, his geeky skill-set, and lives in rural Missouri, just a few miles from the Big Muddy. Always ready to help others, he shares what he learns on multiple blogs, social sites, and more. With a background in preparedness and survival skills, training with county, state, and national organizations, and skills in all areas of media and on air experience in live radio and television, Rich is always thinking about the "big picture", when it comes to helping individuals and families prepare for life's little surprises. Since 1997, he has provided guidance, authentic government survival history, and commentary on why we all need to get ready for that fateful day in the future, when we have to get our hands dirty and step in to save the day. He is an award winning videographer (2005 Telly Award), has received state and national scholarly recognition (2006 New Century Scholar and All USA Academic Team), and is a natural with computers, technology, gadgets, small furry mammals, and anything on wheels. Rich likes making friends, solving problems, and creating solutions to everyday issues. He doesn't mind mixing things up, when there is a teaching moment ready to happen. As a constitutional conservative, he's staying quite busy these days. The SurvivalRing Radio Show at www.survivalringradio.com will be coming back SOON!
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What and How it Happened.
An American tragedy playing out in public; how could Bernard Madoff fool so many, so completely? It turns out that there were skeptics who felt something wasn’t right with…
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Not quite a catastrophe, but not the Madoff book we need
Everyone wants to know how Bernard Madoff pulled off the largest scam in Wall Street history by bilking investors of billions upon billions of dollars.
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Entertaining Read But More Questions Than Answers
If you are as curious as I am as to how Bernard Madoff pulled off the largest Ponzi scheme of all time, you have to read Deborah and Gerald Strober’s Catastrophe: The Story of…
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FIRST OFF THE BLOCK
The foreword to this book is dated precisely 32 days later than the original news story of the discovery of the Madoff scandal.
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Lessons learned from a schemer?
We’ve read about this Ponzi Scheme many times, I’m sure, but each time upon re-reading this book I, for one, learn more about the devastation caused to folks who invested in the…
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not a sympathetic figure
Nice story of a man who scammed a lot of people out of everything. You think a persons’ conscience would kick in before getting so bad, but evidently not. A good read.
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Interesting Book
This is a pretty interesting read on the biggest and most reprehensible crook ever to plague Wall Street.
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A bit choppy, but good collection of info
What this book really is, is one very long news article compiling information about one of the biggest scams in the history of the American economy.
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Ugh – rushed and underreported
This book really reads like a supermarket checkout tract. That is to say, it is short on details, was rushed to market, and is very short (180 pages excluding appendices, with…
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Dissapointment
I was looking forward to receiving this book. What a complete disappointment! The first 60 pages are references to all kinds of people that are victims of Madoff.