Ben McKenzie is an actor, a writer, and a leading
investigative voice in the cryptocurrency skepticism movement. Best
known for his starring roles in The O.C. and Gotham, McKenzie holds
a degree in economics from the University of Virginia. He is the
director and star of the documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for
Money (distributed by The Forge), which serves as the cinematic
companion to this book. McKenzie has testified before the U.S.
Senate Banking Committee on the collapse of FTX and continues to
advocate for financial regulation and consumer protection in the
digital asset space.
Jacob Silverman is an award-winning journalist specializing
in the intersection of technology, finance, and power. His work
appears regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and
The Guardian.
Together, Silverman and McKenzie authored the New York Times
bestseller Easy Money.
“If you're looking for a smart, savvy road map through the mayhem
of the cryptocurrency madness, Easy Money is the guidebook for you.
Ben McKenzie has given us a wry and knowing saga of his personal
quest to expose the crypto charlatans, and his sleuthing uncovers a
world of frauds, true believers, and opportunists that you won't
soon forget.”
*Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling
author of Alexander Hamilton*
“Ben McKenzie takes us on an amazing journey, guiding us through
the astounding story of how a bizarre cast of swindlers and
scammers persuaded millions of people to take leave of their senses
and part with trillions of dollars, only to put them into the
surreal and illusory world of so called ‘crypto assets’ and watch
them vanish into thin air. When it is all over, the last couple of
years will prove to have been one of the strangest episodes in the
history of money.”
*Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of
Finance*
“Ben McKenzie's Easy Money is a perfectly timed page-turner that
gets to the heart of the fundamental scam that was (and is) the
mania around cryptocurrency. It's a devastatingly well-told story
of greed, con men, and endless gullibility. McKenzie goes down the
rabbit hole, only to become a full-throated skeptic who then takes
us along on his journey of enlightenment and discovery, proving
once again that if something seems too good to be true, it probably
is.”
*William D. Cohan, New York Times bestselling author of Power
Failure and House of Cards*
“Superb . . . the terrible story of our economic times.”
*Julian Zelizer, coeditor of Myth America and professor at
Princeton University*
“Easy Money is a deceptively ambitious project—at once a riveting
account of the financial crime of the century, and a thoughtful
meditation on the nature of democracy and what we owe each
other.”
*Zachary Carter, author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy,
and the Life of John Maynard Keynes*
“Easy Money is a smart, fast-paced, and timely exposé of corporate
greed, fraud, and incompetence masquerading as genius.
Simultaneously illuminating and infuriating, authors McKenzie and
Silverman’s page-turning book goes on a global journey to explain
how crypto is the latest Ponzi scheme orchestrated to seduce and
defraud the masses while benefitting the very few.”
*Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From*
“The perfect guide to the recent bitcoin hysteria…. gripping.”
*Financial Times*
One of the golden rules of finance is never invest in something you
don’t understand. This book shows what happens when you ignore
it.
*Times of London*
“Easy Money is the delightful story of how actor Ben McKenzie and
journalist Jacob Silverman realized long before most of the rest of
us that cryptocurrency was a scam, and set out to take it and all
of its promoters down. One part travelogue and one part anatomy of
a fraud, it’s a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what
the hell happened—and how human nature works when there’s money to
be made.”
*Bethany McLean, New York Times-bestselling author of The Smartest
Guys in the Room and The Big Fail*
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