Ruthless

Ruthless is a candid exploration of the criminal subculture of Wall Street, and one of the first books to speak for the victims of the financial meltdown. Praise for RUTHLESS "In a period when investors have been betrayed by both the financial industry and the regulators charged to protect them, Phil Trupp has distinguished himself. I commend Phil for his dogged persistence in exposing the massive fraud encompassing the auction-rate securities market. Phil Trupp as David slays the financial industry's Goliath in his fabulous work Ruthless. As a long standing Wall Street veteran who treasures truth, transparency, and integrity, I salute Phil Trupp and Ruthless for providing an abundance of these badly needed virtues." —LARRY DOYLE, Fox News financial commentator and creator of the Sense on Cents Web site "Given recent scandals, Ruthless by Phil Trupp is a must-read. Trupp explores the criminal subculture of Wall Street in a candid manner. He is a straight shooter and tells it like it is." —BRUCE FREEMAN, The Small Business Professor® and coauthor of Birthing the Elephant Referred to as a "financial roach motel" (investors get in, but they can't get out), there had never been anything like it in Wall Street's checkered history—$336 billion in auction-rate securities were suddenly worthless. Hundreds of thousands of investors—from corporate giants like 3M and Texas Instruments, to reporters with the Wall Street Journal, to small investors—lost everything. Phil Trupp was one of those investors. He was determined to fight back, and that's what he did. Ruthless shows you how he took on Wall Street and took back what was his, and how you might do the same. Ruthless is a candid exploration of the criminal subculture of Wall Street, and one of the first books to speak for the…