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Millions of people–looking to cheat on their partners–signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 2000s, seeking a private space to share their public desires. The promise of discretion was shattered in the summer of 2015, when anonymous hackers stole the company’s cache of user information and published it worldwide. The result? One of the most shocking data breaches of the internet age. Overnight, millions of unfaithful spouses had their real names, addresses and sexual preferences published online in a searchable database that anyone could browse.

Boaz Manor was a finance wunderkind. He started a hedge-fund company in Canada and later burst onto Wall Street with a product that could transform the crypto market. By all accounts, he was incredibly hard-working. Possibly brilliant. And...a shameless con man who ended up wanted in multiple countries. Chasing Boaz Manor explores Boaz’s schemes through the perspective of those he left in his wake.

Il crac Parmalat è la storia di revisori contabili, banchieri, assicuratori, imprenditori, finanzieri, deputati, senatori e ministri. Perfino di un presidente del consiglio. È la storia del crony capitalism di casa nostra, del capitalismo clientelare all'italiana. È la storia di strani legami ed equivoche relazioni che collegano il molto piccolo al molto grande: le filiali delle banche popolari sul territorio ai desk di colossi come Morgan Stanley, Ubs e Deutsche Bank, gli interessi della provincia profonda ai vertici dei partiti di governo, giù a Roma.