E. Henry Schoenberger's Page

About Me/Us:

Graduate of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) 1964; majored in English and Economics. My bio is at: www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-schoenberger

I am the author of the new book - "How We Got Swindled by Wall Street Godfathers, Greed & Financial Darwinism ~ The 30-Year War Against the American Dream -- with a foreword from David Satterfield, the former business editor of the Miami Herald and 2 times Pulitzer Prize-winner. Swindled is the only book about how the return of Social Darwinism metastasized into Financial Darwinism which is the real root cause of our economic disaster and the vast chasm of income inequality. David Satterfield said in his foreword that Financial Darwinism means: "survival of the richest." And like the robber baron of the era of Social Darwinism - there is no concern for the common good - greed has been deregulated, and ethics have been devalued.

The following is from the back cover of How We Got Swindled:

Swindled is a political, socio-economic, financial, and philosophical treatise on the state of our dysfunctional society. It is a brutally candid expose of political self-interest and economic self-interest. And how our Democracy, founded on the primary principle “of the people, by the people and for the people” (Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) has become a political system of the lobbyists, by the ultra rich and for the ultra rich and their special interests.

This is not the book of a professor to impress scholarly colleagues, or the book of a businessman impressed by his own ego. But the book of a poet-philosopher thinker, who provided testimony to Senate Finance for TRA 86, and has specialized in succession planning and investment advice for over four decades. As a general agent in the insurance business and a NASD Member Firm broker-dealer, Henry Schoenberger was among the first financial planners in the U.S. From 45 years of tax related specialization he knows what so many do not know about tax law as well as how Congress has used our tax code for generations to conduct what it terms – Social Engineering. This book is also derived from Schoenberger’s experience writing his first book, Invest for Success, which the Chairman of the Finance Dept. of Miami University called “a PhD dissertation published as a trade book” when he spoke to the Finance Honor students in 1990 at the request of an officer of the university. Swindled, in the final analysis, stems from the eclectic renaissance perspective of a political junkie as well as a life-long student of economics and finance, and human rights activist who has lived on the inside of what he has written about in this book.

“With keen intellect and searing wit, Henry Schoenberger’s How We Got Swindled exposes the myriad of financial hijinks and colossal leadership failures that have turned the first decade of the new century into an economic disaster. Schoenberger not only identifies the causes, rationales and human failings that led to this mess; he provides some ready answers for how we must go about fixing it. This should be must-reading for every policy maker in Washington and every student of economics and Finance.”
--David Satterfield, former Business Editor of the Miami Herald, 2 times Pulitzer Prize-winner

“Having been on the inside of one of the largest sub-prime mortgage lenders that failed, I can attest to the fact the Mr. Schoenberger has got it right. His insights and historical perspectives are on the money. We need to be focusing on how we effectively regulate the markets so that this type of crisis does not come back to bite us again.”
--Marc Loewenthal, Esq., Former SVP of Enterprise Risk Management, New Century Financial Corp.

To know what Congress and Wall Street do not want you to know, and what the media does not fully understand: www.howwegotswindled.com

Relationship Status:

Married

Movies

Bridesmaids, A Fish Called Wanda, What About Mary, Boys From Rwanda, Cry the Beloved Country, Geo Clooney, Dr. Strange Love, The Loved Ones, Sound of Music, Bergman - The Virgin Spring, Annie Hall and most of Woody Allen, Fellini

Television

Mahr, Daily, Colbert, Up W/Chris Hayes, Rachael, O'Donnell, Mathews, Beshir and the Rev Al and Ed.

Music

Classical - Clev Orch - the 3 Bs, soul, R&B, jazz, techno, Latin, new (old) age, gospel - not country or rap.

Books

Joyce, Hesse, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Camus, Becket, Garp, One Flew Over, T. Mann, Woulk, Gatsby, The Last Hurrah, Miss Lonelyhearts, e e cummings, Halberstam, Galbraith, Heilbronner, Albert Ellis, tons of stuff -- have thousands of books.

Heroes

Nelson Mandela; Thurgood Marshall; Doug Moore, MD; Paul Vail,econ prof at MU; my wife and kids; the truth.

Website:

http://howwegotswindled.com