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Dr. Howard Schilit: The Difference Between Fraud And Manipulation

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Jacob Wolinsky
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ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Dr. Howard Schilit, the Sherlock Holmes of Accounting and the author of Financial Shenanigans. In this part, Dr. Schilit discusses his background, his book, and the difference between fraud and manipulation

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All right. Oh, yeah. So just telling you about your background and how you got started in this profession.

So it's a long story. I began as an accounting professor at American University in Washington DC. In 1993, wrote the first edition of financial shenanigans how...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid