Stephen Pizzo

My Bio follows... but first let me ask a question that might be on your mind:

Why would you want to read about a financial scandal that happened in the 1980s? Well, because it just happened again, only on a much larger scale. And, the reason the US banking system nearly collapsed completely this time is because of the lesson not learned during the savings and loan crisis two decades earlier. You will be furious when you read Inside Job. And you should be.

Having said that, let me also assure those of you who might not feel you want to endure 360 pages of banking and regulatory blather, that Inside Job concentrates much more on the characters who took down half the nation's thrifts in a matter of five years. And I don't use the term "characters" lightly. If instead we had tried to write Inside Job as a work of fiction, no publisher would have touched it, considering the outrageous characters portrayed in this tale. Never has such a caste of crooks, murderers, mobsters and just plain screwballs, stolen so much money in such a short period of time.

As Barrons wrote, "Inside Job is hard to put down." It's a true-crime story that will leave have laughing sometimes and fuming in anger at the end.

Thanks for considering buying Inside Job. I welcome emails from readers. stephen(at)pizzo.com

Stephen Pizzo, 2012

CV Follows

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans

New York Times Best Seller

McGraw Hill, Hardcover 1989/ HarperBusiness PB 1991.

1990 Winner, 1990 Investigative Reporters & Editors Book of the Year Award.

Nominated for a Pulitzer

The Ethic Gap: Crisis of Ethics in the Professions

1991, Parker & Sons Publishers

Profiting from the Bank and S&L Crisis

HarperBusiness, January 1992

JOURNALISM AWARDS:

- 1989 Lincoln Steffans Award for Journalism

-1989 George Polk Award for Business Journalism

- 1990 Gerald Leob Award for Business Journalism

- 1990 Investigative Reporters & Editors Book of the Year Award

- 1990 National Headliner Award - Associated Press

- 1990 Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award

- 1990 Arizona Press Club Don Bolles Investigative Reporting Award

- 1990 Arizona Associated Press Sweepstakes Winner

1992 Project Censored Award - Sonoma State University

1999 Southam Award for Sailing Journalism

ON THE WEB:

Founding Sr. Editor, National Affairs,

Web Review Magazine

(Technology/Politics) 1994-1996

Broadvision

(Sr. Editor, Current affairs)

"The Angle"

1996

Founding member & Senior Editor

Quokka Sports Inc.

Digital Sports Coverage

Open Ocean Races

1996 - 2000

TomPaine.com

Political Commentary

O'Reilly Associates

The O'Reilly Network

Internet Audio Interviews/Technology

The Challenge Business (UK)

Senior Editor, EDS Atlantic Challenge

Open-Ocean Sailing Coverage

www.edsatlanticchallenge.com

2001

PRINT JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE:

Forbes & FYI Magazine

(Business/Technology)

Washington Post

(Banking/book reviews)

New York Times

(Editorial Page)

Los Angeles Times

(Stringer - General Reporting)

Arizona Republic

(Banking)

San Francisco Chronicle

(White Collar Crime, Political Analysis)

Public Citizen Magazine

(Banking)

Playboy Magazine

(Banking/Politics)

Penthouse Magazine

(Organized Crime)

National Mortgage News

(Banking)

Baseline/Ziff Davis

(Computer Technology)

Mother Jones Magazine

(White House/Congress)

Mortgage Technology Magazine

(Internet Techonlogies)

New York Times Group Columnist

(Emerging Web Technology)