Leann J.

“People were always trying to get rich quick, and there was always someone around willing to promise fantastic wealth while picking their pocket. “You start to realize, anyone can be vulnerable.”
― Ben McKenzie, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: The Basis for the Documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

“Elected lawmakers create the law, professionals argue about it, judges interpret it, and public servants assist in the process of implementing it, but often, ultimately, a randomly selected group of citizens decides it. Like all human endeavors, it is as flawed, and prone to unexpected twists of fate, as we are. It might also be the best we can do.”
― Ben McKenzie, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: The Basis for the Documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

“Constantly preaching ideas of community, democratic empowerment, and individual liberty, crypto’s leaders and influencers had instead created an anarchic set of markets that invariably funneled money from information-poor retail investors to well-connected insiders and whales.”
― Ben McKenzie, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud: The Basis for the Documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

“This little book took me eight years to earn.
PASSPORT
United States of America
Was it worth the last eight years of my mother's life?
And what sort of daughter does that
make me?”
― Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish