Larry McDonald

Larry McDonald is the NY Times Best Selling Author of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense – the Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.” Published by Random House 7/21/09, it hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week. Now one of the bestselling business books in the world, translated into 12 different languages, Larry is President and Founder of McDonald Advisory Group is an asset mgmt firm, specializing in Washington, DC policy research and trading, based in New York City.

Larry was Co-Founder of Convertbond.com, a website coined by Forbes Magazine as “Best of the Web” from 2000-2003, and was noted as the world wide web’s premier source for convertible securities information, valuation and news.

In October 1999, before the dot-com crash, the site was successfully sold to Morgan Stanley and remains the property of the firm.

Larry also spent over five years as a successful retail financial adviser, helping individual investors build wealth, starting with Merrill Lynch in 1990 and working with firms like CitiGroup’s Smith Barney Division.