The author studied international relations and economics at UCLA where he was in the African Studies Program. After graduation, he was a securities broker for a number of years before founding a manufacturing business that marketed gold and precious stones.
He was for seven years a director for investment strategies for a private equity firm until retiring a number of years ago to focus upon writing and investing his personal funds.
He has published the history book, Violent Justice and numeerous articles in the areas of international relations, international economics and history. He has lived in eight countries and traveled through as many as forty others. After living in Japan for more than ten years, he has relocated recently to Canada to weather the coming economic crisis.
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