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Neil F. Garfield, M.B.A., J.D., 61, is the winner of dozens of academic awards, a popular speaker, and author of technical treatises on law and economics. He has come out of retirement with a bang and financial institutions should take note. He knows them from the inside out, who the deciders are, and how they arrived at a catastrophic scheme to defraud, people, agencies, institutions, and governments all over the world. 

The former consumer advocate, trial attorney, and economist says that he “can’t watch this meltdown without lending a helping hand to those in distress.” Appearing on TV, Radio, multiple blogs, and live appearances, Garfield offers bold and sound advice for dealing with the “largest economic fraud in human history.”

His Garfield’s Handbooks provide valuable insights to borrowers, community bankers, credit unions, government agencies, law enforcement, and others on how to help save the country from financial disaster and how to profit from the coming recession, dollar devaluations, and revelations about the dangers of centralized banking.  Besides providing specific strategies for people who are vulnerable and law enforcement trying to get a grip on the economic meltdown, he is an urgent and ardent advocate of local community banking and credit unions taking back their market share by asserting their power and requiring an even playing field for competition with each other and with larger financial institutions. 

Local and state agencies would do well to follow his suggestions, some of them bold enough to raise eye-brows world-wide, and save their local economies even while the rest of the nation’s economy falls to pieces around them. Using an extensive knowledge of economic, world and national history, Garfield picks the strategies that have worked in the past and expands upon them so they can be institutionalized.  

He is a former investment banker, radio talk show host, trial lawyer, and board member of several financial institutions.

Garfield has appeared as guest commentator on radio, TV, newspapers and magazines. He is currently Chairman emeritus of a consortium of Financial Services Companies, a licensed Attorney, Economist, Financial Analyst, Accountant, and former director of investment banking at a small boutique on Wall Street. His experience on Wall Street makes him the ultimate “insider.” 

He created the rights to intellectual property including business method and technology in the processing of ATM Transactions, the processing of debit and credit payments, and automatic electronic settlement. 

Neil has come out of retirement with one purpose in mind — to do all he can to counter the effects of the Mortgage Meltdown and save the people and the country from the disaster created by the creation of “free money” using derivative securities that not even experts understood, and targeting the least sophisticated members of society.

Living in Arizona with his wife and dog, Garfield comes from a long line of Garfield creators and innovators: His great-grandfather created the first fully automated pharmaceutical plant in the United States 100 years ago, which now stands as an exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. His cousin, Brian Garfield is a prolific and acclaimed author of fiction and movies (Death Wish, Hopscotch, Kolchak’s Gold) and nonfiction (Currently the “War in the Aleutian Islands” is a popular coffee table book).  His family funded research in the 1950’s that resulted in the worldwide production of lanolin from cholesterol. The Garfield Foundation is a major contributor to wildlife refuge and environmental causes.