James Patrick Rooney is the author of “For the Love of Money: Four Dizzying Decades Riding the Merrill Lynch Bull”, a sharp-eyed, often irreverent memoir of a career spent inside the most transformational era in American financial services history. Drawing on 34 years at Merrill Lynch in the Palm Beach market, where he retired in 2017 as First Vice President and Senior Wealth Management Advisor, Rooney chronicles the boom-and-bust cycles, the political ruling class and corporate executive blunders, and the global fallout he witnessed from the inside. Along the way, he found personal and spiritual support helping him not only survive but eventually thrive in a famously demanding industry. A veteran wealth advisor turned author, Rooney brings four decades of insider perspective and pairs it with the candor and humor of someone with nothing left to prove.