Can the Goldman ponzi scheme happen again?
Greg Gordon: There is nothing that can prohibit or stop the Wall St. firms from making secret bets
China on Course Catching Japanese Disease
Hugh Askew wrote me a message with a request to write something sensible to the story published in the Financial Time from yesterday. “China is heading for a Japan-style bubble”“If China continues to...
Regulatory Capture: O-stock CEO, Ron Paul, Gold-Sachs Corruption
Regulatory capture. That is the term the Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne uses to describe the reality that Wall Street now controls the regulatory bodies set up over the last one hundred years to regulate Wall...
Topps yanks Madoff cards before they hit shelves
This years Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball cards have already hit store shelves, minus the highly anticipated rookie card of fraudster Bernie Madoff. Yeah, that's right!! The modern day Charlies Ponzi,...
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A Bigger Ponzi Scheme Than Madoff's
A Bigger Ponzi Scheme Than Madoff'sYesterday, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for stealing approximately $65 billion dollars from investors through a Ponzi scheme. The story in itself is uninteresting as anyone that commits fraud should be prosecuted. ...
‘100 Most Creative People’ List Omits Key Players
Reading Fast Company magazine’s recently-released “100 Most Creative People in Business” list, I noticed some glaring omissions. Most notable among them are Bernie Madoff and Barack Obama, two...
Is Sympathy for Bernie Madoff's Millionaire Victims Misplaced?
Originally posted on MonkeyPundit.comBy now, most of us have heard the sad, sob stories of millionaires (and multimillionaires) who have lost there life savings to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme; life savings in the millions, and in some cases tens of millions. But I can't...
Madoff Accountant David Friehling Arrested
David Friehling, Bernard Madoff's long-term accountant has turned himself in and been arrested and charged with securities fraud. Friehling is the first alleged accomplice to be named in connection with the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. " Friehling, 49, is not...
Nicholas Cosmo charged in New York Ponzi scheme
A new alleged investor fraud case has emerged in the US with the arrest of Nicholas Cosmo, the owner of a New York investment firm.Cosmo, founder of Agape World Inc, has been charged with defrauding 1,500 investors of more than $370 million, telling them it would be used to...
Madoff-ed Alexandra Penney is now blogging and it is Really Awful
For those of you who don't know the story, one of the people who was allegedly defrauded by Madoff's giant 50 billion dollar ponzi scheme, is now writing a blog about it. It's called the 'bag lady papers'... 1152 views | 41 recommendations | 7 comments
