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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,...

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'...

Hellishly Hot Sauce Dedicated to Bernard Madoff

New York - Alex Gardega has concocted a fitting tribute to disgraced mogul Bernie Madoff:  a fiery habanero sauce that'll definitely burn.  The text on the bottle reads:  "You can take the money but...

What is a Ponzi scheme

This explains it well: http://www.dillonthompson.com/dtig/ponzi.html

Suckerpunch Madoffian Sales Pitch Revealed

Time magazine gives space to a generously confessional Robert Chew who ruminates about his time since 6 PM December 11 2008 when his wife Sarah learned on the phone that they were wiped out by Bernard 'Ponzi2' Madoff. Mr. Chew put it to the Denver Post: "financial murder"."We...

Madoff Scandal Hits Jewish Philanthropy

The collapse of Bernard Madoff's investment group is being called "the atomic bomb in the world of Jewish Philanthropy."  Since Madoff's arrest a number of Jewish charities have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a December 18 article in the Jewish...

Madoff Fallout Victims Include Pensions and Charities

The Wall Street Journal has published a comprehensive list of banks, companies, non-profit organizations and individuals that are facing losses in a scheme that's rocking the financial world." The fallout from Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme reverberated around the...

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