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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire Blogger With workers all over the globe trudging through a catastrophic recession, it's almost a given th...
Bernie Madoff was a sexist, egomaniacal, short-tempered control freak -- yet everybody loved him. That is according to his secretary of more than 20 years, Eleanor Squillari.
Here's some good automotive news for a change: The Danica Patrick IndyCar racing juggernaut keeps rolling along. And just in time for the biggest auto race of the year.
Instead of putting those responsible for the financial crisis in jail, why did we give them huge sums of our hard-earned tax dollars. Bernard Madoff is nothing more than the scab on the wound.
The Senate is capable of making activity illegal that the general public already assumes is illegal.
Wherever there's money around, there will be crooks. Many of these crooks are well-dressed. Often they are at the top of whatever game they are bilking.
Charles Ponzi swindled the working poor. Bernie Madoff swindled the Uber Rich -- the ones in-the-know. Well, apparently not so in-the-know.
Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal?
He's a scapegoat, a distraction on the world's financial stage where the real sleight-of-hand-Ponzi-magic goes on unabated. Two trillion dollars -- give me a break.
Financial fraud typically takes a long time to detect and yet, paradoxically, the tell-tale signs are (almost) always in plain sight.
"The first piece of advice," said Kuby on his syndicated program, is that "prison is designed to be arbitrary...you have to live with the arbitrary system of the penal code. Period."
@Madonna (taking the kids to Kabbalah class; for the first time I'm thinking they're really not into it)
Early last week, while visiting my sister in New Jersey, I awoke to an e-mail from my girlfriend with the subject line "bad news."
Real Housewives of El Dorado, Texas in which five sister-wives bring up a bunch of teenage kids at Yearning for Zion Ranch.
When people lose money, it can be quite interesting. You can find out what you really love about life that keeps us here and what you came to this planet for is not necessarily your apartment.
Convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff had a surprising victim in right wing circles in Washington, DC: the Hudson Institute, a think-tank closely allied with the neoconservative cause.
