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The Inauguration Cannot Come Quickly Enough

Alec Baldwin | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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In a sense, we made Madoff. This society and its desire for results and more results. The disease of more. The Bush legacy: No regulation. A free-for-all.

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Madoff Scandal Rippling Everywhere

AP | ADAM GELLER | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — In the nonprofit legal center Steven Schwartz runs from a converted furniture store in Northampton, Mass., the e-mail was very good n...

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Algergone

Bob Franken | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Corruption, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Madoff, Economic Crisis, Enron, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Politics News

If only Horatio Alger had been around today instead of the 19th century, so he could write new stories about how hard work is all it takes to make your fortune. He would have so much material.

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SEC Watched Porn, Ran Private Businesses Instead Of Catching Madoff, Report

ProPublica | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a drubbing these days for its abject failure―despite detailed tips―to catch Bernie Madoff in what...

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Hedge Funds as Victims?

James Berman | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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Hedge fund are required to carefully investigate their potential investments. When a "fund-of-funds" farms its money out to another manager, a few simple questions are due diligence 101.

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Anatomy of a Con Artist: How Madoff Played the Trust Equation

Charles H. Green | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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The Trust Equation describes the components of trustworthiness. Measuring Bernie Madoff by the trust equation shows just what an effective job he did at mimicking genuine trust.

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How About A Madoff Victim Bailout?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

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Looking over the list of poor saps who were hoovered into the Madoff money vacuum, it occurred to me that we might have found an excellent beneficiary of some the remaining bailout bonanza.

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Bernie Madoff Books Coming From Two Major Publishers

AP | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — The Bernard Madoff books are in the works. Less than one week after the former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market was arrested for ...

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The Wealthy Share Experiences with the Unemployed

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Layoffs, Financial Crisis, Chrysler, Obama Fundraising, Marc Dreier, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Personal Finance, Business News

Thousands of extremely wealthy individuals have now learned that their wealth has been taken from them by a man who led them to believe for years.. that their fortunes were safe if entrusted to him.

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Madoff Unmasked: The Cry of the Snookered Investor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

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Who does this to people? Who takes families' life savings, everything they built up over all the years and years, everything they need for later, and just takes like a thief until there's nothing?

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Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn

Dave Belden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

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If cleaned up, Ponzi-free, derivative-free capitalism comes out of Madoff scandal, then good may yet come of his madness, and of our system.

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The Ripple Effects of the Madoff Scandal -- and What We Can do to Help

Maddy deLone | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

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In a time when many wonder what the public can do to help address the national economic uncertainty, the Bernard Madoff scandal brings at least part of the answer: Donate today.

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Madoff the Unoriginal!

John R. Price | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business

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Bernard Madoff is a charming, sophisticated thief who used a common, garden-variety scheme to separate intelligent investors from their money. And the investors should have known better.

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Madoff Wikipedia Entry Lights Up Like A Christmas Tree

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business

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Since the announcement of his arrest, alleged fraudster Bernie Madoff's Wikipedia page has been a flurry of activity, with users frenetically adding a...

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BERNIE MADOFF PONZI SCHEME: Victim List Grows

AP/WSJ/NY Times | Posted 02.04.2009 | Business

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UPDATE 2/4/09: The full 162-page list of Madoff clients and customers compiled by restructuring firm AlixPartners has been released. See the list her...

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