Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals
The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.
The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.
Douglas Faneuil | Posted 05.25.2011
Praising a suicide as honorable may come with an extremely high price: namely, more suicides. News organizations have a duty to temper such judgments -- not to censor them, but to put them in context.
Bloomberg | Alan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet's sense of honor led the descendent of French army officers and an ennobled shipping family to commit suicide after he...
AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet saw his fortune and his loved ones' money disappear along with his clients' when he lost $1.4 billi...
AFP, Bloomberg, Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
(SCROLL FOR A PHOTO OF VILLEHUCHET) UPDATES THROUGHOUT French money manager Thierry de la Villehuchet died of a likely suicide in his New York office...
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011