America's Economic Future – A Discussion By Ted Kavadas
Up until this point I have not commented upon the situation at MF Global. Two recent articles highlight the current state of what appears to be known and unknown concerning the situation, including the potential of customers to “get their money back.” These two articles are the January 30 Wall Street Journal article titled “Money …
Bloomberg BusinessWeek had a story on September 2 titled “Wayne McLeod: The Life and Death of a Mini-Madoff.” This Ponzi scheme was particularly brazen as it targeted federal law enforcement personnel. The story is an interesting one. I would slightly disagree with one statement in the article, “As primitive as they are, Ponzi schemes are …
The Wall Street Journal has recently had two more articles concerning alleged Ponzi schemes. The first is titled “Our Ponzi Nation: Florida Entrepreneur Hit With Charges.” The second is titled “Alleged Ponzi In Colorado Has Shades of Madoff Affair.” Also, there was an interesting story from April 17 titled “Report Says SEC Missed Many Shots …
I have been intermittently commenting upon the growing number of investment frauds being uncovered. Those posts can be found under the “investment frauds” tag. Here is yet another alleged Ponzi scheme as seen in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal article titled “SEC Charges Couple in Florida Ponzi Scheme.” As seen in the article, this alleged scheme …
Occasionally I have written about investment frauds. My last post on this topic was on November 27 and is found here: https://www.economicgreenfield.com/2009/11/27/investment-frauds/ Here is a story from December 28 titled “Ponzi collapses nearly quadrupled in ’09”: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-Ponzi-collapses-nearly-apf-898755198.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode While I find this article’s statistics to be of interest, I do not necessarily agree with some of its …
In June I wrote a post about investment frauds. That post can be found here: https://www.economicgreenfield.com/2009/06/29/more-madoffs/ Since that June post, there have been a number of investment frauds uncovered. Of course, none have rivaled the size of Madoff’s; however, they haven’t been small either. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of these frauds is that most …
Here is the latest update on the Madoff sentencing from CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/id/31610169 A few months ago, I wrote an article titled “Crime During Economic Stress,” that is listed under the “Individuals” section (about halfway down the page) here: https://www.economicgreenfield.com/prosperitybypencom-directory/ One of the questions that I have is whether there are more frauds in existence that haven’t yet …