Entries tagged "Bernie Madoff"

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Transactions: Nov. 28, 2011

What is an intermediary? He is the man (or woman) working the middle. He is neither this nor that; he's the go-between, the arranger, the fixer, the old goat carrying love notes between doomed lovers. He whispers in ears; he... Continue reading

Posted on November 28, 2011 2:10 PM

Transactions: Nov. 28, 2011

Access to information proverbially levels the playing field and drives out the fee-taking middleman, and yet we miss the buggers when they're gone. Experience, training, nuance and perspective depart with them, leaving Google. Continue reading

Posted on November 28, 2011 12:00 PM

Joe Nocera reads 'Since Yesterday'

Joe Nocera's article is the second piece in a week or so in which a Times columnist has tried to ransack the Great Depression for current purposes. In both cases, there's an attempt to create a false equivalence between two economic dislocations. Continue reading

Posted on October 17, 2011 2:26 PM

Look the other way

Once again, regulatory authorities in Switzerland and the U.K. failed to uncover wrongdoing until it was too late. Continue reading

Posted on September 30, 2011 1:00 PM

Madoff trustee can sue the Mets, but in limited way

A federal judge has limited the ability of the court-appointed trustee for bankrupt Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC to recover funds from the owner of the New York Mets, a victory for the Major League Baseball team considering that... Continue reading

Posted on September 28, 2011 5:23 PM

SEC watchdog seeks criminal probe of Madoff decisions

The SEC is enduring another round of bloodletting over the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme Continue reading

Posted on September 21, 2011 12:41 PM

What Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford had in common

Background checks must go deeper than a cursory search for criminal records, says former FBI special agent Kenneth Springer. Continue reading

Posted on May 9, 2011 5:00 AM

Transactions: May 9, 2011

Thanks to fine work by the audit committee of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., we have penetrated to the nub of the David Sokol contretemps with Warren Buffett. Sokol, said the committee (actually, to be candid, law firm Munger Tolles, which did... Continue reading

Posted on May 6, 2011 2:28 PM

Transactions: May 9, 2011

Warren Buffett and the blow to his reputation by the Sokol affair. Continue reading

Posted on May 6, 2011 12:45 PM

Social welfare as a Ponzi scheme

A Ponzi scheme is one man -- or one organization -- deliberately defrauding the public. In a bubble, we are the market. And in a widely accepted welfare scheme like Social Security, political and economic choices are made to tie the generations together. Continue reading

Posted on April 5, 2011 12:53 PM

On sending Wall Street to jail

Errors may be made, but markets (and banks) tend to overheat and crash with startling regularity. And while there may be fraud, it probably would not have made a difference in the scope of the disaster. Crashes tend not to be conspiracies. Continue reading

Posted on March 21, 2011 8:24 AM

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