Topic: Bernard Madoff

Madoff Scam May Be Worse Than Enron: Two Things You Can Do

Some experts say the Madoff meltdown will be worse than Enron.Are you as sick and tired of this as I am? Enron fell apart in 2001. Michael Milken was indicted in 1989--that's almost 20 years ago! And now we find out that Bernard ...READ»

The Five Signs of Financial Fraud

How to Smell a Rat: the Five Signs of Financial Fraud by Ken Fisher is probably the best investment you will make this year.READ»

Why Bernard Madoff is NOT a symbol of our times

Lots of attention will be paid this week to the sentencing of Bernard Madoff, and rightfully so. But if we pay too much attention, we risk missing the bigger or more important story of how the U.S. wound up in the longest recession since the 1930s. READ»

Apple App Store: Upskirts Yes, Satire No

It's fatuous to attempt to understand the App Store approval process, but in the past, there have been a few rules: weirdly obscene or prurient-minded things aren't so well-received (think "baby shaker" app), and apparently, neither ...READ»

Madoff and the red flags we ignored

18 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com Wall Street was rocked when news broke that high-profile Bernard Madoff, a trusted former Nasdaq chairman and a man admired for his philanthropy, had bilked investors out ...READ»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Are You Investing or Speculating?

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comThat's the question we wish we could have posed to scores of individuals before they unwittingly put their trust in Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff.  On June 29, when the judge handed down a ...READ»

The Power Palette of the Economic Collapse

Applying design forensics to the boom years: Will drab black and gray be remembered as minimum-security rather than minimalism?READ»

Presenting the 50 Most Innovative Companies

You won't find Bernie Madoff in these pages. Or talk of another Great Depression. You won't find unemployment statistics or the word "bailout." We may discuss those topics in another issue, but this month, we pass. It's not that we ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50

Want a $100,000 Painting of Bernie Madoff? Neither Does Anyone Else

Tallies are in for last weekend’s Armory Show, the big international art fair in New York, and not surpringly, Gallerist David Zwirner had to pack up his big Bernie Madoff painting and haul it back home. The sepia-toned watercolor, ...READ»

The Sunny Side of Madoff

What this charlatan can teach corporate marketing and sales professionals.READ»

Suburbia R.I.P.

Does the downturn spell the beginning of the end for suburbia? Some experts say yesterday's cul-de-sac is tomorrow's ghost town.READ»

Another Wall Street Fiasco!

14 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com An epic fraud has just been uncovered – this time it doesn’t involve those new exotic and complex securitized debt/credit default swap packages.  No, this one is a ...READ»

Even Madoff Had Great References

With the daily revelations about executives acting in their own self-interests while their companies, shareholders and the marketplace suffers, you have to wonder who hired all these Nero-clones while Rome burns to the ground? The irony is that they all had stellar references. This article identifies how even great references can lead to hiring mistakes.READ»

The "Greatest Single Phone Call in the History" That We've Never Heard

Yesterday at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner regaled attendees with a tale of the "greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business." Not to be tripped up by a grammatical ...READ»

Susan Boyle - 5 Public Speaking Lessons

Susan Boyle’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent has the world abuzz and has generated name i.d. and popularity for Ms. Boyle that any politician, public figure or CEO dreams about (aside from the current President, in a good ...READ»

Duplicity Director Tony Gilroy on How Spying Can Trump Innovation

Tony Gilroy, whose new film, Duplicity, stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, discusses why he makes movies about business's dark side and how spying can trump innovation.READ»

• Idea Factory

Board Governance 2009: Rising from the Ashes

“The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.” “The End” by Michael Lewis is a smart analysis ...READ»

Shawn Baldwin from CMG Interviews Dr. Christopher Geczy of the Wharton Wealth Management Initiative

Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses private wealth management and the economy with Dr. Christopher Geczy for the Critical Capital Management SeriesREAD»

Time, Inc's Former Editor on the Future of the Magazine

Over the last three decades Jim Gaines has served as editor in chief of Time, Life and People magazines, as well as the corporate editor of Time, Inc. Today, August 11, is his sixty-second birthday--but unlike many of the print ...READ»

You're Invited

I began the New Year with an invitation for you to join me in making 2009 the most amazing year of our lives. Many of you wrote down your personal commitments and shared them with The Company You Keep readers throughout the world. ...READ»

UNCERTAINTY

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago discusses market factors in 2009READ»

Chen Wenling Encapsulates Wall St. in a Sculpture

The man against the wall is Bernie Madoff. READ»