By monopoly

April 26, 2011 8:20 PM | Link to this

Bernie’s bad luck he landed on Chance and drew the Go Directly To Jail card. If he would have landed on Community Chest he may have drawn the infamous Advance To The FED Discount Window or the notorious Your Assets Are Toxic Receive Relief card. POINT: The game continues and the players are injuring you more than little old Bernie could ever, Bernie is a piker compared to the real thieves.

By Mark from St Paul

April 26, 2011 5:17 PM | Link to this

Cox was a fool and Robert Rubin can be blamed for much of this mess, but the porn surfing SEC jerko’s were 100% Bush administration.

By Waterboard Madoff

April 26, 2011 3:00 PM | Link to this

Bernie is not the problem? Trust in our fellow man? That is precisely what his clients did and some were bilked out of their life savings…. The oligarchy of Washington and Wall St. have debased our currency by privatizing profits and socializing loses. As to putting too much faith in money, Woody Allen said it best: “Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons”.

By truth in advertising

April 26, 2011 1:23 PM | Link to this

Bernie is not the problem. Americans trust in God. That is the problem. If we were a little more thoughtful about our fellow man we would do all right. I find it interesting we trust the market to do all sorts of amazing things like feed the poor and provide medical care to those in need and yet we can’t seem to trust the market to police itself. People talk about how our currency is debased - oddly enough thanks to Madoff and his ilk - when to me it seems like we are putting too much faith in our money - America’s 21st century God. I think we have debased ourselves…

By Waterboard Madoff

April 26, 2011 12:32 PM | Link to this

There were Madoff warnings in the 1990s that the SEC,under the incompetent leadership of Chistopher Cox, chose to ignore. Recently, the SEC settled a wrongful termination lawsuit with a former SEC attorney who tried to bring insider trading charges against the head of a powereful hedge fund, and was fired. At the same time, several senior attorneys from the SEC Division of Enforcement were spending up to eight hours a day watching and downloading porm…. The same SEC that couldn’t prevent Madoff from running his Ponzi scheme is expected to reign in Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and the hedge funds…. God help our country.

By victor mickunas

April 26, 2011 11:40 AM | Link to this

Craig, while I did interview Ralph for his most recent book, “Euphemania,” I did not interview him for “The Post-Truth Era” book. So do you think that Ralph was being prescient??

By Craig

April 26, 2011 11:27 AM | Link to this

Vick, Didn’t Ralph Keyes “The Post-Truth Era” foreshadow all this back in 2004? And didn’t you interview him for his book on the book nook or am I mistaken?

By victor mickunas

April 26, 2011 11:15 AM | Link to this

Gee Whiz, Al, didn’t you invent the Internet?! And here we are talking to one another on the Internet. This is so exciting. I’m getting chills….

By Al Gore

April 26, 2011 11:07 AM | Link to this

Vick, looks like a good read. Madoff’s biggest mistake was not going into politics. If he just understood that government ponzi schemes are accepted and encouraged. If his defense attorney just had him say that his customer’s investments are in the form of IUO’s in a lock box in Virginia, he’d be a free man today.