Finding a Safe Trading Environment By C H Yeo The world's trading environment is really not safe to anybody. "Trade at your own risks" is NOT only the norm to the rich and the poor, all are to live or swear by the phrase. Even Warren Buffett could NOT save his shares from plummeting, right? A safer trading environment ...

<div><p>Bernard Madoff allegedly ran the mother of all pyramid schemes. Now meet the kids. Call them mini-Madoffs -- men less ambitious, perhaps, but copying the same alleged fraud and, like Madoff himself, being hauled before judges.</p><p>The latest is Long Island financier Nicholas Cosmo, arrested Monday and told by ...

The mystery of Bernard Madoff will be storied a hundred years from now. As history's biggest financial criminal, he took a cheap ripoff that you can use at home—the Ponzi scheme—and turned it into a global empire worth some $50 billion. One ingredient was financial intelligence. Madoff had buckets of it. Early in his career, he was ...

<div id="subtitle">Madoff, like others accused of Ponzi schemes, exuded charm and respectability</div><div><p>They're smart and charming. They have an aura of success about them and exude respectability. Above all, they instill confidence.</p><p>Which is, after all, why they are called ...