How to build a product
Ok, you have been working your tail off for a month now compiling all this data for Bernie Madoff’s sentencing on June 16. Come June 18 – after all the media has reported the sentencing to death, what are you going to do for your readers? Well, you have all the data you need to [...]
What is a Ponzi Scheme?
What I briefly described in the last post was a Ponzi Scheme. In this post do a little research on the Ponzi Scheme, and you can even embed a You Tube video that Jimmy Kimmel did.
You can also write some text briefly covering the history of the Ponzi Scheme – as in its origins (named [...]
The beginning of the end for Bernie
This post will highlight the reports that Bernie wasn’t even making any trades since around 1995. Yep, one of the initial investigation reports said Bernie’s firm didn’t have a record of any transactions in the last 13 years or so. That puts them into 1995. Remember that you are now talking about the asset management [...]
Bernie Madoff is the Big Man on Campus
Now you are going to get into some confusing results. Some say that by 2000, Bernie’s firm had become the largest market maker on the NASDAQ. You should be able to find out the amount of traffic on the NASDAQ in 2000 (about the time he was the largest market maker). But one of the [...]
You haven’t forgotten about the Swine Flu have you?
You are still washing your hands and covering you mouth when you sneeze right? The swine flu information is waning a little, but I know you are still persevering in your research and pre-writing posts like crazy so you will be able to post information about the Swine Flu and have enough information to keep [...]
Bernie Pays to Play
In the time when Bernie Madoff was electrifying the stock market, he also started paying some of the big brokerages to run their clients’ trades through him. This could be considered a kickback, or bribe, etc. That is exactly what the market makers were calling it and these types of allegations became a Congressional investigation [...]
Bernie Electrifies Wall Street
You will find a lot of information about how Bernie went to the Cincinnati Stock Exchange and invested in new technology to create a faster cheaper trading platform. Having success there, he incorporated more and more technology into what he was doing and this of course did not sit well with the Sneaker Net traders. [...]
The Swine Flu Takes Over
If you have been living under a rock for the last 2 weeks, or camping, you might not have heard about this grave danger. The dreaded Swine Flu (H1N1 virus as the pork industry would like you to call it) has arrived in the media inbox in full force.
This media pandemic will last for another [...]
Bernie starts playing with the big dogs
Of course as a business grows it can’t continue to make the same return in the kiddy pool. It has to expand its reach and eventually will end up with other big players. Bernie Madoff’s company did just that. After building the company from the ground up, he was at one point handling a 20th [...]
What types of Investments did Madoff make early on?
Like most new companies Madoff had to start small and work his way up to the bigger games. Also, since he started the company in 1960, the level of technology and computers is not even close to what it is today. Most everything is done via Sneaker Net (people walking over to each other to [...]
