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...British indie music, then you find out he's fifty-eight, with six kids and three percent of Google. What do these people do to themselves?...When I tell people my age in L.A., they can't believe it. But you look so much older, they try hard...
...reason for the sudden deluge of these crimes, according to Stephen Obie, acting director of enforcement for the CFTC, is that hard economic times are stripping away fraudsters' camouflage. And, of course, Bernard Madoff's stunner, a $50 billion Ponzi that wiped away billions of dollars from thousands of duped investors around the world, has brought global attention to Ponzi capers, encouraging both whistle-blowers and just plain nervous investors to come forward, he said. (See pictures of Madoff...
...Ponzi scheme from his yacht but was grounded when the tide turned as federal authorities exposed this egregious fraud," said Obie in a prepared statement. When asked why the Ponzi surge is so great now, Obie said, "What you're seeing is the collapse of Ponzi funds in hard economic times - but I'm afraid as times get tougher, we're going to see new fraud develop, especially foreign-currency fraud...
There is a theory, and I think it holds some credence, that every 30 years or so America is in a regenerative mood. It shows a willingness to take a hard look at some of its accepted truths, whether it's the role of big business at the beginning of the 20th century or isolationism after World War I. You saw it with FDR in the 30s, and with Kennedy and with Reagan. I'm intrigued by the possibility that we may be embarking on another such era. It will be fascinating to see how this President puts his stamp...
...oceanographic factors in which you can be on either side of an ocean front where the temperature is slightly different on your side than the others," says Ferguson. "Where the gulf stream comes across the Atlantic is a prime point of this. Sometimes these barriers can be quite hard - no sound penetrates at all. And if your business is hiding, then you would hide in that vicinity. There is an added risk that, given the environmental factors, maybe you don't hear another submarine in time to do something about...