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Slate Money Criminals: Bernie Madoff

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The Unanswerable Question About Bernard Madoff

Bernard Madoff had a Ponzi scheme where he took people's money and pretended to invest it. His returns were what were they? 10% every year without fail but he wasn't investing the money at all. He basically invented electronic trading that we know it today. We owe him actually a great debt for democratizing the markets as a market maker.

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