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What we can learn from Madoff

Bernard Madoff was able to pull off what is allegedly the largest investor fraud in history because people trusted him.

Bernard Madoff was able to pull off what is allegedly the largest investor fraud in history because people trusted him. But why did people believe his lies when there were so many reasons not to?

It was the skeptics who spotted Mr. Madoff's alleged deceptions. Most notable among them was a derivati

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