16-01-2009, 02:51 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Smoke, mirrors and big whopping lies:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/...ny_trades/
As investigators try to untangle the scheme that Bernard L. Madoff hid from investors and regulators for a decade or more, one basic fact is emerging: He may not have been making any trades at all.
A federal agency that regulates brokerage firms says there is no record of Madoff's investment funds placing trades through his brokerage operation. That leaves only two options - either he was placing trades only through other firms, which would be highly unusual, or he was not placing any trades.
"There was no evidence of the Madoff broker-dealer executing trades for the [Madoff] investment adviser," said Herb Perone, spokesman for the regulatory group, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. A broker-dealer is any firm that buys and sells securities.
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In the light of this, I now wonder if Madoff could've been running a laundry operation? The big name banks who placed money with him are usually very strict on Due Diligence to avoid this exact sort of thing happening. Something here doesn't appear to add up - albeit that crookedness in the banking community is now business as usual.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14