Me and Bernie Madoff on video, abridged

I’ve already written about my Bernie Madoff panel-moderating experience, but now that other people are posting an abridged YouTube video of the event (with contributions from Madoff and his employee Josh Stampfli, plus a few of my questions), I figure I’d better do the same: A friend suggests that I “might get some branding from [...]

When did Madoff go from legit to Ponzi?

One of the big questions that one hopes investigators will dig up an answer for over the next few weeks was when Bernie Madoff’s investment strategy made the switch from legitimate to Ponzi scheme. It seems highly improbable that he meant for it to be a scam from the beginning. There just wasn’t anything in [...]