IT was a “Remember where you were when ... ?” moment: on Dec. 11, 2008, I was standing under a palm tree in Santa Monica when my cellphone rang. It was my brother-in-law, a Wall Street big shot who rarely called me. “Are you sitting down?” he asked. I wasn’t. And I didn’t. But I should have, because his next sentence made my knees wobble. “They arrested Bernie Madoff.” He needn’t have said another word; I knew right away my whole investment was toast. Two weeks earlier I had doubled my...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/12/13/the_ponzi_scheme_that_changed_my_life_247238.html
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