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What Were They Thinking?
Conventional wisdom helped drive supposedly sophisticated investors to bet on Madoff.

What indeed. Bernard Madoff could have schooled Charles Ponzi on just how big and for how long a scheme built on deceit could go. The original huckster had no shortage of chutzpah, but Madoff, by all accounts, had it coming out of his ears. To get at the answer to
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