What Were They Thinking?

Conventional wisdom helped drive supposedly sophisticated investors to bet on Madoff.

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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.

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