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...Some of the historical episodes, such as the chaotic disintegration of the French army and the mass exodus from Paris are familiar from novels such as Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Roads to Freedom series and Irène...
Break golden rule only when logic demands it
...Some elements of the swindle, recorded by a whistleblower wearing a wiretap, read like a Quentin Tarantino movie....
...In a famous 1977 article for Fortune magazine, a certain investor from Omaha with a fondness for peanut brittle penned a piece entitled “ How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor”....
...One piece by Johnson, who is taking charge of the company’s investigation, was a particular favourite from The Sunday Times, titled “A beginners’ guide to tried and tested swindles”....
...“We hope justice will be served and that those responsible for this swindle will be detained,” said Diosdado Cabello, the ruling Socialist Party’s second-in-command, Reuters reported....
...“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy,” Joseph Pulitzer once said....
...“This was the biggest hit ever,” said Paul Law, executive director of the firm....
...Hedge funds, collateralised debt obligations – “some perfectly viable and honest, others pure swindles” – deregulation, rule changes, new international accountancy standards, have all helped to intensify...
...As Kindleberger put so well in his book, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: The implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles....
...In March, Channel 4 screened The Great Global Warming Swindle, which robustly contested the views of the scientific majority, claiming that those who opposed the consensus were under pressure to remain silent...
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