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		<title>Rant: And the hits keep on coming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madoff fraud the latest to highlight SEC incompetence
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<p>Jaysuz! Ya couldn&#8217;t make it up could you? Just when you think that the finance watchdogs of the western world couldn&#8217;t fuck up any worse, along comes the story of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7784925.stm" title="BBC article (opens in new window)" target="_blank">Bernard Madoff and his 50 billion pyramid scheme</a>.</p>
<p>Not only did the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="Wikipedia Article:SEC (opens in new window)" target="_blank">SEC</a> fail to perform even a spot inspection of this geezer as a matter of routine, they appear to have entirely ignored / failed to act on information received from an <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/12/sec_a_madoff_victim_too.html" target="_blank" title="Swamp Politics: Article (opens in new window)">apparently reliable source</a>, advising them of the large-scale <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme" title="Wikipedia Article:Ponzi Fraud (opens in new window)" target="_blank">Ponzi fraud</a> being perpetuated by Madoff for years!</p>
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