How can One Guy steal 65 billion? NOBODY had ANY idea! That much money simply CANT be TRACED! The big wig wall streeters, AND the federal government were PLACED In those positions by our overlords
@@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet He was someone high profile and thus most likely people had no reasonable cause to launch and investigation. Also, they need more concrete proof to start an investigation because if they started an investigation for every single claim, they would be hemorrhaging money. It is not economical nor efficient to start an investigation for every single case. If they are sure that there may be something going on, they would dedicate the people and the money. Dedicating both of those with reasonable doubt is not a way to go for any entity.
Sometimes ppl are investigated when the FBI feel they have enough evidence. Doesn’t have to be major or factual but if they feel as if it will lead to what they’re looking for, they can investigate prior to having a lot of hard proof.
@@GabiGris your wrong these are house of card one fell then your bank that had Invested your fund and saving as investment j believing it was a safe one just got wipe out and you just lost everything this what happened to millions during 2008 these people play whit the money that belong to you and when they lost it and start to go bankrupt the central bank give then bailout
Peoples anger doesn’t surprise me when they invested their money with Madoff and he lost it all. It would be like having your life savings taken away from you.
So true and the same can be said about Epstein. Now that he is "dead" everyone actually believes the kiddie porn/sex trade problem is solved and its not.
One of the plastic surgeons I used to work with had less than a year to retire when all this went down & he lost all of that money. He couldn't retire & he had to keep working well into old age, even when his hands were shaky... He was a brilliant surgeon but you have to stop after a certain point & it's just absolutely shameful that after a long & successful career he had no choice but to continue working...
That is also fault of the US system with no to very low social security in Europe he would be retired. That’s you see elderly working in normal jobs in US people in their 70s that’s not normal in à first world country
@@AnnaCN78456 We have social security but the great majority have much more invested than that. The highest amount you can get $3,345 in social security. Most people also get either a pension or 401K from the company they work for. There are many other investment opportunities. That gentleman was a high income person who used one of those special opportunities by investing with Bernie Madoff, unfortunately. It surprises me how people from other countries make assumptions about Americans that are so wrong. We really aren’t all in line at the food pantries or living on the street in a tent.
That bootstrap quote applies to the carpenter who started a small business, and by 50 he owns his house, can take vacations, send his kids to college, and live well. When you amass millions like Bernie, you've definitely broken a few laws.
@@mario10zeus But the thing is, this quote make no sense : you can't physically pull yourself by your bootstrap. Which make the quote incredibly funny when most of all self made men and women are actualy made from parents poney and made their money by turning unpayed labor into profits.
I love these origin stories, 'he started with 5000 from a lifeguard job, and 50k from his father in law, that's 450k in today money'. So the dude had a rich family with money to spare 🙄
@@OOOOO0KKKKKKKK that really only matters insofar as it helps us draw a relative picture of the amount of wealth being talked about. Unless its significantly deviant from the real inflated value, the exact number is arbitrary because it's a hypothetical statement.
@@Stoney-Jacksman they both died, one of cancer and one killed himself, they surely knew, i think, and that is what you think as well, but we don't have any kind of evidence, and if you think that making connections based on assumption is proof, then i don't know what to say..... just.... don't open your mind too much, your truths are not everyones
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What he did was so horrible, but I still feel bad for his family, especially his sons. You can tell they felt real remorse, and honestly the end part about him not even having someone to talk to and his sons being dead hit pretty hard. His fate truly was worse than death, I don't think I'd want to live with my sons dead and my wife not speaking to me.
Screw all 4 of them. His son’s didn’t turn him in due to a moral obligation. They did it, after consulting lawyers, to avoid getting caught up in dad’s fraud case. Madoff and his wife even tried to take the easy way out and are now living in a fragment of the hell they forced countless victims into, some still haven’t recovered and even committed suicide. Feel bad for those people and THEIR families, not the people who lived decadent billionaire lifestyles for DECADES, lying and scamming the ENTIRE time. Screw Madoff, screw his family, everyone involved and screw the regulators who declared victory and went home after his conviction rather than pursue his co-conspirators.
Yeah my mom went to school with the one who killed himself and said he was a genuine person and super friendly. When she found out about the whole thing she was disappointed in him.
He stole from everyone. And even if he only stole from rich, its not like he was a modern Robin Hood. He is a man of greed so he deserves every year in prison.
@@MultiNudelauflauf I think the OC's point is that if he had stolen mainly from poor or middle class people, nothing would've been done about it and he'd still be free.
@@hazzasazza444 yeah...i kinda get it now. Then again i dont think this guy, or most billionaires, steal from the poor. Rather people have just inflated slights agaisnt minorities to the point giving bad financial advice is conflated to stealing
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 Soul don't exist but your essence, humanity and sense of community does, if you don't follow it god won't punish you people will.
@ Simple: Chaos Theory (that doesn't just deal with chaos but how patterns emerge from randomness all by itself with no outside intervention, sometimes even with the simplest equation to describe it. eg Mandelbrot sets). Life doesn't need a creator when ultimately it created itself, so it isn't all that special and certainly not magical even if it is somewhat unique (reset to the same initial conditions and you won't get the exact same course of evolution). In short there's nothing different between a live guy and a dead guy, just a loss of patterns and organization. Not much different between a wind blowing dunes in sand and then shifting and erasing them.
I agree. Many people knew what he was doing. Ruth knew, but she liked the luxury too much to make him stop. Sad thing is, he was a millionaire without the scam. Greed.
More like he had lied so much that he lost control of the narrative decades ago. He literally had to keep lying to stay alive, the sad part is he was already successful before he started the scam. Greed got him.
I guess greed isn't good. Remember, Smith Barney said, "we make our money the old fashioned way, we earn it." Simple rule to live by. It shocked me how many people were willing to give Bernie millions of dollars with a guarantee of high returns consistently. No market works that way. A few financial experts called out Bernie and said he had to be running a Ponzi scheme.
Because, they can make money of it, before bubble cracks. If you invest lets say 1M and you get lets say 1.2M back, after 5 invest cycles you are on your own, even if it happens to crack. Everything above that is profit, so as far as ponzi keeps going, you will still be profitable. And when it cracks, you lose only that 1M. Its no lose scenario. You can even double your investment after that, but your risk is still only that 1M. For smarter ones. Stupid ones will keep filling everything back into scheme and lose everything. But if you play it smart, you can make legally lots of money on this scam. Only loser, besides idiots, is ponzi cheme runner, but you can always say "i didnt know anything". Nobody can take your money away, because you did nothing illegal. Thats why everyone pretended they had no suscpicion. Not at all......
I don't believe people like him, the One Coin lady, or the Theranos creep are so charismatic that no one questions them, especially fellow business people. Game knows game.
To be fair the video just says summer job, doesnt specify how many summers he did the job. He could have worked for four or more summers saving up. Still does seem like a high wage for the job, but he could have been working at a country clubs pool or something similarly higher end.
same! well I was only 8 years old for that, but I think about how blurry the covid 19 years feel, or the whole SBF crypto bust only 1-2 years back and me not even knowing he existed lol, i was really in my own world lol. i think it is felt most by the people who are hit hardest. life is a trip
Man, it broke my heart when I heard that one of his sons committed suicide after all this. Imagine getting so much hate for your fathers actions that you are driven to suicide
The son killed himself on the 2nd anniversary of his arrest to dig the knife in. Having said that, i still can't believe they didn't know. They ran the business with him, how could they not?
Madoff problem was he did not steal enough money, had he stole over 100 Billion he would have been labeled "TO BIG TO FAIL" and would have been protected from prosecution
Honestly idk if I can say this would be true. We see other countries fail all the time. Even if the pot is big because there's more money to be made when there is recovery.
This is a sad story. A lot of people committed suicide after losing everything they had. I believe his son's handed him over to the Fed's. Also i believe one of the son's committed suicide very very sad. And the wife saying we had terrible phone calls and threatening email. What did she expect after what this fool did for money.
Even officials at the US Federal Reserve thought that Madoff was a brilliant financier. He fooled everyone -- except Harry Markopolos, who determined that Madoff's success was impossible.
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Maybe, but you have to be careful about who you point a finger at. I've always felt his kids were innocent and paid a price they should never have had to pay for his horrific greed.
He was the mastermind of it all. He made every executive decision, the guys at the top always take the hardest fallout, regardless of other people's actions.
In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of his views, supplying supporting documents, but each time the SEC ignored him or gave his evidence only a cursory investigation. SEC need investigation.
@@Scorch428 "100%" for sure buds. They probably have over a billion combines overseas. The man created a future for the upcoming 10 generations only to spend the rest of his life in "house arrest", while none of his accomplices ever got charged and are coming up with new schemes every day. So the real question is, is he the one stupid, or are you the one that is truly stupid?
imagine how pissed those office workers were when they found out the could of gotten a 200mill bonus divided among them, but his son turned him in. LMFAOOO
Memelord McMeme Which is why the sons turned him in, had they gone through with that they WOULD be accomplices, there chance of not being held as accomplices to the whole scam would decrease significantly.
QUEEN FAMOUS because there’s a big difference between what you tell your kids and what you tell your wife. I find it hard to believe she didn’t know what was going on.
Kinda strange, I really didn't want Bernie and his wife to die and was relieved when they didn't. Almost dropped a tear when hearing what happened to his sons. Cold Fusion is an artist.
that you call karma dude, you do bad things nature kicks back. why you think all drug lords end deadth or in jail Doing bad will not stand how rich you are. Nature is always king
@@536767676533766 Nature isn't king, nor is "Nature" the one putting drug lords into federal prison. You can thank the FBI for that, they're the ones doing this. Also, not all drug lords or criminals get caught.
I'm glad Bernie and his wife didn't die, but for a different reason. That was the easy way out - he needed to face justice and be punished for his crimes.
@@536767676533766 drug lord that get know go tell this to me zabamda family they are doing just fine and he'd the real head of the sinaola cartel. Next thing you know he get kill while writing this
Yeah, I can’t believe she let him down like this! We all know she is still chilling there with the 10k bottle.. because, show me youre panama papers.. 😂
The wife has nothing to do with it. She wasn't the one who robbed people of all they have and destroy all she holds dear. Madoff deserves all this hatred, not the wife.
I think the fact that Madoff started with $55000 but 90% of that was from his dad, showed how even with a scam, he probably couldn't have gotten nearly as far as he did without generational wealth. For honest investors as well, that's a fact of life that contributes arguably more to success than just their intellect and drive.
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 He profits while he's at the top of the scheme in the early stages, when the flow of cash is positive to his side. But, when too many people want their money back and less people get involved in the scheme the flow of cash is ''negative'' to the "Owner" of the scheme. Well, you need to see the big picture: he promises endless returns because he promisses that the money that goes to the scheme is invested somehow but this isn't true so he doesn't have money to pay back, and when there is too much people involved the amount of money that he needs to pay is like, 100 times more than what he does have. He only can profit of this if he give up like, 2 to 3 years after the begining of the scheme but he is well known on the market and stuff so he was a double idiot by doing this cause he wouldnt disapear.
Well, that's one really crazy story. I just read the Wikipedia page and it's really unbelievable how much damage this guy has caused. It just doesn't end.
EXACTLY! He was a scapegoat for the bigger fish! The next crash will reveal the puppet masters behind the curtain and the entire central banking system will be exposed and hopefully shit canned!
A big part of that money didn't just disappeared. It has been funneled to Israel... the biggest mafia state in the world ! And that's why Madoff has not been "suicided" in his cell.
@@ed1658 and you would feel "well" sitting in jail waiting to die? He doesn't even get the Epstein treatment but will die a slow and boring death behind bars which he deserves. Oh by the way.... Hillary and Obama is coming to join him soon - but they probably will get shipped to GITMO
@@ed1658 everything will change! The Deep state is being exposed and their firewalls and protections are stripped down one by one! The TRUTH will eventually come out that Barry Soetoro (aka Obama ) married to Micheal (aka Michelle) have fooled and committed Treasonous acts against the entire world and the USA. These guys and many more are criminals and will by lynched and hang from lamp poles when the truth is coming out!
@@ed1658 well it sounds like you are somewhat half woken up.... you have yet to figure out that Barry Soetoro is married to a man! Born in Kenya Africa and not even a US citizen! Pushed up and forward by the Deep State. Yes - "Michelle" is a transgender but will we ever let the world know that they have fooled and conned the entire world and did it from the Whitehouse with our taxmoney?? Probably not and the ones working close to them who know are silenced or threatened. Bring on the FISA reports and let the hammer drop and all the last 24 years of corrupt traitors either executed for Treason or locked up for live in GITMO! Time to do some more deep digging in the deep state before you blabber about any more lies fed to you. Start here! Know and study your enemies very carefully! theglobalelite.org/globalists/ and their evil plans www.globalistagenda.org/
You guys missed two GIANT points. First off, you don't even mention the efforts of Frank Casey, who provided Markopolous with the details needed to go after Madoff, and did so over several years, on his own tab. Look up the documentary "Chasing Madoff" (among other films) & you'll find him. Second, the main reason why Bernie turned himself in wasn't because of the complaints from his victims; it was because at the point of the 2008 crash, he had essentially run out of "legitimate" investors, and the bulk of the money coming in was coming from organized crime, most especially the Russian mafia. Bernie knew that if he stayed on the outside, he was a dead man. Thus, he went to prison to stay alive, and it worked beautifully, from his perspective.
sadly most didn't exit, they just "let it ride" too long. the vast majority only got 30% of their money back (if any at all, biggest banks probably get priority).
There was a process to make them pay it back. Can't remember what it's called, but those who lost got a bit back, and those who gained were made to pay back the profits. The ones who invested via hedge funds lost the most bc it was so muddled and the record keeping was so opaque. There's a good documentary by the son of one of the victims. Can't remember what it's called though, sorry.
ColdFusion has given me so much knowledge about the world and he keeps on doing it. I appreciate Dagogo dedication to the way he finds out the truth. True teacher for me
US government, the banking system and the concept of money might look a little fraudulent because of the continuous inflation caused by printing money but how does it make it a ponzi scheme,in a ponzi scheme a person invests in a company and in return sees that his investments have had growth while in reality the growth is fueled by perpetual flow of new investors.But that isn't the case with usd is it,the value of usd isn't artificially growing instead the exact opposite happens because of inflation....Think before you write.
The perpetual flow of new investors are new citizens. Americans' social security numbers are traded on the stock market (stock, like cattle). Every "cow" is milked for about half of his earnings, and there is no return. Infrastructure crumbles, education is a joke... A ponzi scheme is better. At least then a person has a choice to invest his money instead of watching his tax dollars go to investigate the investigators of the last investigation into the corrupt government. Pay your money to the government so the government can protect you from the government... worse than the mob.
@@retrocausality6159 Stay poor and live on welfare, then there is an actual return since welfare checks and food stamps are not taxed. What I did was work for 10 years to up the disability check a bit and then applied for disability based on insanity. Up until 1998 you could call being an alcoholic hobo a disability (in effect free booze).
@@Leisosa If one's financial manager said he was $22 trillion in debt, he would quit investing, but tax payers have no choice. I have no receipts. Where did that money go? Safety, education, infrastructure? Nah, it went into lobbyists, big corporations, and politicians pockets. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control. With the least important consideration being the question of where to buy and sell.
I wonder what his incarceration looks like compared to the guy sent down for stealing 65 dollars to feed his family? I can’t help but think the latter has it tougher.
"On February 17, 2022, Madoff's sister, Sondra Weiner, and her husband, Marvin, were both found dead with gun wounds in their Boynton Beach, Florida home. The deaths of Sondra, 87, and Marvin, 90, were labeled by police as a potential murder-suicide" - Wikipedia (Holy crap)
@@mountainman6172 I was too busy watching Spongebob at 6 yrs old, plus there isn't a thing finance mentioned at school, so I'm out to study it on my own.
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65 billion? Impressive... but he could learn a thing or two with Ricardo Salgado, the portuguese banker who stole over 200 billion and walks free in the streets. Oh and he managed to make us pay for the whole thing and he even received bonus for good management. Now that's something worth of a movie. Damn, even a whole series about it
Question: What life guard on what planet could earn $5000 in 3 months in the 1960 economy? Whatever the ultimate scapegoat was doing then for money had nothing to do with being a life guard.
Can you make a video on the 1992 Harshad Mehta stock market scam? I find it a lot more intriguing because it involves multiple different financial crimes.
*Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time*
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You guys are incredible. Have been glancing through dozens of RUclips channels during the pandemic and the quality of your productions is just incredible. Content, structure, wording, voice, pace, editing, the selection of topics and even the music is just phenomenal. My big respect for what you are doing and believe it or not this is my first ever comment on a RUclips video. But I hat to write all this. Thank you for the passion.
My first thought when I saw how much money he stole and lost was "This is larger than Croatia's GDP" and then I saw you put the same comparison on the end of the video :D Thanks for another great one!
It was good to be reminded of this stupendous fraud and to learn of the tragic aftermath for his family. I didn't realise what happened to both of Madoff's sons - or that his wife wasn't speaking to him any more. I understand that at least four other people committed suicide because of this fraud.
@@maximillianafrancine1451 What nonsense is this? There. Is no such thing as 'natural punishment'. And by what twisted logic can the death of an innocent person be 'punishment' for someone else?
@@PatrickMcAsey You cannot cause death, illness, loss to others and expect to go scotch free. There is natural punishment and what happened to his sons is one form of it.
@@maximillianafrancine1451 You mean, of course, 'scot free'. Well, if you seriously believe in natural justice then how do you explain young children having bone cancer? What wrong have they done? How do you explain the numerous vile criminals who go unpunished?
@@PatrickMcAsey have you ever noticed that babies will bite, hit someone without prompting and even lie? Noticed how they behave guilty when they have for instance peed in a closet? They never saw anyone pee in the closet, so they never learnt it from anyone. The truth is that the human race is a fallen race and original sin is in everyone. As to the cancer and other deadly ailments in children, all humanity must die one day. For some it is the very day they enter this world, for others it is through inexplicable pain. No one knows why. There is no human being born after the fall of the human race is purely and totally innocent. Observing how innocents with no one teaching them begin to do bad things is enough evidence.
The guy was a Chairman at Nasdaq. You can't really get any higher in Wall Street in terms of power and status. The SEC refused to investigate him because of his status in Wall Street and ties to Washington DC.
He is, but disappointingly it's actually a 3-part cookbook series, titled "From Entree, to Bourgeoisie- how to host a stunning evening for your family and friends while you're secretly embezzling billions" So it sounds like itd be a bit of a tell-all, but it really only covers a culinary aspect... Such a shame...
Some New York law bans criminals from profiting off of their crimes. I know it applies to violent criminals like the son lf sam killer so itd probably be the same for madoff
@@leozheng1582 In a pyramid scheme you pay earlier investors with the money of new investors, so I assume that a part of this 65B was just returned as profit.
My heartaches for the regular people ripped off by him, and his sons, they must have felt like their lives had been all a lie, esp the one who took his own life.
His sons has nothing to do with the scheme, which is why one of them ended up committing suicide. It’s well documented that neither of them knew. Do some homework.
eh he'll probably be dead by 2025 or so. I'd eat shit daily for last 15 years of my 86-year existence for $65B, I'd bet most would. Life pretty much sucks anyway when you are old, living it out in prison isn't much more worse than outside if the payout is worth it.
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*The wife lived the good life and couldn't even bring herself to forgive him or at least visit him in prison. smh. As of this writing, she's still enjoying the freedom and good life brought about by his husband's crime. You'll only know the people who really love you when they stick with you even when times are bad.*
This is so DUMB! He put his two sons at risk to get life in prison. His actions ruined his family and they should stick by his side for what???? He’s literally a criminal.
Bernie did not act alone. The others got away when Bernie handed himself in. And those others, are still active on Wall St today.
You are so right there is no way he did this by himself. The money that he stole too is in offshore account that nobody can trace.
JP Morgan.
Bernie "Made off" with the money .. who knew ? .. nobody, apparently ....
How can One Guy steal 65 billion?
NOBODY had ANY idea! That much money simply CANT be TRACED!
The big wig wall streeters, AND the federal government were PLACED
In those positions by our overlords
If he would have waited a couple of years he would have been able to get a deferred-prosecution agreement. Maybe he still can.
"There was no hard proof so nobody started an investigation". ... :) ? Isn't that the point of an investigation?
Yeah that's like sayin' police finds a body and they start an investigation *ONLY IF* the murderer is next to the body with a knife in its hand 😂😂😂
No. How can you start investigating someone without a clue?
@@notme-sm6zb idk lol let's just not investigate stuff and hope the bad men turn themselves in.
@@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet He was someone high profile and thus most likely people had no reasonable cause to launch and investigation. Also, they need more concrete proof to start an investigation because if they started an investigation for every single claim, they would be hemorrhaging money. It is not economical nor efficient to start an investigation for every single case. If they are sure that there may be something going on, they would dedicate the people and the money. Dedicating both of those with reasonable doubt is not a way to go for any entity.
Sometimes ppl are investigated when the FBI feel they have enough evidence. Doesn’t have to be major or factual but if they feel as if it will lead to what they’re looking for, they can investigate prior to having a lot of hard proof.
In 1960 the average family income for a full year was $5,600. Making $5,000 for a summer of lifeguarding makes zero sense.
There people create their own mythology he came from money end of story.
He did get tips
@@frankdenardo8684 tips? In what world do you tip a lifeguard? That’s retarded.
@@n1kobefan Sir, would you like to come in my boat? That will be $10.
@@frankdenardo8684 Excellent point!!
They literally ruined people's lives with their criminality and then they get upset they get hate mail? Amazing.
She also i DARED to say "beyond anything". Like, bitch stfu lol.
Yeah, european aristocrats mostly 😂 the horror
@@GabiGris a British veteran literally commuted suicide over losing his family’s life savings to Madoff.
@@GabiGris your wrong these are house of card one fell then your bank that had Invested your fund and saving as investment j believing it was a safe one just got wipe out and you just lost everything this what happened to millions during 2008 these people play whit the money that belong to you and when they lost it and start to go bankrupt the central bank give then bailout
@@souvikrc4499 I heard about 18 people commited suicide.
“We had terrible phone calls, hatemail...terrible depression” no shit lady
Peoples anger doesn’t surprise me when they invested their money with Madoff and he lost it all. It would be like having your life savings taken away from you.
it was so horrendous...yeah fuck you bitch. Both of them deserved it.
i dont understand her saying this lol does she expect us to be sorry for her this pissed me off lol
@TMoD7007 because nobody can prove she did anything
To be fair she's not actually saying they did not deserve those. Just that it was hard... Which you would expect it to be.
What is astounding is that everyone believes or pretends to believe that he did it all by himself, and there was no one else involved.
True
Power corrupts and Humans seldom do not fall for it.
So true and the same can be said about Epstein. Now that he is "dead" everyone actually believes the kiddie porn/sex trade problem is solved and its not.
Ravi Kulkarni He Real He took the Fall Like a Real Man I’m proud of Him
@Kilo Byte I don't doubt that for a minute
One of the plastic surgeons I used to work with had less than a year to retire when all this went down & he lost all of that money. He couldn't retire & he had to keep working well into old age, even when his hands were shaky... He was a brilliant surgeon but you have to stop after a certain point & it's just absolutely shameful that after a long & successful career he had no choice but to continue working...
Madoff scammed Elie Wiesel, yes, THAT Elie Wiesel, out of his life savings.
That is also fault of the US system with no to very low social security in Europe he would be retired. That’s you see elderly working in normal jobs in US people in their 70s that’s not normal in à first world country
@@AnnaCN78456 We have social security but the great majority have much more invested than that. The highest amount you can get $3,345 in social security. Most people also get either a pension or 401K from the company they work for. There are many other investment opportunities. That gentleman was a high income person who used one of those special opportunities by investing with Bernie Madoff, unfortunately. It surprises me how people from other countries make assumptions about Americans that are so wrong. We really aren’t all in line at the food pantries or living on the street in a tent.
And I know people who retire & get bored to tears & actually want to work - at least part time.
He must have been an idiot then because everybody knows you just don't pile everything in to 1 investment.
"... and another 50,000 from his father-in-law" Ahh, yes. This must be the renowned bootstraps i've heard so much about lol
The funny part is that phrase originally meant the complete opposite
Bootstraps = bailouts GM knows this well
Bb
That bootstrap quote applies to the carpenter who started a small business, and by 50 he owns his house, can take vacations, send his kids to college, and live well. When you amass millions like Bernie, you've definitely broken a few laws.
@@mario10zeus But the thing is, this quote make no sense : you can't physically pull yourself by your bootstrap.
Which make the quote incredibly funny when most of all self made men and women are actualy made from parents poney and made their money by turning unpayed labor into profits.
My biggest takeaway from this video was that he earned the equivalent of $43,470 working as a lifeguard over the summer. How???
By saving rich people only, and he was fairly compensated
He made 5k from being a lifeguard and the rest his dad gave him
Angami Accent dude ever heard of inflation, in the 60s you can buy a brand new car for that money. Ever had a summer job that paid an new car?
@@Mark-vn7et yes
So he made 5K in one summer working as a lifeguard? Hmmm. something not quite right here.
I love these origin stories, 'he started with 5000 from a lifeguard job, and 50k from his father in law, that's 450k in today money'.
So the dude had a rich family with money to spare 🙄
i don't think it was really 450k
@@OOOOO0KKKKKKKK YUP
@@OOOOO0KKKKKKKK that really only matters insofar as it helps us draw a relative picture of the amount of wealth being talked about. Unless its significantly deviant from the real inflated value, the exact number is arbitrary because it's a hypothetical statement.
That means he made 40-45000 As a lifeguard. In today's money 😏
@@OOOOO0KKKKKKKK you need to realize how life was easier before
"He started with $5000"
Oh cool even I could d--
"and $50,000 from his father in law"
Oh.
welcome to why rich people stay rich
@Dark Shield what difference does that make? Its not happening now, it happened then... when $5000 was worth $5000.
@@swine13 You should look up the word "inflation".
Hmm. Sounds familiar. A small loan of a million dollar.
@Dark Shield imagine making 40k with a summer job today
And Today 14 april 2021 he died at the age of 82
(IN The end he didn't fight he admitted his crime ,he offered his remorse but offered no Excuses)
“If you steal from a Greek we come after you” lmao what is this the wire
I'm not even greek
Kweyzo read my mind
One simple cannot rob the robbers
The wire? ... THIS IS SPARTA!
No this is real life
"We had terrible phone calls, hate mail, it was awful!"
Cried the thieves who brought it all upon themselves.
Yeah, pretty sure she knew all along!
@@SandrineAnterrion 'pretty sure'? How dumb and naive can you be?? The sons knew as well of course. Open your mind.
@@Stoney-Jacksman they both died, one of cancer and one killed himself, they surely knew, i think, and that is what you think as well, but we don't have any kind of evidence, and if you think that making connections based on assumption is proof, then i don't know what to say..... just.... don't open your mind too much, your truths are not everyones
@@NolanGouuveia funk off
@Miss M.I.A. I am trying to give opportunity to people who needs it who also want to pay off there debts and also those who want to make profits okay,if you're interested i can let you know more about it and you can make more cash too.
Can we all hold on for just one second here. The man made $5k as a lifeguard in the 1960s. Thats $40k in todays inflation.
I want this job i like swimming and looking at 👙women
@Sqammer Fn not in one summer
I was about to write this comment myself hahaha
Lol had same thought
And that was just his summer earning as a lifeguard! 3 months?! 10k+ a month?? Makes no sense.
What he did was so horrible, but I still feel bad for his family, especially his sons. You can tell they felt real remorse, and honestly the end part about him not even having someone to talk to and his sons being dead hit pretty hard. His fate truly was worse than death, I don't think I'd want to live with my sons dead and my wife not speaking to me.
well he is dead now too
Exactly right. I feel bad for his sons and their families.
Screw all 4 of them. His son’s didn’t turn him in due to a moral obligation. They did it, after consulting lawyers, to avoid getting caught up in dad’s fraud case. Madoff and his wife even tried to take the easy way out and are now living in a fragment of the hell they forced countless victims into, some still haven’t recovered and even committed suicide. Feel bad for those people and THEIR families, not the people who lived decadent billionaire lifestyles for DECADES, lying and scamming the ENTIRE time. Screw Madoff, screw his family, everyone involved and screw the regulators who declared victory and went home after his conviction rather than pursue his co-conspirators.
Video title should be: “The Man Who Madoff With $65 Billion Dollars”
😂brilliant!
What was Jewish?
Harshit Gupta thank you! I was gonna comment something like this, but I wanted to make sure it wasn’t already done!
Lmfao ..lol
Hahahahaha!
Harshit Gupta ^^^
Great comment!!!
😁
Biggest turn was at the end when it showed that both the sons have passed away. Damn.
Yes, they're gone now ..... but where?
Yeah my mom went to school with the one who killed himself and said he was a genuine person and super friendly. When she found out about the whole thing she was disappointed in him.
Everybody loses..
Very sad
You know why he's in jail?
He stole from the rich.
No?
He stole from everyone.
And even if he only stole from rich, its not like he was a modern Robin Hood. He is a man of greed so he deserves every year in prison.
@@MultiNudelauflauf I think the OC's point is that if he had stolen mainly from poor or middle class people, nothing would've been done about it and he'd still be free.
He stole from everyone, not the super rich though. Moron
He made them rich on other people's money then their money was considered to be stolen ehehe
Sam Bankman-Fried is like "here, hold my beer".
lol
65>10 😒
@@GabiGris , yeah - you make good point. But Madoff had a lot more time to swindle more money than SBF. SBF stole more in less time.
Belfort, Madoff, SBF, there is a pattern but I can't pinpoint it 🤔
The fridge reports give "cold case files" a whole new meaning.
Some of them are said to be quite chilling.
You’re an excellent story teller mate.
thanks
@Lee no problem
thanks
@Lee thanks
@Lee thanks
How can someone say he was the best trader? He never traded anything
lol, never fails to amaze me... "5000 of his own money... and 50,000 from a wealthy relative, just a small loan!"
"Steal from the rich, you get thrown in prison.
Still from the poor, you get called a financial hero."
Madoff was Vintage top ten for sure
Who ever said that clearly doesn't understand economics
@@HenryMcCraken4 That wasn't a economic point, it was a sociological/ psychological one.
Henery McGregor not economics more socio-political
@@hazzasazza444 yeah...i kinda get it now. Then again i dont think this guy, or most billionaires, steal from the poor. Rather people have just inflated slights agaisnt minorities to the point giving bad financial advice is conflated to stealing
I am a very simple man. I see a cold fusion video I hit like.
You are not simple then (~_^)
Hey, I like that! (*)
How original.
stfu no one cares trust me.
Do you mean simple in the head - or what?
"For what profits a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul"
Fuck it, give me the world since souls are fake and don't actually exist.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 Soul don't exist but your essence, humanity and sense of community does, if you don't follow it god won't punish you people will.
@@aakarshchaudhary7359 Fuck 'em, they are welcome to try.
@ Simple: Chaos Theory (that doesn't just deal with chaos but how patterns emerge from randomness all by itself with no outside intervention, sometimes even with the simplest equation to describe it. eg Mandelbrot sets). Life doesn't need a creator when ultimately it created itself, so it isn't all that special and certainly not magical even if it is somewhat unique (reset to the same initial conditions and you won't get the exact same course of evolution). In short there's nothing different between a live guy and a dead guy, just a loss of patterns and organization. Not much different between a wind blowing dunes in sand and then shifting and erasing them.
65billion!!
There's no way that one man single handedly fooled the whole financial industry
I agree. Many people knew what he was doing. Ruth knew, but she liked the luxury too much to make him stop. Sad thing is, he was a millionaire without the scam. Greed.
It was never one man. He's a jew that tells you all you need to know.
Yes, it tells me that you think race is real, which makes you an idiot and invalidates anything you have to say.
@@RJKTOh look, a Nazi in the wild.
Now do a video on the Hedge Fund owners who stole $5T of the Baby Boomers’ life savings in 2008; and not a single one went to jail.
Lol😂😂😂 why did they invest there life savings
The Banking system cannot be trusted in USA ! You can call them Bankster! Not so much in CDA.
@@ArtSmosh1274 investing your life-saving prevent it from being depleted, it is extremely dangerous if you retire and getting old with no money.
Ok boomer
Word of advice: Don't invest in US economic machinery. It's too corrupted. And the thiefs own the legislature.
Invest in Japan/EU instead.
Jokes aside, the Balls Madoff must have had to scam so many people out of such much money must be enormous.
They were filled with sacs of money.
Hello bot!!
Justin Y is a real person
How do you watch the video so fast?
More like he had lied so much that he lost control of the narrative decades ago.
He literally had to keep lying to stay alive, the sad part is he was already successful before he started the scam.
Greed got him.
Imagine losing your life’s saving to this scam
Imagine not diversifying your life saving investments
Michael Choe I know several who did. Clawing ones way back to solvency isn’t pretty.
Rykehuss Imagine there’s mainly a corrupt field into which one can “invest”.
@@krisoluich9119 You shouldn't invest your life savings
Why did the invest there life savings
I guess greed isn't good. Remember, Smith Barney said, "we make our money the old fashioned way, we earn it." Simple rule to live by. It shocked me how many people were willing to give Bernie millions of dollars with a guarantee of high returns consistently. No market works that way. A few financial experts called out Bernie and said he had to be running a Ponzi scheme.
Because, they can make money of it, before bubble cracks.
If you invest lets say 1M and you get lets say 1.2M back, after 5 invest cycles you are on your own, even if it happens to crack. Everything above that is profit, so as far as ponzi keeps going, you will still be profitable. And when it cracks, you lose only that 1M. Its no lose scenario. You can even double your investment after that, but your risk is still only that 1M.
For smarter ones.
Stupid ones will keep filling everything back into scheme and lose everything. But if you play it smart, you can make legally lots of money on this scam. Only loser, besides idiots, is ponzi cheme runner, but you can always say "i didnt know anything". Nobody can take your money away, because you did nothing illegal.
Thats why everyone pretended they had no suscpicion. Not at all......
I don't believe people like him, the One Coin lady, or the Theranos creep are so charismatic that no one questions them, especially fellow business people. Game knows game.
Holmes was young and glamorous. Easily fooled people, especially President Clinton
His name was actually "Made off".
The mad is off
Mad Dog
what was he made of
@@kevinimp8217 He made off with the money
Well at first. Then he lost his fortune, reputation, freedom, death of his children, wife. Basically lost everything.
it still is somewhat lost on me how one makes 5k working as a life quard in the 60's, like whaaat
I’m about halfway through the video but this is all I can think about lol
I’m about halfway through the video but this is all I can think about lol
He saved rich only, maybe?
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Crassus style: pay up or drown ^^
To be fair the video just says summer job, doesnt specify how many summers he did the job. He could have worked for four or more summers saving up. Still does seem like a high wage for the job, but he could have been working at a country clubs pool or something similarly higher end.
The fact that I lived through the crash of 2008 but don't remember it freaks me out for some reason
same! well I was only 8 years old for that, but I think about how blurry the covid 19 years feel, or the whole SBF crypto bust only 1-2 years back and me not even knowing he existed lol, i was really in my own world lol. i think it is felt most by the people who are hit hardest. life is a trip
I was 17 at the time. I didn't really measure the impact back then.
Same here brother I was just a kid
*Getting up to go somewhere*
*Sees ColdFusion video*
*Sits back down*
So so like me!
@Austin Martín Hernández and it's 10pm in East Africa. Small world!
Man, it broke my heart when I heard that one of his sons committed suicide after all this. Imagine getting so much hate for your fathers actions that you are driven to suicide
Most likely he was in on it. Remember we are not going to be told everything
The son killed himself on the 2nd anniversary of his arrest to dig the knife in. Having said that, i still can't believe they didn't know. They ran the business with him, how could they not?
Mark Madoff didn't commit 'suicide.' Curious Andrew, the younger brother died of 'cancer' 4 years later.
I will change my last name and new identity it can happen
@J d with enough money you can do anything! Every man has his price. In China you can get anything.......
Madoff problem was he did not steal enough money, had he stole over 100 Billion he would have been labeled "TO BIG TO FAIL" and would have been protected from prosecution
Sad but true. Lol
he was a head on a pike and a scapegoat for the Deep State! The biggest collapse is yet to come and Trump will then blame it on the Fed!
2----(too) BIG 2 fail
Honestly idk if I can say this would be true. We see other countries fail all the time. Even if the pot is big because there's more money to be made when there is recovery.
@@my5cents4u it won't happen during trumps presidency.
This is a sad story. A lot of people committed suicide after losing everything they had. I believe his son's handed him over to the Fed's. Also i believe one of the son's committed suicide very very sad. And the wife saying we had terrible phone calls and threatening email. What did she expect after what this fool did for money.
Even officials at the US Federal Reserve thought that Madoff was a brilliant financier.
He fooled everyone -- except Harry Markopolos, who determined that Madoff's success was impossible.
Yeah that’s what they told everyone lol
And that was the beginning of scams in the world.
All of your videos are so well researched. Helped me pass an exam also lol. Thanks bro.
He looks like a Scooby Doo villain.
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This more reminds me of Death Note.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
LOOOL
"And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling investigators!"
The moral of the story is if you're going to rip someone off and hope to get away with it, make sure it's not the wealthy you target.
Spoiler alert:
He robs someone on the street carrying 65 Billion dollars in coins
Not likely, even $100 bills is 715 tons = 36 semi truck loads.
aw dang it, now i can't watch the rest of the video
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 yeah because i was totally not being sarcastic
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 yeah because i was totally not sarcastic
Are we going to sit here and accept that Bernie did this all by himself?
Lol
Exactly ! Gotta be a huge story there.
Maybe, but you have to be careful about who you point a finger at. I've always felt his kids were innocent and paid a price they should never have had to pay for his horrific greed.
Yes, he's a self made man. LOL.
He was the mastermind of it all. He made every executive decision, the guys at the top always take the hardest fallout, regardless of other people's actions.
Are we going to sit here and accept that Bernie did this all by himself?
Lol
Isn't Markopolos the guy who is accusing GE of cooking their books, wow just wow.
Patryk Matusiewicz His hips don't lie bro.
What is meaning of '' cooking their books ''?
alfa77qwx forging their earnings, thereby avoiding taxes. Cooking=editing Books=balance sheets
@@jamestest6371 thanks for the explanation!
What's your profession?
In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of his views, supplying supporting documents, but each time the SEC ignored him or gave his evidence only a cursory investigation.
SEC need investigation.
Excellent work as per usual my man.
عاش من شافك والله زمان عمر
"we tried to kill ourselves but we were too stupid."
Thats prolly why they also invested 100% of their money in stocks....without diversifying
@@Scorch428 "100%" for sure buds. They probably have over a billion combines overseas. The man created a future for the upcoming 10 generations only to spend the rest of his life in "house arrest", while none of his accomplices ever got charged and are coming up with new schemes every day. So the real question is, is he the one stupid, or are you the one that is truly stupid?
They swallowed a bunch of fish oil capsules 💊
@@Group_Anonymous
They swallowed non kosher food.
@@Group_Anonymous - Bwahaha! If anything, they were healthier when they woke up! Genius strategy TBH!
imagine how pissed those office workers were when they found out the could of gotten a 200mill bonus divided among them, but his son turned him in. LMFAOOO
Of course you can't trust whoever said that
Even if they got their bonuses the receiver would have clawed it all back.
It was basically stolen money, I doubt they'd have been allowed to keep it.
Keeping ill gotten funds would’ve made them accomplices in the scheme.
Memelord McMeme Which is why the sons turned him in, had they gone through with that they WOULD be accomplices, there chance of not being held as accomplices to the whole scam would decrease significantly.
Good to see that at least their kids had the backbone to turn their dad in
She's acting like the victim even though she was married to him and probably knew all along. I hope they both live long, miserable lives.
Duuuude my thought exactly. What a disgusting pieve of shit playing the victim card. "we got these phone calls and hate mail". I wonder why bitch.
Um even his sons didnt know so how tf did you expect her to?
@@okaysoanyways2645 she's either lying or was blissfully ignorant of her husband's actions
QUEEN FAMOUS because there’s a big difference between what you tell your kids and what you tell your wife. I find it hard to believe she didn’t know what was going on.
it's basic psychology for any person, "it's not my fault"
that is why people search for strong evidence
Kinda strange, I really didn't want Bernie and his wife to die and was relieved when they didn't. Almost dropped a tear when hearing what happened to his sons.
Cold Fusion is an artist.
that you call karma dude, you do bad things nature kicks back. why you think all drug lords end deadth or in jail Doing bad will not stand how rich you are. Nature is always king
@@536767676533766 Nature isn't king, nor is "Nature" the one putting drug lords into federal prison. You can thank the FBI for that, they're the ones doing this. Also, not all drug lords or criminals get caught.
I'm glad Bernie and his wife didn't die, but for a different reason. That was the easy way out - he needed to face justice and be punished for his crimes.
@@536767676533766 drug lord that get know go tell this to me zabamda family they are doing just fine and he'd the real head of the sinaola cartel.
Next thing you know he get kill while writing this
Such as soothing voice, I could listen to him all day
7:51 gotta love the sheer panic and urgency in that reporter's voice! Really makes you relive that moment.
We should rename "Ponzi Scheme" to "Madoff Scheme" Way better new phrase
Why? Ponzi did it way better getting even those who were supposed to investigate him to start investing in him
tomlxyz because he ‘madoff’ its all the money.
@@tomlxyz 🤣🙏🏽
But Ponzi is the guy who popularized it, it wouldn't make much sense
Give Ponzi credit for being first to market
Can't believe I just stumbled on your channel. So informative.
Can you imagine his "POOR WIFE" getting nasty PHONE CALLS even HATE MAIL? after all all her husband did was rob everyone n some of ALL they had
Yeah, I can’t believe she let him down like this! We all know she is still chilling there with the 10k bottle.. because, show me youre panama papers.. 😂
IGMSItoX incel alert
@@IGMSItoX virgin alert
The wife has nothing to do with it. She wasn't the one who robbed people of all they have and destroy all she holds dear. Madoff deserves all this hatred, not the wife.
@@IGMSItoX Strange that, isn't it? Now it's all *her* fault. But of course!
I think the fact that Madoff started with $55000 but 90% of that was from his dad, showed how even with a scam, he probably couldn't have gotten nearly as far as he did without generational wealth. For honest investors as well, that's a fact of life that contributes arguably more to success than just their intellect and drive.
I never understood the "stock".
$65 billion gone ? To where ? Heaven?
Jessica Tale its reallocated away.
$65b of people's money gone into other people's pockets
@@SJ-cv4jk but where the ponzi schemer get the profit? Explain pls
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 He profits while he's at the top of the scheme in the early stages, when the flow of cash is positive to his side. But, when too many people want their money back and less people get involved in the scheme the flow of cash is ''negative'' to the "Owner" of the scheme. Well, you need to see the big picture: he promises endless returns because he promisses that the money that goes to the scheme is invested somehow but this isn't true so he doesn't have money to pay back, and when there is too much people involved the amount of money that he needs to pay is like, 100 times more than what he does have. He only can profit of this if he give up like, 2 to 3 years after the begining of the scheme but he is well known on the market and stuff so he was a double idiot by doing this cause he wouldnt disapear.
@@RafaelVictor_1337 ok thanks
Well, that's one really crazy story. I just read the Wikipedia page and it's really unbelievable how much damage this guy has caused. It just doesn't end.
You can’t steal that sum without help from SEC and treasury.
EXACTLY! He was a scapegoat for the bigger fish! The next crash will reveal the puppet masters behind the curtain and the entire central banking system will be exposed and hopefully shit canned!
A big part of that money didn't just disappeared. It has been funneled to Israel... the biggest mafia state in the world !
And that's why Madoff has not been "suicided" in his cell.
@@ed1658 and you would feel "well" sitting in jail waiting to die? He doesn't even get the Epstein treatment but will die a slow and boring death behind bars which he deserves. Oh by the way.... Hillary and Obama is coming to join him soon - but they probably will get shipped to GITMO
@@ed1658 everything will change! The Deep state is being exposed and their firewalls and protections are stripped down one by one! The TRUTH will eventually come out that Barry Soetoro (aka Obama ) married to Micheal (aka Michelle) have fooled and committed Treasonous acts against the entire world and the USA. These guys and many more are criminals and will by lynched and hang from lamp poles when the truth is coming out!
@@ed1658 well it sounds like you are somewhat half woken up.... you have yet to figure out that Barry Soetoro is married to a man! Born in Kenya Africa and not even a US citizen! Pushed up and forward by the Deep State. Yes - "Michelle" is a transgender but will we ever let the world know that they have fooled and conned the entire world and did it from the Whitehouse with our taxmoney?? Probably not and the ones working close to them who know are silenced or threatened. Bring on the FISA reports and let the hammer drop and all the last 24 years of corrupt traitors either executed for Treason or locked up for live in GITMO! Time to do some more deep digging in the deep state before you blabber about any more lies fed to you. Start here!
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You guys missed two GIANT points. First off, you don't even mention the efforts of Frank Casey, who provided Markopolous with the details needed to go after Madoff, and did so over several years, on his own tab. Look up the documentary "Chasing Madoff" (among other films) & you'll find him. Second, the main reason why Bernie turned himself in wasn't because of the complaints from his victims; it was because at the point of the 2008 crash, he had essentially run out of "legitimate" investors, and the bulk of the money coming in was coming from organized crime, most especially the Russian mafia. Bernie knew that if he stayed on the outside, he was a dead man. Thus, he went to prison to stay alive, and it worked beautifully, from his perspective.
You know it's going down when you hear, "HOOIII, welcome to another cold fusion video."
Don't forget that those investors who exited in time made a profit. Not everybody lost on the scheme.
sadly most didn't exit, they just "let it ride" too long. the vast majority only got 30% of their money back (if any at all, biggest banks probably get priority).
There was a process to make them pay it back. Can't remember what it's called, but those who lost got a bit back, and those who gained were made to pay back the profits. The ones who invested via hedge funds lost the most bc it was so muddled and the record keeping was so opaque. There's a good documentary by the son of one of the victims. Can't remember what it's called though, sorry.
@@moimeself1088 "Clawback"?
@@dude999642 that's the one! Thanks!
Coldfusion is such a beautifully made channel
I've been binge watching your playlist lately. You don't need to say the next episode is a good one. They're all good ones.
This guy and his family lived amazing lives of luxury, kids probably had an amazing childhood, but good ole Karma never fails.
@@zdenkozorko8974 Sure it does but when it doesn't we say Karma! You overanalyzed the shit out of it. calm down socrates.
Madoff was his middle name. His full name was was “Bernie Madoff with the Money”
This is the most boomer millenial joke I've ever seen in my life.
So glad he hadn't Madoff with any of my money ..
Wow! What a startlingly original sense of humour you have.
ColdFusion has given me so much knowledge about the world and he keeps on doing it. I appreciate Dagogo dedication to the way he finds out the truth. True teacher for me
RIP Mark and Andrew and thank you for turning in your father. You did the right thing. Bernie will rot in prison.
Well, indeed he did, he died in prison in April 2021 at the age of 82.
He's from my home town, and went to the local high school, i tell you one thing that school has everything but a good reputation.
Was it upper class bad, or inner city type bad? Weirdly rural?
@@gayboadvanced2397 Inner City type bad.
@@olijohclarke1975 wow that's interesting, I wouldn't have guessed
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws" Plato
:50 - "At $65 billion, it was the largest ponzi scheme the world had ever seen."
No, that title belongs to the U.S. government.
US government, the banking system and the concept of money might look a little fraudulent because of the continuous inflation caused by printing money but how does it make it a ponzi scheme,in a ponzi scheme a person invests in a company and in return sees that his investments have had growth while in reality the growth is fueled by perpetual flow of new investors.But that isn't the case with usd is it,the value of usd isn't artificially growing instead the exact opposite happens because of inflation....Think before you write.
The perpetual flow of new investors are new citizens. Americans' social security numbers are traded on the stock market (stock, like cattle). Every "cow" is milked for about half of his earnings, and there is no return. Infrastructure crumbles, education is a joke... A ponzi scheme is better. At least then a person has a choice to invest his money instead of watching his tax dollars go to investigate the investigators of the last investigation into the corrupt government. Pay your money to the government so the government can protect you from the government... worse than the mob.
@@retrocausality6159 lmao you're an idiot
@@retrocausality6159 Stay poor and live on welfare, then there is an actual return since welfare checks and food stamps are not taxed. What I did was work for 10 years to up the disability check a bit and then applied for disability based on insanity. Up until 1998 you could call being an alcoholic hobo a disability (in effect free booze).
@@Leisosa If one's financial manager said he was $22 trillion in debt, he would quit investing, but tax payers have no choice. I have no receipts. Where did that money go? Safety, education, infrastructure? Nah, it went into lobbyists, big corporations, and politicians pockets. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make..
Wow, that's a great and nice ideal..
I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control. With the least important consideration being the question of where to buy and sell.
Bitcoin trading right now will be at every wise individuals list.. In few minutes you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today..
Bitcoin trading nowadays is a big change to make money...
Bitcoin: Is the only true democracy ever exists in the world..
People like him are everywhere.
Jews definitely are everywhere these days.. Jews gotta jew
@@freikorps7799 don't be mad that jews are smartest
I wonder what his incarceration looks like compared to the guy sent down for stealing 65 dollars to feed his family? I can’t help but think the latter has it tougher.
He's at Butner which I ended up in as a pot smuggling teenager. They literally have a tennis court. Its nice than some hotels I've paid to stay in.
So many things that have been thrown in our faces as examples and pinnacles of success , for generations have crumbled into hollow ruins
"On February 17, 2022, Madoff's sister, Sondra Weiner, and her husband, Marvin, were both found dead with gun wounds in their Boynton Beach, Florida home. The deaths of Sondra, 87, and Marvin, 90, were labeled by police as a potential murder-suicide" - Wikipedia (Holy crap)
Holy crap. I had no idea. Thanks for that. I'm going to look it up. Wonder why they did it.
I was literally just reading about him an hour ago for the first time ever, and you upload a video on him. Strange.
First time ever? TF
@@mountainman6172 I was too busy watching Spongebob at 6 yrs old, plus there isn't a thing finance mentioned at school, so I'm out to study it on my own.
Look up C. G. Jung's concept of synchronicity.
@@mountainman6172 I didn't even know this guy before, hell I don't even know how something like wall street works
@GreenRuiJinoid it’s known as synchronicity. Everything in the universe runs on energy... you were simply “tuned in” to this frequency.
I just stumbled across your videos, I love your channel! The way you go out of your way to locate appropriate footage and photographs instead of just, like, using stock footage of a guy counting cash or whatever - it's a cut above!
65 billion? Impressive... but he could learn a thing or two with Ricardo Salgado, the portuguese banker who stole over 200 billion and walks free in the streets. Oh and he managed to make us pay for the whole thing and he even received bonus for good management. Now that's something worth of a movie. Damn, even a whole series about it
Greed is the ultimate reason why people often lost their hard earned money. Don’t feel sorry for anyone who lost something because of GREED.
Question: What life guard on what planet could earn $5000 in 3 months in the 1960 economy? Whatever the ultimate scapegoat was doing then for money had nothing to do with being a life guard.
Can you make a video on the 1992 Harshad Mehta stock market scam? I find it a lot more intriguing because it involves multiple different financial crimes.
If u hav deatils.
send me
*Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time*
Yeah! I agree with you sir.
If you want to be successful have the mindset of the rich, spend less and invest More. Don't give up your dreams.
@@peterbedley2719 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.
@@itoboreoghenevwegba4306 That's very correct sir!!
And that is why most of them end up losing they money to scammers.
Don't be in a haste to invest. Know what and who you are investing to and be sure that the person will deliver before investing.
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Bernie Maddoff Steals 65bn$
Meanwhile Elon Musk: Hold my twitter account
What did Elon steal?
My first thought when I saw how much money he stole and lost was "This is larger than Croatia's GDP" and then I saw you put the same comparison on the end of the video :D
Thanks for another great one!
Waiting for the Wework video. Could you also add the stories of Wework's competitors in the same video?
It was good to be reminded of this stupendous fraud and to learn of the tragic aftermath for his family. I didn't realise what happened to both of Madoff's sons - or that his wife wasn't speaking to him any more. I understand that at least four other people committed suicide because of this fraud.
The ultimate punishment is the death of the sons
@@maximillianafrancine1451 What nonsense is this? There. Is no such thing as 'natural punishment'. And by what twisted logic can the death of an innocent person be 'punishment' for someone else?
@@PatrickMcAsey You cannot cause death, illness, loss to others and expect to go scotch free. There is natural punishment and what happened to his sons is one form of it.
@@maximillianafrancine1451 You mean, of course, 'scot free'. Well, if you seriously believe in natural justice then how do you explain young children having bone cancer? What wrong have they done? How do you explain the numerous vile criminals who go unpunished?
@@PatrickMcAsey have you ever noticed that babies will bite, hit someone without prompting and even lie? Noticed how they behave guilty when they have for instance peed in a closet? They never saw anyone pee in the closet, so they never learnt it from anyone. The truth is that the human race is a fallen race and original sin is in everyone. As to the cancer and other deadly ailments in children, all humanity must die one day. For some it is the very day they enter this world, for others it is through inexplicable pain. No one knows why. There is no human being born after the fall of the human race is purely and totally innocent. Observing how innocents with no one teaching them begin to do bad things is enough evidence.
The guy was a Chairman at Nasdaq. You can't really get any higher in Wall Street in terms of power and status. The SEC refused to investigate him because of his status in Wall Street and ties to Washington DC.
This guy even got my grandpa for 40k.
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@Jure Nefashu no i haven't are you not interested in Bitcoin investment
@Jure Nefashu I will prove it to you that it's an investment if you're are ready inbox me on my WhatsApp
Damn. Sorry Gramps.
Stank ass Dirty Madoff🤭
@Jure Nefashu that’s what an investment is...
I hope he's writing a book in prison, would be absolutely fascinating to read
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He is, but disappointingly it's actually a 3-part cookbook series, titled "From Entree, to Bourgeoisie- how to host a stunning evening for your family and friends while you're secretly embezzling billions"
So it sounds like itd be a bit of a tell-all, but it really only covers a culinary aspect...
Such a shame...
I never understood the "stock".
$65 billion gone ? To where ? Heaven?
Some New York law bans criminals from profiting off of their crimes. I know it applies to violent criminals like the son lf sam killer so itd probably be the same for madoff
@@leozheng1582 In a pyramid scheme you pay earlier investors with the money of new investors, so I assume that a part of this 65B was just returned as profit.
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12:39 moral of the story don't steal from the elite, rather exploit the less fortunate.
My heartaches for the regular people ripped off by him, and his sons, they must have felt like their lives had been all a lie, esp the one who took his own life.
His sons has nothing to do with the scheme, which is why one of them ended up committing suicide. It’s well documented that neither of them knew. Do some homework.
It’s late 2019 and he’s still in jail.
Good, don't ever let him out.
And we r going to 2020
eh he'll probably be dead by 2025 or so. I'd eat shit daily for last 15 years of my 86-year existence for $65B, I'd bet most would. Life pretty much sucks anyway when you are old, living it out in prison isn't much more worse than outside if the payout is worth it.
@BackToSchool I thought it was Markopolos who checked his car for bombs, not Madoff.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 yeah, especially now with the pandemic
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*The wife lived the good life and couldn't even bring herself to forgive him or at least visit him in prison. smh. As of this writing, she's still enjoying the freedom and good life brought about by his husband's crime. You'll only know the people who really love you when they stick with you even when times are bad.*
This is so DUMB! He put his two sons at risk to get life in prison. His actions ruined his family and they should stick by his side for what???? He’s literally a criminal.