Bernard Madoff and Ponzi Schemes

这种骗局不会有结局的，只要人的贪婪不结束。

当然有效避免这种现象的出现，是加入强制性报表披露和CPA审计，投资者提高自身的鉴赏水平。

但是，目前只有公开上市的公司才是强制的。

The most interesting question raised by the scandal is why though it apparently continued for decades it was never detected by the Securities and Exchange Commission, even though beginning eight years ago a money manager named Harry Markopolos began bombarding the Commission with letters accusing Madoff of operating a Ponzi scheme. (The fact that Madoff did not sue Markopolos for libel should have been another warning sign.) There are two hypotheses. One is that regulation is hopelessly inefficient, and that it should be up to investors to protect themselves as best they can against securities frauds. The SEC's budget was increased substantially in 2004 in reaction to its failure to have detected the Enron, World Com, and other financial scandals that erupted in the early years of the new century, yet it still failed to detect Madoff's scheme. The other hypothesis is that under Chairman Christopher Cox (as under the first chairman appointed by President Bush, Harvey Pitt), the SEC has been too trusting of the securities industry, as part of a general philosophy of deregulation, small government, and laissez-faire that has characterized the Bush Administration. The SEC does seem to have been asleep at the switch quite a bit of late.