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| Subject: How The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert de Niro, made a man out of a monster Sun May 21, 2017 10:31 pm | |
| When the Bernie Madoff scandal broke in mid-December 2008, the housing bubble had burst and the economy was in free fall, closing the year on a four-mouth stretch in which 2.4 million people lost their jobs – and the hemorrhaging wasn't nearly over yet.
At the time, the average American couldn't make sense of terms such as "credit default swaps" and "collateralised debt obligations," and not only was Wall Street not paying for its recklessness, it needed a bailout from taxpayers to stanch the bleeding.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/drama/how-the-wizard-of-lies-starring-robert-de-niro-made-a-man-out-of-a-monster-20170519-gw8yt5.html |
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