The guy that blew the whistle on Madoff says there is one bigger than Madoff

If you look into some of the least discussed reasons as to why these scams have a captive audience...well, I'd still argue that it falls at the feet of the Fed...Many of the "investors" in these schemes are looking to replace that steady interest income they had with normalized rates (and are completely risk-averse investors)...the schemers know this...that is why so much of the language is parsed with "income" and "conservative and consistent monthly returns"...It's the same reason why there is a captive audience for trading iron condors/credit spreads, etc, etc...there is a large contingency of investors who want nothing to do with speculating in stocks and/or buying high yield debt (heck they've seen this film twice in the past 15 years)...
 
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