Sesame Street Explains the Madoff Scandal

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Sesame Street Explains the Madoff Scandal

A friend of mine, who works in finance, was literally crying with laughter as he described the following (hilarious) clip to me over dinner tonight.

The Wikipedia entry on Bernie Madoff.

And here is a very sad article in the Wall Street Journal about the age-old Jewish fear. It doesn’t matter whether or not the fear is well-grounded; in this case, as in so many others, perception is everything.

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The Cookie Monster impression was very authentic! I can’t wait to get my hands on the Richard Behar (http://www.richardbehar.com/) tell all. There are two commissioned biographies, apparently…

(and I quote):

In 2010, HarperCollins will release an investigative work, currently untitled, by reporter-anchor Andrew Kirtzman, who has been featured on the New York City television stations WCBS and NY1. Random House will publish a Madoff book, also currently untitled, by Richard Behar, a journalist who has written for Time, Fortune and other magazines.

1. Adam Daniel Mezei
on April 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
The SOB stole my pension money, thanks to my dumb bank.

2. rami
on April 11th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
On the WSJ article, I agree that perception IS everything, as is paranoia. How can the writer be sure that the person overheard speaking on the cellphone wasn’t saying ‘YOU Wall Street bankers’ in a Latino accent? Joking aside I’ve experienced one or two moments of dread when among friends discussing the economic crisis, fearing that someone will bring up “the Jews” but so far it hasn’t come to that – my paranoia or a well-founded hunch that it is on the tips of their tongues? It also reminded me of a story my grandmother told about overhearing a conversation between two women in 1940s London who were discussing a company that was having problems – being investigated for fraud, perhaps? One said to the other “Jews, you know” and the other one nodded in agreement.

3. ilanit
on April 12th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I loved your compendium of life in in neve shaanan but most of – though I am not sentimental – the face of that crying junkie wrung my heart.

5. flora james
on May 4th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
YouTube tells me: “This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, be sure to accept the sender’s friend request”. I don’t understand what that means.

6. Ron Newman
on October 19th, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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