Look, I’m not saying this is a bad idea, but why must everything out of the Securities and Exchange Commission sound so god damn dumb? “Fraud college”? Is sticking “college” on the end of it supposed to make the thing seem prestigious? Like Hamburger University? It’s called telling people how to do their jobs, and not get the shit ridden out of them by the most famous dick in the world. It doesn’t need a name (though kudos for having the restraint to not call it the “fraud institute”). And then you have Dean of Students Schapiro chiming in that this unbridled genius blows her mind?
The Securities and Exchange Commission may create a “fraud college” to train staff in detecting market abuses after the agency failed to stop Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme, Chairman Mary Schapiro said.
“The fraud college concept is a great one,” Schapiro said today at a joint meeting with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington. Coordinating fraud-detection training with the CFTC “would be particularly valuable,” she said.
Mary Schapiro School For Kids Who Can’t Find Their Heads From Their Asses, And Want To Learn To Do Other Stuff
clown college is right
it’s unfortunate this mary chick wasn’t around when I was running my business. you know i love blonde women. i would’ve tapped that ass so hard. you dont even know.
-berns
I wonder if they would let me lead an online class?
BM
Fraud College?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hnwvWhbJw&feature=related
I’m a college fraud. Should I apply?
Hey Mary, your mom goes to college.
Hey Mary, your mom goes to college.
Nice to see everyone has 20/20 hindsight. Even is someone had an MBA from Fraud College and an internship at Dewey Cheatum & Howe, there’s no way they could have suspected what Bernie was up to.
Or they could, ya know, hire people who already know wtf they’re doing, but I mean whatever
Bernie M. does not approve of Fraud U…he comes from the school of hard knocks.
…and isn’t prison generally considered ‘crime school’…why don’t we just send the SEC to jail if they’re so eager to learn? Now THAT’S an idea!
Hey guys, what I miss?
Porker Stansberry
more like clownface college
@13 true story!
-bernie
actally, sorry, i think actually did bang that broad.
-berns
Asher Roth loves this idea.
WIth 14 returning starters, an improving defense and solid talent to replenish the quarterback and running back positions, Fraud U is poised to earn a New Year’s Day bowl bid for the second straight year, something the Fightin’ Scammers havent done since 1987-88.
Thanks to the absense of Ponzi State from this year’s schedule, making a run at a share of the conference title is not out of the question for a team that finished only one game behind the Big House champion Ponzinators a year ago.
From Year 1 to Year 2 under new coach Bernie Madoff, the Scammers improved from 2-6 to 4-1 in games decided by seven points of less. That trend must continue.
CFA, MBA or Fraud College?
First rule of fraud college is there is no fraud college.
“Christ. Seven years of fraud college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.”
Hopefully there will be an elective on the benefits of applying make-up.
Geez woman…
I did learn to apply make up, new looks becomes me so well (or so I am told).
berns
Earth to Mary – just quit already and let someone qualified do the job.
“Fraud College”??? They are talking about Harvard aren’t they?
@24 – More like Wharton but you got the drift
I don’t think her hand gestures are referring to Madoff in any way.
~The Observant Trader
@24 well played sir, well played
Now, seriously folks. How much is “Fraud College” really supposed to help people who were presented with a paper that said “his trading strategy is impossible because the volume of trades required for it to work is more than any exchange has ever reported?”
What’s needed is something like fraud Pre-K.
Let’s start with coloring, move on to Dr. Seuss (the 7-bunt Whunt for starters), and we’ll deal with more complicated items as they arise.
@28
GTFO with your logic, facts and sh*t, this is the SEC we’re talkin’ about here, those things are erroneous, moot, irrelevant, etc!
Send them the movie “Stock Shock” for an education. This new film explains the whole process of market manipulation and is a pretty good movie. On DVD only, of course. Amazon has it or stockshockmovie.com
Send them the movie “Stock Shock” for an education. This new film explains the whole process of market manipulation and is a pretty good movie. On DVD only, of course. Amazon has it or stockshockmovie.com
Give Mary a break. She nailed Tyler Durden for insider trading while at FINRA. I hear he’s going to be an assistant professor at FU.
As a lowly individual investor, I find this post amusing. Yeah the SEC screwed up with Madoff, but what about the morons who brought us into the worst economic debacle in decades? I’m not convinced that Wall St is operated by a bunch of geniuses either.
As a lowly individual investor, I find this post amusing. Yeah the SEC screwed up with Madoff, but what about the morons who brought us into the worst economic debacle in decades? I’m not convinced that Wall St is operated by a bunch of geniuses either.
As a lowly individual investor, I find this post amusing. Yeah the SEC screwed up with Madoff, but what about the morons who brought us into the worst economic debacle in decades? I’m not convinced that Wall St is operated by a bunch of geniuses either.
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