{"id":22889,"date":"2008-12-14T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-12-14T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:46:00","slug":"madoff-madoff-donde-he-visto-yo-algo-parecido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/madoff-madoff-donde-he-visto-yo-algo-parecido\/","title":{"rendered":"Madoff, Madoff\u2026 where have I seen something like that before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Madoff-732841.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 191px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Madoff-732815.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Madoff2-794475.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 211px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Madoff2-794469.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the operating account and profit margin no longer matter, when the only thing that matters is raising more capital to meet payments and the fictitious returns owed, the end is near. <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/tae-709920.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 173px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/tae-709904.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>But many hedge fund investors who neither understand nor care about transparency nor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Buffett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">understanding<\/a> the business\u2014they couldn\u2019t care less. All they see is a return that places them among an elite group of \u00abgifted\u00bb investors, who manage to turn a profit even in difficult years thanks to cutting-edge techniques, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/freshfamilyoffice.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/todos-descorrelacionar-alternativamente.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternative and uncorrelated<\/a>, which only the smartest can decipher, and these are the ones who don\u2019t invest or those who manage it.<\/p>\n<p>Ponzi, Madoff and many others, both anonymous and well-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informativos.telecinco.es\/operacion\/estafa\/sociedades_filatelia\/dn_25035.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trainees,<\/a> disappeared either before or after the lights came on. However, other vital and well-established businesses are coming closer than is desirable to dangerous practices, at a time when liquidity is drying up and a recession looms. For example, savings banks paying double-digit interest rates to attract funds to plug liquidity gaps, or a National Insurance system striving to maintain the healthcare system at the expense of the pension system.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Piramides_de_Egipto-777860.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 573px; height: 429px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rankia.com\/blog\/familyoffice\/uploaded_images\/Piramides_de_Egipto-777850.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the current climate, where money vanishes in exchange for bricks that nobody wants or gets tied up in companies that are closing down, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcvidal.cat\/espanol\/2008\/10\/el-dinero-es-ar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">money is rice<\/a>, many <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">large, reputable companies <\/span>are looking more and more like Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. A dramatic transformation that could prove even more devastating than<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/freshfamilyoffice.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/hyip-hyiphurra.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Ponzi scheme<\/a>, only this time it must have been unintentional.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando ya no importa la cuenta de explotaci\u00f3n ni el margen de beneficios, cuando lo importante es ya s\u00f3lo captar m\u00e1s principal para poder hacer frente a los pagos y rentabilidades ficticias debidas, el final est\u00e1 pr\u00f3ximo. Pero a muchos inversores Hedge que no conocen ni les importa la transparencia ni la comprensi\u00f3n del negocio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clusterfamilyoffice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}