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Bernard Madoff

バーナード・L・マドフ　/　ばーなーど・L・まどふ

American stockbroker

April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021　・　Queens, New York, United States

New York
stockbroker
financier
economist

My Take

I find Madoff endlessly fascinating, not as a villain to gawk at but as a case study in how trust gets weaponized. Here was a man respectable enough to chair Nasdaq, and that respectability was precisely the instrument of the fraud. What strikes me most is the patience of the deception, decades of falsified statements sustained by reputation rather than returns. His story should be required reading for anyone who invests: the most dangerous pitch is the one that sounds boringly safe. He died in prison in 2021, but the lesson he left behind, that skepticism is a form of self-defense, feels more relevant every year.

Overview

Bernard Lawrence Madoff (; April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Bernard Madoff
Name (Japanese): バーナード・L・マドフ
Reading: ばーなーど・L・まどふ
Born: April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Tiger
Origin: Queens, New York, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: stockbroker / financier / economist / banker / broker

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Far Rockaway High School
University: Hofstra University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BBL%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%95

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