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...think everyone knew the call would come one day. We all hoped, but we knew deep down it was too good to be true, right? I mean, why wasn't everyone in on this game if it was so strong and steady? We deluded ourselves into thinking we were all smarter than the others. When it came to the investment game, we had it figured. And what was the game anyway? The way it was vaguely described to us was that the "New York people" had a system whereby they placed a series of instant trades - at once with futures...
...course the call did come, as it always does with such things. It was not an ordinary Ponzi scheme we were all part of; it was the biggest in the history of the world, valued at some $50 billion. Lucky us. Small investors, institutions, hedge funds, global banks, pension funds - all fell victim to usual suspects: a smooth huckster and greed...
...never want to hear the words that come with such a phone call. "We are all wiped out." But they came, and we went numb. We lost, on paper, $1.2 million. My wife's family's combined losses are close to $30 million. We're talking old ladies and men, lawyers, children with Madoff trusts, students in college and an array of others who thought they had the world beat - and they did, at least for a time...
Michael Mills, a veteran health inspector in New York City, helps create a map of the city you won't find in any guidebook: a rat map. That's right, a map of the New York neighborhoods that rodent populations call home...
...would call it one of his greatest wins,” Bajwa said. “It’s very easy to not look at it as a great match, because he made it look so easy. But it wasn’t easy...