Word: foreigners
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...Stanford's alleged crime, seven new hedge-fund or Ponzi scams have been busted since Jan. 1, totaling some $814 million lost by more than 2,100 investors, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This does not include financial transgressions such as penny-stock swindles, insider trading, foreign bribery or general market manipulation...
Last week, Obie uncovered two Ponzis in the $30 million range. Once considered a good size, the amount now barely raises an eyebrow. The CFTC, a sister agency to the SEC, handles commodities, futures and foreign-exchange regulation and fraud. A Ponzi is a fraud in which money from new investors is used to pay off previous investors...
...said Obie in a prepared statement. When asked why the Ponzi surge is so great now, Obie said, "What you're seeing is the collapse of Ponzi funds in hard economic times - but I'm afraid as times get tougher, we're going to see new fraud develop, especially foreign-currency fraud...
...company would not necessarily have to care about global warming for carbon labels to make sense. Such labels will draw attention to the issue of carbon emissions and spur national efforts to discover alternative energy sources. With the price of fuel high and the future uncertain, reducing dependence on foreign energy can only be a good thing...
...Modern conflicts with sophisticated international involvements—combined with the bitter experiences faced by countries like Sri Lanka during the colonial past—often lead such governments to take extreme precautions to ensure no covert foreign force creeps into their internal politics again. This was evident in Sri Lanka when the government ordered all non-governmental organizations except the International Committee of Red Cross to leave rebel-held areas in September 2008. This action was taken after Sri Lankan authorities learned that several NGOs had wittingly or unwittingly given material aid to the Tamil Tigers...