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...years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as a banker during the gold rush (he also made millions as an indigo trader and a sometimes shady profiteer in Russia during the Crimean War). But the fire occurred while Schliemann was out of town, and a month earlier than the report said...
EAST GERMAN SPY TRADER GUILTY...
GUILTY PLEA ENTERED. By NICHOLAS LEESON, 28, former futures trader whose billion dollar losses brought down Barings investment bank; to fraud and forgery with the intention to commit fraud; in Singapore. The sentence: 6 1/2 years in prison: a Singaporean prison...
MICHAEL LEWIS, THE FINANCIAL COLUMNIST FOR THE NEW YORK Times Magazine, has figured out that by tweaking the rich, eventually you can become one of them. He tweaked the bond traders in his bestseller, Liar's Poker, and profited like a bond trader from the book sales. In his latest column he tweaks Steve Forbes, the presidential candidate who owns Forbes magazine, for "leading the charge to eliminate capital-gains taxes...
...Alan Greenspan warned that the U.S. would strictly monitor foreign banks in the wake of the Daiwa and Barings bank scandals. The Fed expelled Daiwa from the United States last month for covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses, while Britain's Barings collapsed amid losses by a single trader. Greenspan told a House Banking subcommittee exploring U.S. regulators' failure to detect the Daiwa losses that stronger internal controls are needed in a complex global banking system in which such internal failures can quickly cause wider financial havoc. "Whenever something like the Daiwa scandal occurs, congressional leaders are called...