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The Madoff Scandal

It seems that once one thing goes bad in the U.S. economy, all the shell games, cons and frauds that propped up the U.S. financial system begin to collapse. (Now there's something to give you pause - a financial system based on fraud, cons and shell games. That's what you get from putting those free enterprise types in charge, and then not paying enough attention to what they're doing...)