It’s been one of those weeks again where I just don’t know which story to discuss, so I wind up trying to discuss them all.

It would be great if banks had a duty not to participate in fraud. But that would be an entirely different world, now wouldn’t it?

A variety of links to articles/interviews/speeches on current topics that may be of interest.

Chasing Madoff’s protagonist, Harry Markopolos doesn’t call himself a hero. He just says he’s a citizen “doing what your supposed to do.”

For Markopolos, that meant spending over a decade trying to get anyone and everyone to listen to his analysis of Bernie Madoff’s funds and to look at the evidence that Madoff was a fraud. Luckily, he had a trio of friends –including financial reporter Michael Ocrant who wrote the first article exposing Madoff years before the scandal broke– helping him investigate. But not even Ocrant’s story, which led to a follow-up article in Barrons was enough to get the SEC to sit up and take notice.