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Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme Really Wasn't That Bad - How Money Works Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 Bernie Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, which at it’s height had an apparent 65 billion dollars in assets under management made up of investments by everybody from wall street billionaires to pension funds. This all came crashing down in December of 2008, as the fraudulent businessman was arrested and subsequently charged to face over 100 years in prison, a sentence that he served up until his death last month. But here is the thing, Bernie's fraud, was… not…that… bad… In fact there is arguably more damaging behaviors taking place in the markets day in and day out today by some of the most revered businessmen in the world. To understand this, it’s time to learn how money works by defending the indefensible and really understanding how Bernie Madoff ran his business. So the basic function of a Ponzi scheme is that a legitimate looking operation is set up to attract investors looking to make a nice healthy return. Now this operation could theoretically purport to do anything…. Shipping, mining, manufacturing, but more often than not it is investing. Why investing? Because it is the most discrete… you see you will never actually perform any of the tasks that you claim you will to the investors and an investment firm doing nothing looks pretty much identical to an investment firm doing a lot, at least from the outside. #BernieDidNothingWrong #Finance #HowMoneyWorks Follow to learn How Money Works. Find How Money Works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks Disclaimer: This podcast is an independently produced audio adaptation of content originally created by How Money Works. It was developed by a fan who values the channel’s clear and engaging approach to financial education, with the goal of making that knowledge more accessible in a hands-free, audio format. This is not an official production of How Money Works, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the channel. All rights to the original video content remain with How Money Works. For any concerns, inquiries, or content-related requests, please feel free to reach out. - ----------------------------------- --- Keywords: hedge funds, money management, financial education, stock market, wealth building, economics explained, inflation explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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jakson How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works | How Money Works kansikuva

How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works | How Money Works

How American Generals Are Being Paid Millions To Serve Foreign Governments - How Money Works Upgrade the way you learn with Brilliant! To get started for FREE go to http://www.brilliant.org/howmoneyworks Sign up for my newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 Washington Post Investigation (A Must Read For More Details) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/veterans-us-foreign-jobs-saudi-arabia/ Let’s say you devote your life to military service. You enrol in officer training and work up the ranks until one day you are a general with combat experience in whichever country the States decided had too much oil. American Generals, and Admirals make are O-10 level employees and make a base salary of $203,000 a year, with generous benefits and bonuses for deployment. That’s good money to most people, especially when it continues as a lifetime military pension of $180,000, every single year, for doing nothing, once you have put in your twenty years of service. Service men and women EARN every last cent of this money and people who have dedicated their lives to serving in our armed forces should be looked after, the system is much better at looking after the top brass than the common soldier, but that’s besides the point. I could never do this job and I respect anybody that can, at least I did until the world started learning about what they do after their career comes to an end (or just get’s started depending on how you look at it) The retirement benefits of a military general should be good enough for anybody to live of off, but some don’t see it this way. Some think that Generals are basically chief executives of large organisations with tens of thousands of employees, handling billions of dollars, and working on the most challenging projects in the world. When you put it like that, the public service pay scale starts to look a bit mediocre… Leaders in the private sector are making millions of dollars a year for the same level of work and they don’t spend their time in active warzones. So to set things right, high level military leaders have taken a page out of the investment banking interns playbook. It’s not about the money they are making right now, it’s about the job they CAN get once they have padded out their resume a bit. So it’s time to learn how money works to find out how America’s top military leadership are using their careers to score obscenely lucrative contracts with some not so friendly governments. ----- #howmoneyworks #retirementplanning #military Edited By: Andrew Gonzales Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Select Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images For sponsorship inquiries, please contact sponsors@worksmedia.group Follow to learn How Money Works. Find How Money Works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks Disclaimer: This podcast is an independently produced audio adaptation of content originally created by How Money Works. It was developed by a fan who values the channel’s clear and engaging approach to financial education, with the goal of making that knowledge more accessible in a hands-free, audio format. This is not an official production of How Money Works, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the channel. All rights to the original video content remain with How Money Works. For any concerns, inquiries, or content-related requests, please feel free to reach out. - --------------- ---- Keywords: mortgage crisis, business analysis, money management, economy podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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jakson nOboDy wAnTs tO HaVe kIdS AnyMore | How Money Works kansikuva

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