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As an attorney,
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Em
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I mostly represent the
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infamous 1%.
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But if you ask me where my
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they're with the ninety -nine.
Have you heard about the
Ibbotson Curve?
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This researcher at Yale, I think,
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plotted the rates of return
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of various investments.
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And at the end of a very long time,
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thus proving that equities will
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always continue to rise.
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Or could it just be coincidence
that you're in the amazing centuries
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of American power?
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And equities did well.
My clients are called net winners
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Because they withdrew more
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than they put into their Madoff accounts
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And now the court -appointed trustee
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Irving Picard is suing them
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Clawing back for the
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difference in the amounts
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But if the SEC didn't stop
Bernie Madoff
Even though they had all the information
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What about my science?
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How should they have known?
Now, as for Bernie Madoff,
you really gotta wonder,
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what was he thinking,
what was that pathology there?
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I think he's a grade -A jackass,
a grade -A jackass.
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And very few people knew he
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was just making shit up.
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Oh, very few people knew he
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was just making shit up.
The basic dynamics of investment
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are fraudulent in many ways.
It's a fallacy
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that humans can pick stocks
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better than randomness.
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There's this coin -flipping experiment.
Say you have a hundred people
and you give them all quarters.
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And you say you'll eliminate
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them if they flip tails.
After one flip,
you're down to 50 people.
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After seven or eight flips,
you're down to maybe one guy
who's flipped heads every single time.
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Now, in the financial world,
he'd be lauded as a stock
-picking genius,
he'd be making top dollar
managing a hedge fund somewhere,
when in actuality,
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he's just really fucking lucky.
Now do I own equities?
Sure.
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But do I have this touching faith
they'll do better in the long run?
No.
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