Why Jim Chanos Called this the “Golden Age of Fraud” As Zeke Faux Notes Crypto Has “Democratized Scamming” – Morningstar 2024 Conference

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Golden Age of Fraud

Whenever a major financial fraud is uncovered, a wide range of different types of people have usually lost a lot — either their life savings or millions or even billions of dollars. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but there's no denying that analyzing fraud afterward can provide some important lessons.

At the Morningstar Investment Conference on Wednesday, Zeke Faux of Bloomberg and Bethany McLean of Vanity Fair jointed Todd Trubey of Morningstar to discuss the 21st century's greatest financial frauds. Among the many topics that came up was a discussion of why the current environment is...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.