Are we experiencing the calm before the storm?

[Narz]

still, the 40s to 2008 hardly is a consistent period, not even in very limited geographical areas.

It's consistent in that access to fossil fuel resources have increased almost everywhere fairly constantly.

 

[G-Max]

The SEC itself admits that it dismissed claims against Madeoff without proper investigation for 16 years before his ponzi fell apart. http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2009/oig-509.pdf

Can you link to something other than a 500-page pdf? It'll take forever for me to download and comb through it.

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/15/AR2008121502971.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/b...rkers-in-mistakes-related-to-madoff.html?_r=1