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Week 6, Fadhil's Blog #3 - Bernard Madoff A Legendary Ponzi Scheme Mastermind.

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Having a great weekend with my friends then I remember about making a weekly blog which kinda ruin everything but yeah.... alright. Anyways, back with Fadhil's weekly blog, this week I am going to talk about a legendary "financial criminal" Bernard Madoff. By the way, do you remember your parents telling you not to take something from strangers because it can be dangerous for us and we need to be smarter? It is obvious tho if someone gave you free or offer you at really cheap price of something that we need, it is hard for us to reject right? However, for the smarter ones, they tends to ask to the person that give them free stuffs about "what do they want?" and "is there anything they wanted from us that is bad for us?". Well this thing is related to  the world of finance and investment, we have to be the smart ones, that could not be persuaded easily by others with negative intention.   A bit of Madoff background, he is... 79 years old, like wow ...

Week 5, Fadhil's Blog #2 - Documentaries: Olympus FRAUD!?

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In this week famous Fadhil's blog, we goin' to talk about the popular Japanese photography company Olympus, which in 2011 it was very famous due to its scandal of fraud that the makes the company loss around $1.7 Billion. Amazing isn't it? That much loss of money that goes into individuals pocket, they must be very rich now I must say. The main question about this case is that,   Does telling the truth worth the risk to take? Yes, definitely! But for several groups of individuals this is probably a not sure question. But it is obvious that nowadays telling the truth is a hard thing to do and not many people wants to take the risk. However, in my opinion, telling the truth is still the right thing to do and it will wroth the risk. Although, we need to take the risk more carefully and full of awareness like playing a chess since we know that others are also playing mind games, thus we need to be careful of people around us.   In today's business world, I only can see p...