Bernard Bolzano

Mega-star music producer Scott Storch filed for bankruptcy yesterday, officially claiming a meager $3,600 in assets and $100 in cash. In 2010 he was worth $70 million. Storch's fortune came from producing blockbuster hits for artists like Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake, but he has allegedly blown it all on cars and cocaine. In 2010, Storch counted a total of 13 cars in the garage of his Miami mansion, including a $600,000 Mercedes SLR and a $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron. He…

Social Attitude of the Investment Industry after Bernie Madoff Bernie Madoff could be described as an ethical egotist, one who is heavily involved in an organization that does nothing but take advantage of others for personal gain (Bethel, 2015). As for his co-offenders, their personal values were more from an economic value orientation because they deemed his behavior as ethical and acceptable based upon their own financial gain (Bethel, 2015). Even today, Madoff continues to try to justify…

I had said that the minimum or the max would have been okay, yet I wanted to max them out. I told Ralph that the torture for the e-s will be so severe that I Am fine with the minimum even, however. Ralph did not really understand what all I meant at the time, yet he had to listen to things for a long time. He also discussed such matters and had to weigh several things just like anyone who is a sane judge would have to do if they were in such a circumstance. Heaven had joked at one point and…

The ethical issues involved in the Madoff case were moral philosophy and value. The moral philosophy that Bernie Madoff portrayed completely defies the moral compass that most people use. Most people rely on their instinctive nature of honesty and trustworthiness. Bernie Madoff claims that he and his sons built a great investment firm to which there was no intention of unethical behavior. His unethical behavior got out of control and he didn’t know how to stop. The facts of the case prove…

On an April day in 2000, throughout the ‘booming’ times of a market optimistic community when the culture was boiling over with money and the corporations had seemed more vital as an asset and more influential than the governments. Eric Michael Packer, a billionaire manager at the age of 28, had emerged from his luxurious penthouse an settled into his personally advanced customized white stretch limousine. That day, he was a man with two distinctively different missions: to pursue a bet against…

The film vertigo which was released in 1958 which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is about a detective which has a fear of heights which is portrayed in the opening credits as the spinning and the spiral’s symbolises the detectives fear of heights as the detective suffers from an illness which is called ‘vertigo’. This is portrayed through the opening credits as the spiral’s convey the detectives emotions in the film through the opening credits we know what type of genre the film will…

Bernard Ebbers actions indicated his leadership ability because his colleagues, as well as members of the community he served, displayed trust in, and admiration of, him. Although on the surface level, Ebbers portrayed himself as a moral and ethical human being by giving back to his community and living modestly, behind the scenes, in the realm of WorldCom and the telecommunications industry, Ebbers was so obsessed with money, revenue, and power, that his ethics and morals curved to display…

Moving along with the documentary, they begin to talk about the operation on the 19th floor which as known as the lipstick building. This was very interesting because no one would suspect anything from a lipstick company. That was very genius of Madoff to do. Inside the building there were 20 to 30-year-old working making millions of dollars a year. Madoff “company” was run by Madoff family members like his two sons and brother. Where the actual fraud was taking place was in the 17th floor by…

based on, information on the role of women in 1960s China, and information on the opera Madama Butterfly would be provided to them. The characters Rene Gallimard (Hwang, pg. 1672 line 1) and Song Liling (Hwang, pg. 1679 line 4) are based loosely off Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, respectively, and their relationship in the 1960s followed by the discovery of Shi Pei Pu’s deception and then the resulting case of espionage that they were convicted for by the French Government. Also, while the…

Bernard Madoff was blamed for extortion and formation of a Ponzi plan which prompt a $65 billion venture misfortune for several investors across the world. He understood that Wall Street was the best riches creation engine the people had ever known. Madoff was the first one to perceive that computer technology will give an intend to democratize Wall Street by securing a framework that made securities exchanging substantially more productive and much less expensive. Examining the instance of…