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Mike Bloomberg has vowed as a Democratic candidate for president to "strengthen entitlement programs." But when he was mayor of New York City, Bloomberg twice compared Social Security to a "Ponzi scheme."

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Indian companies have a damaging penchant for treating company founders as latter-day maharajahs. This harms both Indian firms and the wider economy

Undue reverence for company founders harms Indian firms

Some founders bilk the firms they run

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Taiwanese police officials said on Friday that they and other Asian authorities had smashed a large multinational swindling operation, arresting nearly 600 people in six Asian nations in a variety of telephone and Internet schemes that bilked tens of thousands of people out of their money.

Oil prices plummeted as traders worried that American drivers were beginning to balk at the price of gasoline.


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Madoff pleaded guilty to charges he ran a massive, decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars and apologized for his actions. The judge ordered jail pending sentencing and revoked bail.

馬多夫對11項指控供認不諱
伯納德•馬多夫週四公開承認﹐自己策劃了規模巨大且持續數十年的龐氏騙局﹐並導致投資者數十億美元資金遭受損失。

Lehman Loses $350 Million, Alleges Fraud
Lehman has sued Japan's Marubeni, saying it was bilked out of $350 million in an alleged fraud involving forged documents.

雷曼兄弟指控日本丸红欺诈

丸红称自己也是前雇员3.52亿美元诈骗案受害者

英国《金融时报》中本美智代(Michiyo Nakamoto)东京报道




Duke Ellington referred to him as “Maharajah of the keyboard.” Count Basie said, “Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I’ve ever heard." The pianist and conductor Andre Previn called Mr. Peterson “the best” there was among jazz pianists.

founder, 創始者

someone who establishes an organization:

She is the founder and managing director of the company.

the Founder 美國開國諸先賢/元勳：華盛頓等人




maharaja
noun [C] (ALSO maharajah) ［n. 【史】（時にM-） マハラージャ ((インドの大公の尊称)).
in the past, the male ruler of an Indian state

BILK
tr.v., bilked, bilk·ing, bilks.

1. 1. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
   2. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
2. To thwart or frustrate: “Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked” (Thomas Carlyle).
3. To elude.

n.

1. One who cheats.
2. Obsolete. A hoax or swindle.

[Perhaps alteration of BALK.]

balk

v., balked, balk·ing, balks. v.intr.

1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump.
2. To refuse obstinately or abruptly: She balked at the very idea of compromise.
3. 1. Sports. To make an incomplete or misleading motion.
   2. Baseball. To make an illegal motion before pitching, allowing one or more base runners to advance one base.

v.tr.

1. To check or thwart by or as if by an obstacle.
2. Archaic. To let go by; miss.

n.

1. A hindrance, check, or defeat.
2. Sports. An incomplete or misleading motion, especially an illegal move made by a baseball pitcher.
3. Games. One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table.
4. 1. An unplowed strip of land.
   2. A ridge between furrows.
5. A wooden beam or rafter.

[Middle English balken, to plow up in ridges, from balk, ridge, from Old English balca and from Old Norse balkr, beam.]

balker balk'er n.

Ponzi scheme 龐氏騙局是指投資公司用新投資者的錢支付現有投資者的循環騙局。