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"Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region’s online scam industry. Revealed are the appalling working conditions — akin to modern slavery — in the hundreds of prisonlike compounds that have mushroomed throughout multiple countries. The result is a shocking exposé of victims forced to be perpetrators, a tragic modern tale."]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:distributed_systems"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/why-fake-miniatures-depicting-islamic-science-are-everywhere">
    <title>Why fake miniatures depicting Islamic science are everywhere | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-18T04:07:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/why-fake-miniatures-depicting-islamic-science-are-everywhere</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>historical_myths fraud uses_of_the_past islamic_civilization history_of_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:22fbc3182e52/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:uses_of_the_past"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:islamic_civilization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_science"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html">
    <title>The Slander Industry - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-26T17:35:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life fraud have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3623acc7bbdf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/03/krug-carrillo-dolezal-social-munchausen-syndrome/618289/">
    <title>Krug, Carrillo, Dolezal: Social Munchausen Syndrome - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-20T22:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/03/krug-carrillo-dolezal-social-munchausen-syndrome/618289/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>racism identity_group_formation moral_psychology presentation_of_self rhetorical_self-fashioning re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator fraud have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:337f96aeddca/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:presentation_of_self"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://retractionwatch.com/2021/01/26/researcher-fired-for-including-an-author-not-involved-in-a-paper-says-colleague/">
    <title>“The whole thing is yucky:” When you’re surprised to find yourself as an author on a paper – Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-02T08:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://retractionwatch.com/2021/01/26/researcher-fired-for-including-an-author-not-involved-in-a-paper-says-colleague/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ce38116fd293/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353">
    <title>Nandini Jammi on Twitter: &quot;The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend. And all bc Sleeping Giants kept bugging them to block their ads on Breitbart. https://t.co/S</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-10T16:54:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>advertising fraud twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts track_down_references to_teach:data-mining via:???</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:304aa9567d15/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:???"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cuban-american-author-hg-carrillo-who-explored-themes-of-cultural-alienation-died-after-contracting-covid-19/2020/05/21/35478894-97d8-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html#click=https://t.co/fhT3SB6Tqk">
    <title>Cuban-American author H.G. Carrillo dead of complications from covid-19 - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T16:10:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cuban-american-author-hg-carrillo-who-explored-themes-of-cultural-alienation-died-after-contracting-covid-19/2020/05/21/35478894-97d8-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html#click=https://t.co/fhT3SB6Tqk</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Editor’s note: After initial publication of this article on May 22, The Washington Post learned that key elements of H.G. Carrillo’s biography had been fabricated over many years, by Carrillo himself. The story below has been revised to include the correct background, how The Post learned of the fabrication and some reaction to it."]]></description>
<dc:subject>rhetorical_self-fashioning identity_group_formation fraud literary_hoaxes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f65045d8443e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00335-7">
    <title>Highly cited researcher banned from journal board for citation abuse</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-09T16:24:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00335-7</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bibliometry fraud science_as_a_social_process what_gets_measured_gets_managed biophysics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4f7456ee19db/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bibliometry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_as_a_social_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:what_gets_measured_gets_managed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:biophysics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb">
    <title>I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb - VICE</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-02T21:29:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0e10000048fa/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11299">
    <title>[1910.11299] Fraud Detection in Networks: State-of-the-art</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-25T14:40:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11299</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Financial fraud detection represents the challenge of finding anomalies in networks of financial transactions. In general, the anomaly detection (AD) is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. The fraudulent behaviour in money laundering may manifest itself through unusual patterns in financial transaction networks. In such networks, nodes represents customers and the edges are transactions: a directed edge between two nodes illustrates that there is a money transfer in the respective direction, where the weight on the edge is the transferred amount. In this paper we present a survey on the fundamental anomaly detection techniques and then present briefly the relevant literature in connection with fraud detection context."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB fraud classifiers network_data_analysis relational_learning statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b2f24aaae87e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://retractionwatch.com/2019/10/07/do-we-have-the-will-to-do-anything-about-it-james-heathers-reflects-on-the-eysenck-case/">
    <title>“Do we have the will to do anything about it?” James Heathers reflects on the Eysenck case – Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-09T16:23:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://retractionwatch.com/2019/10/07/do-we-have-the-will-to-do-anything-about-it-james-heathers-reflects-on-the-eysenck-case/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud psychology track_down_references iq eysenck.hans_j.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7091bccda2e3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:iq"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:eysenck.hans_j."/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77ffp">
    <title>Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-23T02:13:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77ffp</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB to_read downloaded grafton.anthony fraud literary_criticism literary_history history_of_ideas renaissance_history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3b41e59efa94/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:downloaded"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:grafton.anthony"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:literary_criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:literary_history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_ideas"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1">
    <title>Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans | bioRxiv</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-07T16:15:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, which has more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by low per capita incomes and a short life expectancy. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records."

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<dc:subject>to:NB data_collection demography bureaucracy statistics to_teach via:kjhealy have_read fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:99d8b706d217/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_collection"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:demography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bureaucracy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bhooi/thesis/thesis.pdf">
    <title>Anomaly Detection in Graphs and Time Series: Algorithms and Applications</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-23T13:41:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bhooi/thesis/thesis.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How can we detect fraudsters in large online review networks, or power grid
failures using electrical sensor data? With the increasing availablility of web-scale graphs and high-frequency sensor data, anomaly detection in massive datasets has seen growing focus. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter contain up to billions of users. Similarly, large scale sensor data includes networks of traffic speed detectors that span freeway systems in major metropolitan areas, networks of voltage sensors spanning the electrical power grid, as well as numerous types of industrial, weather and environmental sensors. These datasets have created an increasing need for scalable algorithms that can automatically analyze this data andflag users or events which are anomalous or of interest.
"This thesis focuses on these problems, by developing scalable, principled algorithms that detect unusual behavior or events. We focus on the use of connectivity and temporal information, which allow us to detect anomalies in large graphs such as social networks, as well as for sensor datasets such as trac data, which contain multiple sensors varying over time, that are also arranged on a graph.
"First, we focus on static graphs, in which only connectivity information is present. For example, how can we detect fraudsters in a user-product review graph, or a Twitter follower-followee graph? We rst propose a probabilistic approach that evaluates how surprising a dense subgraph is, while avoiding Erdos-Renyi assumptions of existing methods. We then consider how to detect dense subgraphs in a way that prevents anomalous users from evading detection by manipulating their features. Our approach improves detection accuracy by up to 70% F-measure over comparable baselines, and detects a Twitter subgraph of more than 4000 accounts, a majority of which used follower-buying services.
"Next, we considertime series: for example, how can we detect anomalous events, such as electrical component failures in power grid time series? We develop algorithms for modelling and detecting anomalies in discrete time-series data, such as ratings, where a set of users rate a set of products; and real-valued power grid data, in which we use physics-based circuit models to accurately model and detect anomalies. Then, for mixed categorical, numeric and ordinal data, we propose an online nonparametric anomaly detection approach, that detects anomalies with 61% higher F-measure than related baselines.
"Finally, merging graphs and time series, we consider graphs with sensors. Consider a set of sensors arranged in a graph, each collecting data over time: for example, trac speed sensors, which are arranged on a road network, or voltage sensors on a power grid network. We develop algorithms for detecting anomalous events or large changes happening on a subset of the graph nodes, such as traffic accidents or power line failures. Additionally, we propose algorithms for near-optimally selecting locations for new sensors to be placed on a power grid graph, improving the detection of electrical component failures by 59% or more F-measure."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB have_skimmed hooi.bryan data_mining network_data_analysis time_series anomaly_detection statistics fraud i_knew_him_when</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:691f22853385/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_skimmed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hooi.bryan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_mining"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296">
    <title>Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity, Miller</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-08T21:17:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the “intercultural hoax.”
"In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy’s Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller’s contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this too is a ruse: French universalism can only go so far and do so much. There is plenty of otherness to appropriate. This French and Francophone tradition of imposture has never received the study it deserves. Taking a novel approach to this understudied tradition, Impostors examines hoaxes in both countries, finding similar practices of deception and questions of harm.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted literary_history literary_criticism rhetorical_self-fashioning fraud comparative_sociology america france</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ab8fbe63c1e6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter2">
    <title>She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her? - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-03T14:04:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter2</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to_read crime fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa29726bfd6e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/05/04/pr0nbots2-revenge-of-the-pr0nbots/">
    <title>Pr0nbots2: Revenge Of The Pr0nbots | News from the Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-08T00:19:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/05/04/pr0nbots2-revenge-of-the-pr0nbots/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'd _probably_ not get in trouble if I used this data in an assignment, but perhaps better not to take the chance...]]></description>
<dc:subject>network_data_analysis community_discovery networked_life fraud practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information pr0n</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5019e5f37efe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them">
    <title>Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-28T13:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It doesn't say enough, for my purposes, about _how_ Facebook helps the scammers.  Is it just that the algorithm classifies the ads together, and so engaging with one makes it more likely that it will show you others from that class?  If so, _why_ does the algorithm classify scam ads together?]]></description>
<dc:subject>advertising facebook social_media fraud deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e6b320b6aaea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161410">
    <title>Markets and Manipulation: Time for a Paradigm Shift?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-13T18:40:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161410</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities that impact their decision making and choice in the market place. The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated by unscrupulous agents single-minded about marketing their services and wares. This paper reviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller's Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, alongside other writings in the field, and discusses how this research agenda can be taken forward. The paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for controlling corruption."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics decision-making market_failures_in_everything fraud corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d688fede53e8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-robo-call-moguls-outwitted-the-government-and-completely-wrecked-the-do-not-call-list/2018/01/09/52c769b6-df7a-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html">
    <title>How the robocall industry outwitted the government and wrecked the Do Not Call list - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T17:31:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-robo-call-moguls-outwitted-the-government-and-completely-wrecked-the-do-not-call-list/2018/01/09/52c769b6-df7a-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>regulation market_failures_in_everything our_decrepit_institutions fraud crime have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/fastest-growing-city-america-florida-cape-coral-215724">
    <title>The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist - POLITICO Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T17:18:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/fastest-growing-city-america-florida-cape-coral-215724</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>florida utter_stupidity fraud market_failures_in_everything have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:44c8cc5adeab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Techniques-Complex-Systems-Science-ebook/dp/B01EDLKQZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1463104639&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shalizi">
    <title>Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, eBook - Amazon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-13T02:13:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Techniques-Complex-Systems-Science-ebook/dp/B01EDLKQZU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1463104639&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shalizi</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been plagiarized before, but I've never had someone use my name to charge people $8.99 for something they could read, _with_ the figures, for free (https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0307015).  We'll see if Amazon does anything.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-centered complexity fraud</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:40a37bb89617/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/diploma-mills">
    <title>Diploma Mills</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-01T20:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/diploma-mills</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These online and storefront institutions lure students with promises of fast degrees and "guaranteed" job placement, but what they deliver is often something quite different. In this provocative history of for-profit higher education, historian and educational researcher A. J. Angulo tells the remarkable and often sordid story of these "diploma mills," which target low-income and nontraditional students while scooping up a disproportionate amount of federal student aid.
"Tapping into a little-known history with big implications, Angulo takes readers on a lively journey that begins with the apprenticeship system of colonial America and ends with today’s politically savvy $35 billion multinational for-profit industry. He traces the transformation of nineteenth-century reading and writing schools into "commercial" and "business" colleges, explores the early twentieth century’s move toward professionalization and progressivism, and explains why the GI Bill prompted a surge of new for-profit institutions. He also shows how well-founded concerns about profit-seeking in higher education have evolved over the centuries and argues that financial gaming and maneuvering by these institutions threatens to destabilize the entire federal student aid program.
"This is the first sweeping narrative history to explain why for-profits have mattered to students, taxpayers, lawmakers, and the many others who have viewed higher education as part of the American dream. Diploma Mills speaks to today’s concerns by shedding light on unmistakable conflicts of interest long associated with this scandal-plagued class of colleges and universities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted education academia our_decrepit_institutions market_failures_in_everything fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7c39fa419d9e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2739170">
    <title>The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct by Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-01T02:49:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2739170</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. Roughly 7% of advisers have misconduct records. Prior offenders are five times as likely to engage in new misconduct as the average financial adviser. Firms discipline misconduct: approximately half of financial advisers lose their job after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline: of these advisers, 44% are reemployed in the financial services industry within a year. Reemployment is not costless. Following misconduct, advisers face longer unemployment spells, and move to less reputable firms, with a 10% reduction in compensation. Additionally, firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves. We find similar results for advisers of dissolved firms, in which all advisers are forced to find new employment independent of past misconduct or performance. Firms that persistently engage in misconduct coexist with firms that have clean records. We show that differences in consumer sophistication may be partially responsible for this phenomenon: misconduct is concentrated in firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high incomes. Our findings suggest that some firms "specialize" in misconduct and cater to unsophisticated consumers, while others use their reputation to attract sophisticated consumers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud finance market_failures_in_everything to:NB class_struggles_in_america via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.paperhelp.org/">
    <title>Paper Writing Service You Can Trust. Custom Writing of the Highest Quality Only</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-07T11:47:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.paperhelp.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the department of unclear on the concept: "Write from scratch according to your instructions. Plagiarism free papers, 100% guarantee!"

--- I also like the bits about how customers are learning the arts of time management and delegation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>education academia plagiarism things_that_make_me_want_to_bring_back_oral_exams fraud to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ddeb14ec3f86/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/volkswagen-and-the-era-of-cheating-software.html?smid=tw-share">
    <title>Volkswagen and the Era of Cheating Software - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-30T02:55:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/volkswagen-and-the-era-of-cheating-software.html?smid=tw-share</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud computers regulation internet_of_things design tufekci.zeynep have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:380fcd1d312f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://web.stanford.edu/~dbroock/broockman_kalla_aronow_lg_irregularities.pdf">
    <title>Irregularities in LaCour (2014)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-20T13:26:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://web.stanford.edu/~dbroock/broockman_kalla_aronow_lg_irregularities.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We report a number of irregularities in the replication dataset posted for LaCour and Green (Science, “When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality,” 2014) that jointly suggest the dataset (LaCour 2014) was not collected as described. These irregularities include baseline outcome data that is statistically indistinguishable from a national survey and over-time changes that are unusually small and indistinguishable from perfectly normally distributed noise. Other elements of the dataset are inconsistent with patterns typical in randomized experiments and survey responses and/or inconsistent with the claimed design of the study. A straightforward procedure may generate these anomalies nearly exactly: for both studies reported in the paper, a random sample of the 2012 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project (CCAP) form the baseline data and normally distributed noise are added to simulate follow-up waves."

--- Pretty damning.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud surveys statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2dd527d05d1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/09/29/1984972/bitcon-the-book/">
    <title>BitCon: The book | FT Alphaville</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-10T19:21:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/09/29/1984972/bitcon-the-book/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted track_down_references bitcoin fraud financial_speculation blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2d1cb7747c52/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/05/another-one-bites-the-dust-neo-bee/">
    <title>Five Red Flags that Preceded Neo &amp; Bee's Collapse</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-06T21:10:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/05/another-one-bites-the-dust-neo-bee/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The story is so fantastic that if I made it up, editors would reject my novel because it'd be too unbelievable."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious bitcoin fraud</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e0a87c2b1a2d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/30/3134851/conservatives-food4patriots/">
    <title>The Inside Story Of The Charlatan Who Duped The Nation's Top Conservatives | ThinkProgress</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-02T22:52:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/30/3134851/conservatives-food4patriots/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The 3x mark-up on packaged foods as a route to self-sufficiency is an especially nice touch.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy psychoceramica marketing economics us_politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b5ccb49e7b90/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116919/big-lie-haunts-post-crash-economy">
    <title>The Big Lie That Haunts the Post-Crash Economy | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-13T15:31:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116919/big-lie-haunts-post-crash-economy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud mortgage_crisis financial_crisis_of_2007-- financialization class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:499476d5f8c6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financialization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/skip-tracing-ryan-mullen/">
    <title>The World's Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here's How She Hunts | Threat Level | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-08T03:39:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/skip-tracing-ryan-mullen/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amusing but slight.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life fraud via:auerbach</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0200f6be191f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.peterfrase.com/2013/05/porno-for-pirates/">
    <title>Porno for Pirates :: Peter Frase</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-07T22:16:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.peterfrase.com/2013/05/porno-for-pirates/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As someone who made a certain amount of my reputation by using the Star Trek universe to illustrate the dangers of strong intellectual property law, I feel obligated to comment on the recent court decision against the entity commonly referred to as Prenda Law. The case combines copyright battles, Star Trek, and pornography—if I can slip in a picture of a cute animal, I may be able to construct the Platonic ideal of a popular Internet post."

(No cat picture, unfortunately.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>intellectual_property law fraud pr0n networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b36fbbfeb15e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1243205.ece">
    <title>When Dickens met Dostoevsky | TLS</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T22:34:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1243205.ece</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, one has to wonder whether any of this is in fact true at all.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud academia literary_criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d5333915e372/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/">
    <title>The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism | Rick Perlstein | The Baffler</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-22T00:05:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["it’s not really useful, or possible, to specify a break point where the money game ends and the ideological one begins. They are two facets of the same coin—where the con selling 23-cent miracle cures for heart disease inches inexorably into the one selling miniscule marginal tax rates as the miracle cure for the nation itself. The proof is in the pitches—the come-ons in which the ideological and the transactional share the exact same vocabulary, moral claims, and cast of heroes and villains."

--- A really outstanding piece of writing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy fraud conservatism con-games perlstein.rick moral_depravity evisceration multi-level_marketing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f75432eeb449/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/korean-plant-compound-researcher-faked-email-addresses-so-he-could-review-his-own-studies/">
    <title>South Korean plant compound researcher faked email addresses so he could review his own studies « Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-31T13:07:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/korean-plant-compound-researcher-faked-email-addresses-so-he-could-review-his-own-studies/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What it says on the label; but wow, the shamelessness.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud bad_science peer_review epic_fail via:phnk science_as_a_social_process his_plan_was_sheer_elegance_in_its_simplicity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:33d7a00246c3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2012/02/countrywide-complaint.html">
    <title>Rajiv Sethi: The Countrywide Complaint and the Capitalization of Trust</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-17T16:21:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2012/02/countrywide-complaint.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["distrust of traditional lending institutions such as commercial banks led some borrowers to seek out brokers from their own communities whom they felt they could trust. But these brokers were operating under high-powered incentives to inflate rates and fees and guide borrowers towards subprime products even when they were eligible for cheaper alternatives. The trust that was placed in the brokers allowed them greater flexibility to respond to these incentives and left borrowers worse off than the would have been if they had been more suspicious or better aware of the incentive structures in place.
"Viewed in this manner, the subprime saga has some broader implications. From the point of view of a company operating in multiple local markets with a diverse customer base, the strategy of giving local employees or contractors the discretion to adjust prices can be very profitable. This is especially so if these employees appear trustworthy to their customers, but are not in fact deserving of such trust. As Groucho Marx is reputed to have said: 'The secret of life is honesty and fair-dealing. If you can fake that you've got it made.' For products involving frequent repeat purchases by the same customer, reputation effects and competition can limit the degree of price discrimination. But the purchase of a home is an infrequent transaction for most people, and the complexity of the loan product precludes easy comparison with alternatives on offer. Trust then becomes a key determinant of pricing and transaction volume, especially when strong and hidden incentives for the betrayal of trust are in place.
"Betrayal also leads to the erosion of trust over time. It could be argued that trust is one of our most valuable public goods, substantially lowering the costs of transacting. In the complete absence of trust, the resources that would need to be devoted to monitoring would be prohibitive and many organizations and markets would simply not exist. Trust also comes naturally to most of us, based on simple cues such as those revealed in Reid's interviews. High-powered incentives to secure and then betray such trust are therefore costly not just to the immediate victim, but also to the community at large. This may be one of the less visible consequences of the subprime crisis."]]></description>
<dc:subject>mortgage_crisis fraud trust social_networks economics market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:34dc1844b0d8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/michael-hudson-on-ge-capital-wmc-and-fraud/">
    <title>Michael Hudson on GE Capital, WMC and Fraud | Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-21T23:34:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/michael-hudson-on-ge-capital-wmc-and-fraud/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud mortgage_crisis financial_crisis_of_2007-- regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6b45b710c479/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html">
    <title>interfluidity » Why is finance so complex?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-30T23:50:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm dubious.  When I deposit my money in the bank, I (in effect) take a very small position in every loan it makes.  _I_ lack the time and resources to evaluate investment opportunities, and the transaction costs of diversification are prohibitive for me, but not for the bank.  Similarly in normal times the bank really doesn't have to turn over the cash to all but a very small fraction of deposits.  This is not fraud; it is averaging.
Of course this sort of averaging is not that complicated and so lots of firms can do it, which drives down the profits, so banks have a huge incentive to come up with complicated things that no one else can do, which probably does contribute to fraud.  But I don't think the _whole_ of finance is based on fraud.]]></description>
<dc:subject>finance economics fraud via:erindanielson to:blog</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f5eff9d8904/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2011_04_03.html#011204">
    <title>Unfogged: More Conservatism I Can't Believe In</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-08T13:39:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2011_04_03.html#011204</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For the kind of profession where a practitioner is handling money or valuables for not-necessarily-sophisticated customers, like bail-bondsmen, insurance brokers, real estate brokers or even the auctioneers he mentions, there's a huge potential for fraud that realistically can't be addressed by generic law enforcement, even if the money that's now spent on licensing were redirected to prosecutors. ..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics economic_policy market_failures_in_everything fraud yglesias.matthew lizardbreath regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:560681ba7737/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/foreclosure-fraud-for-dummies-1-the-chains-and-the-stakes/">
    <title>Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 1: The Chains and the Stakes « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-10T00:09:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/foreclosure-fraud-for-dummies-1-the-chains-and-the-stakes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unintended consequences of hubristic social engineering by ideologues (with finance degrees), vol. CCXIV.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud mortgage_crisis securitization financial_crisis_of_2007-- class_struggles_in_america market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b51ee33dc949/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-cfpb-story-geithner-preemption/">
    <title>A CFPB Story, Geithner, Preemption « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-26T23:23:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-cfpb-story-geithner-preemption/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Take Household Finance in the early 2000s. Their aggressive lending practices where people would learn after the fact that they were mislead to how much their total monthly payments were ... led to successful settlements in Colorado, Georgia as well as a $484 million in fines joint settlement with a group of attorney generals, the largest consumer fraud settlement in U.S. history. ... That’s a lot of money, until you divide it among the amount of households that were ripped off. Even after legal fees, its hard to image it wasn’t a profitable experience.  So Household Finance has to pay the largest consumer fraud fines in history. I bet you think that the investment community and elite financial institutions wouldn’t look twice at it. ... One month later Household was acquired by HSBC, the London financial giant, for $16.4 billion.... Instead of driving out fraud, the market realized, correctly, that there is a ton of money in consumer fraud, and it rewards it handsomely. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud mortgage_crisis market_failures_in_everything track_down_references whats_gone_wrong_with_america</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3897eb1d4e30/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/capitalism-in-the-dock-as-kerviel-goes-on-trial-1994133.html">
    <title>Capitalism in the dock as Kerviel goes on trial - Europe, World - The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-08T13:51:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/capitalism-in-the-dock-as-kerviel-goes-on-trial-1994133.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It says something that a man who was taking these insane risks, and engaging in massive deceptions to take these risks, is admitted even by the prosecutors to have NOT personally profited from it (beyond the usual bonuses, presumably), but rather left all the money with the organization.  Now THAT is social control.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:bruces financial_crisis_of_2007-- financial_speculation crime fraud to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9ca38d0c9c4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2010/05/reputational-capital-and-incentives-in.html">
    <title>Rajiv Sethi: Reputational Capital and Incentives in Organizations</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-02T19:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2010/05/reputational-capital-and-incentives-in.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Understatement of the week (at least): "If the preservation of its reputation for serving the interests of its clients was a major organizational goal for Goldman, then something clearly went terribly wrong."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>reputation evolution_of_cooperation fraud looting goldman_sachs institutions organizations biological_basis_of_morality sethi.rajiv</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f7ba1461f87d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:evolution_of_cooperation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:looting"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:sethi.rajiv"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=[3351,136554]?RS_show_page=0">
    <title>Taibbi: The Feds vs. Goldman -- RollingStone.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-01T17:32:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=[3351,136554]?RS_show_page=0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud corporations whats_gone_wrong_with_america decline_of_american_character financial_crisis_of_2007-- financial_markets goldman_sachs taibbi.matt</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6622e7aca42d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corporations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:decline_of_american_character"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:goldman_sachs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:taibbi.matt"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100517/hayes">
    <title>Goners</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-30T17:06:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100517/hayes</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is good to hang a banker from the lamp-posts in lower Manhattan from time to time, to encourage the others.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>ill_be_gone_youll_be_gone financial_speculation mortgage_crisis fraud banking finance hayes.chris</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:34634c52ccb6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ill_be_gone_youll_be_gone"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hayes.chris"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704479704575061481908470618-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMjExNDIyWj.html">
    <title>Some Companies Afflicted by 'Quadrophobia' - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-13T18:52:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704479704575061481908470618-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMjExNDIyWj.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ahhh, the unquestionable reliability of numbers!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data fraud financial_markets to_teach:data-mining to_teach:undergrad-research juking_the_stats</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dc19d1a36b42/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:undergrad-research"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:juking_the_stats"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/print">
    <title>Wall Street's Naked Swindle : Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-22T13:36:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>financial_crisis_of_2007-- fraud financial_speculation taibbi.matt</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a52bff49777a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:taibbi.matt"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blabes.html">
    <title>Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, University of Texas Press</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-26T13:57:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blabes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted finance banking fraud corruption savings_and_loan_disaster</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bdb9395f5425/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:books:noted"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:savings_and_loan_disaster"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/enron_email.html">
    <title>UC Berkeley Enron Email Analysis</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-21T19:23:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/enron_email.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With hand-labeled categories.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>enron email text_mining information_retrieval fraud to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:460198ae5990/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:enron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:email"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:information_retrieval"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780979309304-1">
    <title>Powell's Books - Art of Darkness: Ingenious Performances by Undercover Operators, Con Men, and Others by Sara K. Schneider</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-25T20:52:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780979309304-1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted fraud presentation_of_self rhetorical_self-fashioning police con-games</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5c21d886d2a6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:books:noted"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:presentation_of_self"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rhetorical_self-fashioning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:con-games"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/">
    <title>Enron Email Dataset</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-28T17:40:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>enron fraud corporations networks network_data_analysis criminal_conspiracies data_sets</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de3757b6582e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:enron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:network_data_analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:criminal_conspiracies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_sets"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.analyticpolitics.org/2009/06/devil-is-in-statistics.html">
    <title>The Devil is in Statistics</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-27T20:03:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.analyticpolitics.org/2009/06/devil-is-in-statistics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My understanding of statistics is limited": no shit.  Tagged "to teach" as an example of a generic, content-free way of deriding any statistical analysis whatsoever whose conclusions one dislikes.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics utter_stupidity iran fraud to_teach via:abbas-raza</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:41501c909c92/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:iran"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:abbas-raza"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/business/06surgeon.html?em">
    <title>Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor’s Colleagues - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-07T17:03:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/business/06surgeon.html?em</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This really looks very bad.  (And: a journal refusing to share referee reports with someone listed on the MS. as an author? WTF?)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia fraud corruption medicine why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system us-iraq_war</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b38f2dee055f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:medicine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us-iraq_war"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/03/ugly-loans.html">
    <title>Obsidian Wings: Ugly Loans</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-28T14:20:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/03/ugly-loans.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud mortgage_crisis class_struggles_in_america moral_responsibility hilzoy tanta finance our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:85bf110e7741/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_responsibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hilzoy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:tanta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EED61F30F936A15751C0A9679C8B63&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-16T22:18:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EED61F30F936A15751C0A9679C8B63&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh yes, an oldie-but-goodie: how to make $800k as a stock-tout in high school.  Whatever became of young Mr. Lebed?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial_speculation market_bubbles fraud lewis.michael via:slaniel our_decrepit_institutions regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:39eed746949a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_bubbles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lewis.michael"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:slaniel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:regulation"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2534564">
    <title>Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (Akerlof and Romer, 1993)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-11T16:16:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/pss/2534564</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Published version, via JSTOR.  (The discussants seem clueless.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud corporate_governance financial_markets financial_speculation institutions mechanism_design moral_hazard corruption economics akerlof.george romer.paul have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2d5b1fb298a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corporate_governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mechanism_design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_hazard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:akerlof.george"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:romer.paul"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html">
    <title>Nigerian Accused in Scheme to Swindle Citibank - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-01T17:17:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21scam.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[in which Citibank gets taken for $27 million.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming fraud citibank banking via:making_light</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9d3d8e7298ff/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:malicious"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:citibank"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:making_light"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09057/951834-85.stm">
    <title>Pitt, CMU money managers arrested in fraud</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-27T20:50:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09057/951834-85.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ooopsy.  (Pres. Cohon's letter to CMU about this sounded genuinely angry.)  But - $80k collectible teddy bears?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud financial_crisis_of_2007-- carnegie_mellon</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cd374f16fd19/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:carnegie_mellon"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/how_theresa_hatt_caused_the_financial_crisis.php">
    <title>TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | How Theresa Hatt Caused The Financial Crisis</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-07T12:59:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/how_theresa_hatt_caused_the_financial_crisis.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud corruption banking our_decrepit_institutions bank_of_america credit_cards via:making_light</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9672cd2c7d26/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>The confession of Christopher J. Warren</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T03:52:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.triduanum.com/memo.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The confession of his own fraud is interesting.  The core proposal (underneath the failure to write clearly) is that selectively prosecuting frauds after they happen is less effective than a regulatory compliance regime that makes fraud hard to commit in the first place.  This is fair enough, but (as Tanta used to say), there is no way to actually verify the claims in mortgage applications & c. _quickly_.  Requiring it would lead to massive changes in an industry which has rebuilt itself around speedy securitization.  This may or may not be a bad thing.
]]></description>
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