Readers here know of my fascination for the various bearer bond scandals that began to break in recent years, beginning with the seizure of some $134,000,000,000 in allegedly counterfeit bearer bonds beginning with the Japanese Bearer Bond Scandal in Italy in 2009. Well, in case you haven't heard (funny how the media over here isn't reporting on these stories since the Japanese one, isn't i1!?), there has been yet another such story emerging, as recently as January of this year, as reported by Bloomberg here, and which I blogged about last January. But it requires a closer look: No One … [Read more...]