One of the things that was striking about Bernie Madoff was that he didn’t want investors’ money. “People would try to lobby him to get him to take their investment money,” Diana Henriques says. Henriques has studied Madoff’s career and she wrote The Wizard of Lies about Madoff and how he won people’s trust. In the podcast which accompanies this piece, she talks in detail about what it is in human nature that leads us to trust and why the alternative – paranoia – is not the solution. She explains her own encounters with Madoff and how, even when he…

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