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Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World

Daniel Davies

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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D^2, in characteristically excellent form, going through a taxonomy of different sorts of business fraud, starting with the comparatively simple "buy a lot of stuff on credit and then not pay", on up to very abstract, but very real, offenses against markets as a whole.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.