On Akamai and madoffsearch.com
This is a good article extolling the virtues of Akamai far more articulately than I can. It's a solid internet technology company that I do recommend highly.
There is a new website called
where you can enter any name you like to search for victims of Madoff. Looking through the original list, alphabetized by first name, it is obvious that many investors gave money to CPA companies to invest. The rumor now is that hedge funds are looking at these investors, the kind of investors who want to give their money to others to invest.
Building up financial knowledge and investing some if not all your money yourself is the right thing to do.
But many big investment advisors, such as
and
Charles Nenner here on CNBC and Bloomberg
,are saying that now is exactly the time to invest for the long term while prices are so low.
Charles Nenner
Some market experts say the low is going to last half a year, and others say twenty years. No one knows for sure; they're all making (hopefully) educated guesses. So try to work on each moment being perfect, while keeping some money to use in the future.
"Don't invest what you can't afford to lose" is an old phrase. But then again, "invest for the long-term" is another.