Another tragic sign of the times...
 

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Thierry de la Villehuchet, a hedge fund adviser and investor whose firm said he lost $1.5 billion investing with Wall Street adviser Bernard Madoff, was found dead in his office in an apparent suicide Tuesday, police said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/23/...ide/index.html

Every recession, and the great depression saw these same things. Its not abnormal.

-S

Keen observation. :roll:

There is more to this story. It looks more to me then just being upset over losing 1.5 billion.

I agree, usually these things are the "last straw".

Losing everything a person has is usually not only the last, but the only straw. The real tragedy of this whole exercise is that many people who have a full life ahead of them were duped by a 70 year old con artist.... as Gordan Gecko said in Wallstreet
"Greed is good!"

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. :D

Wow, we agree...

So is quite a lot of what makes up our "economy".

PD

Yes the world is taking notice there isn't much behind all those pretty numbers in the computers.

Holy rice pattys Batman, I may agree with thee anti christ on something....

I would say it was a last straw because this fellow was in deeper with the scheme to bilk money from the investors. In short, he was eventually going to the pokey. So, instead of waiting for a long drawn out investigation with many things he did coming to light and further disgracing his name, life taken.

It was the last straw because the guy was so shallow as to believe that physical possessions are everything. Many people have been to the point of losing everything and not committed suicide (count me as one) because, by losing all their possessions, they learned of what little value they were to begin with.

Well, lets not start psychoanalysing a person that none of us knew. We certainly can't say that this person was shallow, we don't know. Certainly desperate, certainly distressed.
One and a half billion dollars is a hell of a lot of money, it can't feel good to have been suckered out of that much of someone else's money.