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Pyramid-style fraud schemes affected nearly 1,900 people across Morocco, as authorities move to contain a form of financial deception ...

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Australian money manager John Hempton has called the battle between investor Bill Ackman and nutritional-supplement company Herbalife “hedge-fund porn.” There is indeed something vaguely obscene about ...