Links for April 12th:

• Marc Dreier: A fraudster more brazen than Madoff? – A fascinating account of a very recent and amazing financial fraudster.
• You are being lied to about pirates – Seems the pirates have some valid reasons for their thieving…

Just so you know, this is an automated recent overview of the Linkblog, a collection of interesting links I find on my travels. The archives are here: http://www.wibbler.com/category/linkblog/