The OP used the <title> tag of a widely-read publication, regardless of the intent of The New Yorker. Madoff didn't run a hedge fund, and though I haven't done the research this may be the largest insider trading conviction related to a hedge fund.
Let's make it clear: do you really claim that what's inside of the < title > there is not a linkbait and SEO?
And that the words appear anywhere else except in the < title > tag there?
Note that the policy of HN is otherwise to even not use the title even when it appears in the real content of the page if it is a linkbait and I, personally and subjectively, like and support that approach. The current title doesn't follow it.
I'm not trying to diminish the topic itself, it's obvious that the S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. used insider info for their trading often, and that it was probably the major way they had an "edge."
