Investors beware — the Great Fraud Reckoning is upon us

Linette Lopez of Business Insider warns investors to get ready for what will feel like an “inescapable wave of corporate fraud” as a result of a perfect storm of “corporate misery”, tightening financial conditions and the declining stock market, all of which will converge to create “the fraud triangle” — a moment in which a motive or pressure to commit fraud meets with the rationalization and the opportunity.