明富環球12億美元不翼而飛

????這筆錢既沒有用于豪賭歐洲，也沒有像2008年雷曼兄弟公司（Lehman）一樣，在倒閉之前進行大規模的舉債經營。

????但12億美元到底去了哪里？

????目前，明富環球公司（MF Global）已經破產。今年12月份，該公司CEO喬恩?科賽因在出席國會委員會聽證會時，為自己辯解稱：“我也不知道這筆錢去哪兒了。”

????對于華爾街來說，科賽因就是“偷走圣誕節的鬼精靈”【典故出自好萊塢電影《格林奇偷走圣誕節》（How the Grinch Stole Christmas）——譯注】。 成千上萬的投資者損失慘重，而在這家經紀公司破產之后，1,000多名員工也隨即失業。

????科賽因曾是新澤西州州長，并曾擔任過高盛集團（Goldman Sachs）首席執行官。2010年，科賽因接管明富環球，雄心勃勃地要拓展這家經紀公司的業務。

????結果，在他的帶領下，這家公司卻成為第一個在歐洲債務危機中倒下的美國大型公司。 -- Nin-Hai Tseng

Jon Corzine: Where'd that $1.2 billion go?

????It wasn't just the massive bet on Europe. Or the massive leverage that recalls the days of Lehman, pre-bankruptcy in 2008.

????But just where is that $1.2 billion?

????"I simply do not know where the money is," said Jon Corzine, the CEO of bankrupt MF Global, when he appeared to testify to a Congressional committee in December.

????For some on Wall Street, Corzine is the Grinch who stole Christmas. Thousands of investors lost their money and more than 1,000 employees were laid off after the brokerage house went bust in October.

????Corzine, a former New Jersey governor and former chief executive at Goldman Sachs, took the helm at MF Global in 2010 with plans turn the firm into something much more than a brokerage house.

????Instead he turned it into the first major U.S. casualty of the European debt crisis. -- Nin-Hai Tseng