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There are a lot of lessons we can take from the economic collapse. One would certainly be: Don't mess with the Madoff.

Bernard Madoff will take all your money, and when you try and fight him, he will win. Literally. That's the report coming from the New York Post, anyway.

The story goes that the jailed 71-year-old got into a heated discussion over, what else, the stock market, with another inmate in the prison yard. Words led to fisticuffs, and Mad-dawg pushed the other jailbird (also a senior citizen) down to the ground.

According to eyewitnesses who share air with the scammer, after push came to shove, Madoff stood over his victim, "red-faced and glaring." The other guy "went chicken" and ran away, although reportedly the two made up the next day. The UPI adds that the fight happened under the radar of prison guards, who punish such a violation with solitary confinement.

Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence at a North Carolina prison for running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme can add to his record: Street cred with his fellow inmates. Now that's priceless.