Ponzi scheme

As with Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, everything went well provided they continued to put money into the market.

He had been the victim of a Ponzi scheme before but, before he died, he made sure he was one of Mr Madoff's largest beneficiaries.

Ms. Solomon is trying to recover more than $200, 000 that she invested in the Ponzi scheme for her mother.

The company has no intention of resurrecting the investment management side of Mr Madoff's business, which was the Ponzi scheme.

In 2006, one potential investor actually branded it a Ponzi scheme and took his suspicions to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Ponzi Scheme mastermind and his wife generate headlines after sitting down for separate TV interviews.

For all its malevolence, the Soviet empire was like a Ponzi scheme, dependent on ever-increasing amounts of money.

Exactly one year ago, Bernard L. Madoff's two sons turned him in for running the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.

Mr Perry has called Social Security, the pension system on which millions of Americans depend, not only unconstitutional but a Ponzi scheme.

Victims of a Ponzi scheme or other outright fraud can of course maintain that it isn't their fault.

But don't call it a Ponzi scheme. That's unkind. Shame on you.

Who wanted to hear from dismal economists warning that the whole thing was, in effect, a giant Ponzi scheme?

Check writing in the trillions is not a bondholder's friend; it is in fact inflationary, and, if truth be told, somewhat of a Ponzi scheme.

The charge sheet confirms that he ran a Ponzi scheme of unprecedented boldness, dating at least as far back as the 1980s.

There is no unsustainable progression driving the mechanism of a pay-as-you-go pension system and so it is not a pyramid or Ponzi scheme.

Financier Bernard Madoff traded his luxury penthouse for a tiny jail cell after pleading guilty to a massive Ponzi scheme .

Last month Tim Lee, a strategist at pi Economics, described the whole financial system as "the equivalent of a gigantic Ponzi scheme. "

We are starting to observe public opposition to financing this Ponzi scheme in its current form, but it could still have quite a way to go.

For the duration of a Ponzi scheme, it may seem like a victimless crime.

Mr. Yu was less reticent last week, when he denounced U. S. Treasury bonds as a giant 'ponzi scheme' boosted by Federal Reserve purchases.

For these reasons, the big Wall Street firms are notably absent from the long list of victims of Mr Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme.

But the foundation lost at least $2 million in the Ponzi scheme; its executive director, Jay Feinberg, declined to comment.

Does this make Social Security a Ponzi scheme, to quote Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and a leading Republican presidential candidate?

Well, now think about this in the context of a Ponzi scheme such as the one perpetrated by disgraced financier Bernie Madoff.

Ed Lazar was involved in the bookkeeping end of an alphabet-soup Ponzi scheme that had possible mob connections.

In a separate essay last month, Mr. Yu denounced U. S. Treasury bonds as a giant ponzi scheme supported by Federal Reserve purchases.

If you had the good fortune never to have invested in what may end up being the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, count your blessings.

So you see, there could be a little Ponzi scheme in every hedge fund.

Mr Madoff's Ponzi scheme probably began after the 1987 stockmarket crash, which prompted investors to withdraw billions from his fund.

The more likely route to a prosecution, if there is to be one, is to show that they aided their father in perpetrating the Ponzi scheme.

And worries remain that another Ponzi scheme could be brewing, along the lines of Bernie Madoff or Robert Allen Stanford.

It was a pattern that would repeat itself when the Ponzi scheme got going in earnest several decades later.

Through a spokesman, Pang previously has denied the Ponzi scheme claim and defended his credentials as accurate.

the article also detailed a fired ex-president's allegation that part of the firm was involved in a Ponzi scheme.

That's mostly right; in a Ponzi scheme, previous investors get their promised 'returns' through new investors who put in their money.

But it was no Enron or Ponzi scheme.

Madoff himself described his investment business as an unsophisticated "Ponzi scheme, " according to investigators who interviewed him.

When a wave of redemptions hit the Madoff funds, the Ponzi scheme, as Mr Madoff himself reportedly called it, became unworkable.

You might even say that the bursting of the credit Ponzi scheme has left us all in jail now with Madoff.

The stricken Afghan bank had for years been run as a giant Ponzi scheme for the benefit of powerful shareholders.

In many ways, the housing market was a Ponzi scheme run by financial institutions and government.

And I don't mean Bernard Madoff for his decades-long Ponzi scheme.

Start with China's stockmarket, described by Andy Xie, an independent economist, as a "giant Ponzi scheme" .

Since January 2009, the FBI has opened more than 200 Ponzi-scheme cases, he said.

Sounds a bit like a Ponzi scheme, right?

The receiver stopped short of concluding that PEMGroup actually engaged in a Ponzi scheme, however.

Apparently, the difference between a Ponzi scheme and an investment bank is. . . law enforcement.

No one thought that Mr Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme but plenty of people thought he had an unfair advantage.

Ever since Rick Perry derided Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, economists and other pundits have jumped into the fray.

She sometimes says things that make no sense: whatever its flaws, cap-and-trade is not a Ponzi scheme.

Banco Santander reached a settlement with the trustee seeking to recover money for clients of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Bernie Madoff is well recognized as the perpetrator of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, at $50 billion.

The demands for jail sentences are buttressed by the populist notion that Wall Street is basically a Ponzi scheme.

Euphemisms may be useful in the short run, but one finally recognises a Ponzi scheme when it persists.

The government bond market is usually a Ponzi scheme.

The scale of his alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme is hard to comprehend.

They come in the wake of dozens of investment scams, including the $50bn Ponzi scheme presided over by Bernard Madoff in New York.

In addition, he pleaded guilty to 10 counts of mail and wire fraud stemming from his role in the Ponzi scheme.

Above I've explained why the "Ponzi scheme" accusation is accurate, in the context of modern political debates.

In other words, it was a classic Ponzi scheme.

Why is Groupon not merely a tech-bubble datum but a Ponzi scheme?

In the "Highly Likely" scenario, wrote Mr. Markopolos, "Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi Scheme. "

"It was a Ponzi scheme, " Mr Fitrat said.

In sum, Xie says, "Chinese asset markets have become a giant Ponzi scheme. "

That doesn't mean China wants to risk more money on a Ponzi scheme in its last throes.

he confessed to duping investors in a Ponzi scheme.

Bernie Madoff received a 150-year jail sentence for defrauding clients of $65 billion in his Ponzi scheme.

Maybe it isn't precisely a Ponzi scheme, but China's banking policy sure comes close.

Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which came to light in 2008, made clear the risks of handing over capital without close oversight.

But isn't it really pretty obvious that Groupon is a massive Ponzi scheme?

He also oversaw the mechanics of the vast Ponzi scheme.

But in a public scheme such as this, the Ponzi scheme could, in theory, go on forever.

This new criminal case signals the government is moving on those suspected of enabling Mr. Madoff to conduct the Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme continues to rock the financial world.

The credit is good only so long as China keeps recycling funds through the Ponzi scheme.

Moreover, this "public sector Ponzi scheme" is more flexible than a private one.

Mr Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his Ponzi scheme.

In this respect, Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme after all.

A Ponzi scheme does not generate any wealth whatsoever; that is why it ultimately collapses.

There's the Ponzi scheme answer, of course.

But, hey, this is the reason that stocks aren't simply lottery tickets or some kind of Ponzi scheme.

"It's a Ponzi scheme whose head is the central bank, and it can print money, " says Victor Shih, a China expert at Northwestern University.

In china, the Ponzi. Scheme presents a securitization trend which is related to portfolio investment in the broad sense.

Now the whole world knows what a house of cards our whole ponzi scheme economy really is.

Now we rationally know that an economy built on hyper-consumption is a Ponzi scheme; it's a house of cards.

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