Ponzi
Example Sentences
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Sadly, those who warn about stock-market manias, bubbles and Ponzi finance always look wrong until they look right.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Madoff scandal, in which investors lost $17.5 billion in invested principal, operated like a typical Ponzi scheme with returns to older investors paid by money from new investors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
In case you missed it, WSJ’s The Journal podcast produced an amazing episode based on my coverage of the convicted Ponzi schemer Paul Regan’s scam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
They fall victim to Ponzi schemes and other scams.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
