Ponzi

Example Sentences

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“I mean, you take a 10%, 20%, 15% of a guy’s NIL money, that’s Bernie Madoff level,” Cronin said Friday, referencing the crooked financier who was convicted in a massive Ponzi scheme.

From Los Angeles Times

Jamie Dimon, ever the mouthpiece for traditional finance, maligned the industry as a fraud, a Ponzi scheme and a collection of pet rocks, among other colorful descriptors.

From The Wall Street Journal

He knew something that others did not: that he was operating a Ponzi scheme.

From MarketWatch

This is a fictitious Ponzi scheme.’”

From Literature

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 Literature