Ponzi in a sentence

The origin of the term “Ponzi scheme,” Charles Ponzi promised investors enormous profits by exploiting international reply coupons.

An initial investigation into Ponzi's banking practices found nothing illegal, but Allen was afraid that if major withdrawals exhausted Ponzi's reserves, it would bring Boston's banking system to its knees.

As with the Ponzi scheme, the price exceeds the intrinsic value of the item, but unlike the Ponzi scheme, there is no single person misrepresenting the intrinsic value.

Attorney General Allen declared that if Ponzi managed to regain his freedom, the state would seek additional charges and seek a bail high enough to ensure Ponzi would stay in custody.

Barron observed that though Ponzi was offering fantastic returns on investments, Ponzi himself was not investing with his own company.

However, several characteristics distinguish these schemes from Ponzi schemes: ** In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly.

Joseph Daniels, a Boston furniture dealer who had given Ponzi furniture which he could not afford to pay for, sued Ponzi to cash in on the gold rush.

Though Ponzi did not tell Gnecco about his years in jail, his mother sent Gnecco a letter telling her of Ponzi's past.

When a Boston financial writer suggested there was no way Ponzi could legally deliver such high returns in a short period of time, Ponzi sued for libel and won $500,000 in damages.

A fraudster who conned more than £1.2 million from investors, friends and family in an elaborate 'Ponzi scheme' that he started while living in a large converted barn near Shrewsbury, has been jailed for six years.

How scammers impersonate real businesses and make Ponzi versions on social.

I mean, you weren’t actually dumb enough to buy his ponzi-scheme scams, we’re you?

Not everything in crypto is a Ponzi scheme.

Short-seller Hindenburg accuses corporate raider Carl Icahn of a “ponzi-like” corporate setupfortune.

Similarly in the dark about risk, Phucien Baptiste, a former police inspector in Pétion-Ville, Haiti, says he knew nothing about Ponzi schemes.

The authorities might disagree, maybe even vehemently, but the SSB could be described as a Ponzi scheme.

The latest celebrity influencer to come under scrutiny for promoting an alleged crypto ponzi scheme is the popular Bollywood actor Govinda.

Barclays, clarifying their stance for not compensating Fretwell in a telephone conversation, made it clear by saying: "The claim has been deemed a Ponzi scheme and not a scam.

Because our economic system works like a Ponzi scheme, everyone, to some degree, tries to make money and move around with their consumerism by taking advantage of others.

But the resulting of prosperity would not last six months if China’s $3.6 trillion global export market—the source of the hard cash that keeps its Ponzi upright—were to crash, which is exactly what would happen if it tried to invade America.