Ponzi Scheme Quotes

• When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Correr, Hombres, Años

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• Todo el gobierno es un esquema Ponzi.

  Bernard Madoff

  Government, Schemes, Whole

  "The Madoff Tapes". Interview with Steve Fishman, nymag.com. February 27, 2011.

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• Los candidatos republicanos hablan de formas de transición de este programa y es una mentira monstruosa. Es un esquema ponzi decirles a nuestros hijos que hoy tienen 25 o 30 años, que están pagando por un programa que va a existir. Cualquiera que esté a favor del status quo con la Seguridad Social hoy en día está involucrado en una monstruosa mentira a nuestros hijos, y no es correcto.

  Rick Perry

  Locos, Mentirosos, Niños

  Debate presidencial republicano en la Biblioteca Reagan, Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. 7 de septiembre de 2011.

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• No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Running, People, Purpose

  "Meet the man behind the Ponzi scheme". Interview with Randy Dotinga, www.csmonitor.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Take the money and run.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Annie Hall, Chapel

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• En el esquema de nuestro gobierno nacional, la presidencia es ante todo el cargo del pueblo.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Office, People

  Grover Cleveland (1904). “Presidential Problems”

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• A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

  Amy Goodman

  Taken, Typical, Earning

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.328, Haymarket Books

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• No vivimos en una economía, vivimos en un esquema Ponzi.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Economy, Schemes

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• All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks.

  Tod Goldberg

  Reality, Bullshit, Guy

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

  Alex Jones

  Pasado, Años, Gente

  Fuente: www.dailykos.com

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• The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

  Tim Lee

  Looks, Financial, Environment

  "Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme?". www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.

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• The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Europe, Numbers

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

  Harry Markopolos

  World, Madoff, Schemes

  Harry Markopolos (2010). “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller”, p.299, John Wiley & Sons

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• The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.

  John C. Goodman

  Government, Order, Ideas

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• The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

  Dennis Prager

  May, Welfare, States

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• If the American public were accurately polled, I suspect the results would find Bonnie & Clyde, Bill Clinton, Ponzi Scheme scamster Bernie Madoff, and the infamous Wily Coyoteto be believed to be more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Clinton.

  Ted Nugent

  Bills, Honest, Trustworthy

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• La idea de que cada vez más ancianos necesitan cada vez más jóvenes, que a su vez envejecerán y necesitarán aún más jóvenes, y así ad infinitum, es un evidente esquema Ponzi ecológico.

  David Attenborough

  Personas, necesidades, planes

  "This heaving planet" de David Attenborough, www.newstatesman.com. 27 de abril de 2011.

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• I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Baby, Thinking, Eight

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

  John Stossel

  Running, Government, Scams

  "Madoff Is a Piker" by John Stossel, townhall.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

  Rachel Maddow

  Social, Outrage, Schemes

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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