Ponzi
Example Sentences
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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.
A moment of beauty in one breath; in another, a flaw in the fabric, like that day in 2008 when he learned within hours that he had been nominated for a Golden Globe and that he had lost his retirement money in Bernie Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
From Los Angeles Times
As Ken White recently pointed out, though, predicting a sentence on the basis of the number of counts charged and their statutory limits can be extremely misleading—particularly for the defendants who haven’t been accused of overturning a presidential election or running a massive Ponzi scheme.
From Slate
This was the trial’s most granular session yet, with the prosecution utilizing financial spreadsheets, lines of code, lots of cryptocurrency jargon, verbose tweets, and an “excerpt” of a dang Matt Levine podcast with SBF—not even that infamous “Ponzi business” segment!
From Slate
It was the same notorious podcast in which SBF all but agreed with Matt Levine’s characterization of an FTX offering called “yield farming” as a Ponzi scheme.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
