flimflam

• They're being fleeced by a finance Ponzi scheme, sheer flimflam, and here's how from what we know:
• And now, after 11 years of substantial cooling we have "climate change" flimflam - well, whatever works! —  The American Spectator
• This little reported Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ruling is accounting flimflam, a capitulation that allows banks to set values to their own toxic assets. —  LewRockwell.com
• Bernard Madoff is an exemplar of business flimflam, much more successful over the years than Blagojevich, whose political flimflammery was paltry by comparison. —  RutlandHerald.com
• His eyes danced with delighted amusement across her puffs at the major as he added, "Must have been silversmiths dangling on most of his ancestral branches, judging from his propensity for making dollars; a million or two, stocks, bonds, any kind of flimflam,--eh, Major Yes," answered the major as he blew a ring of smoke into the air, "yes, just about that; any kind of flimflam. —  Andrew the Glad

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