ponzi-scheme

Mad staring eyes of the headlamp ponzi-scheme mascot

Boing Boing 2008

In fact, it was on only on New Years Day that Reuters which specialized in financial coverage pointed out that our whole economy may be a ponzi-scheme.

Danny Schechter: As the New Year Begins, Issues to Think More Deeply About 2009

The ponzi-scheme King and Queen, Bernard and Ruth Madoff, are perhaps the most explicit examples of the unparallel system of justice that uses men and women of color as fodder for the Prison Industrial Complex's insatiable appetite.

The Black Tax: Still Well & Alive In '09 2009

As it is, these problems are hidden and will remain so until the ponzi-scheme collapses as it must, as it does in depressions.

Usury! 2008

We have made up the difference by consumer lending usury, but that is a ponzi-scheme that is now coming apart.

Ali Paulson and his 40 thieves Athanasius 2008

Final analysis: this bill is nothing but a public works project for paper-pushing ponzi-scheme workers.

Really, Chuck? Bend Over, AGAIN? 2008

Final analysis: this bill is nothing but a public works project for paper-pushing ponzi-scheme workers.

Really, Chuck? Bend Over, AGAIN? 2008

We have made up the difference by consumer lending usury, but that is a ponzi-scheme that is now coming apart.

Ali Paulson and his 40 thieves Athanasius 2008

Insiders, the ones who, in part, are responsible for the mess, are about to pick up a massive pay day: a 14% fee for putting back together what they broke including a guaranteed £9m fee for just taking the meeting about what to do about the bank's collapse that they helped ensure by participating in a massive ponzi-scheme mortgage loan fraud.

Max Keiser: Disaster Banking: British Bank Bradford & Bingley Blows Up and Insiders Make a Bundle 2008

The envelope is your membership in the ponzi-scheme, where everyone tries to squeeze the poor by proxy.

The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin 2008