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Definition:
b) an investment swindle
German translation:
Investmentbetrug
Sample text:
"Rice said he agreed with the SEC that Herl and May were operating a Ponzi scheme in which proceeds from newly sold notes are used to pay interest on older notes."
(Jim Bohman, Limits set on USA Financial, Dayton Daily News, Feb 4, 1999)
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Wordwise: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. A Mr. Ponzi offered to double his investors' money in a very short time. Behind his promise of grandiose returns there was no engine of industry to harness human potential and generate revenue. It was all a facade, using the money of new investors to pay off the previous ones. Soon the bubble burst, and with that Ponzi's name was forever etched in contemporary language as a term for such schemes.
Charles Ponzi (1882?-1949) Italian-born speculator who organized such a scheme in 1919.
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