Characteristics Quote by Tim Lee

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from…

— Amy Goodman

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

— Douglas Rushkoff

I understand that finance can be very complex.

— Kevin Harrington

By number of Ponzi schemes there are way more in crypto, kinda per capita, than in other places. But by size of actual Ponzis,…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

— Elizabeth Warren

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

— Michael Lewis

People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift…

— Cameron Winklevoss

It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

“Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the…

— Cameron Stracher

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

— Ben Bernanke

No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you're going…

— Henry Paulson

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

— Harry Markopolos