Charles Ponzi’s Schemes
Stuff You Missed in History Class
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 1:52.5 | I said back in our episode on the South Sea bubble that I kind of wanted to do on Charles Ponzi. |
| 1:58.1 | So here it is. His name is synonymous with one particular kind of fraud today. |
| 2:05.9 | But until I started researching this episode, I did not realize just how short lived this scheme that made him famous was. |
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