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All right, everybody. You're listening to the Dennis Prager show. I thank you for doing so.

And while there is a lot in the news that I want to talk to you about,

I want to talk first to Mitchell Zucoff, who is a professor at Boston University Professor

of Journalism, who has written a book about something that has always fascinated me. And I

suspect I'm not alone. I suspect that 98.423% of you listening has heard of the idea of

or the nonsense of or whatever you wish to go or the evil of a Ponzi scheme, where people

pay in money, some get more money, but eventually a lot of people lose all their money.

Well, it's actually named after somebody. There was a guy Ponzi. And Charles Ponzi is the guy

who developed this. And Mitchell Zucoff of Boston University has written the true story of a

financial legend, Ponzi. This is Dennis Prager and welcome to the program.

Hi, thank you. It is as soon as I saw this book was written, I knew that I had to have you on.

I don't know if there is anybody who has a financial anything named after him that is as famous

or infamous as Ponzi. Even Capone didn't get a machine gun named after him. That's right.

Yes, I mean, when you think I cannot think of a parallel. This Ponzi fascinates, I guess

I don't think he fascinates people. They don't even think of him.

When, in fact, I didn't know it was named after a guy. So I assume that I'm in the majority

in that way. We all heard of the scheme, but we don't know the guy.

I think you were right. When you said 98.423% it heard of Ponzi schemes. I think the other half

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