http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/03/regulators-despair-of-ponzimonium.html The Blog for Dollars & Sense Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/03/regulators-despair-of-ponzimonium.html/comment-page-1#comment-307 Silk32 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:28:00 +0000 http://dandsblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/regulators-despair-of-ponzimonium#comment-307 The common thread amongst Madoff, Standford and Charles Ponzi ("Ponzi Scheme was named for him) is (i) they all offered returns to investors that was higher than the competition's and was seemingly too good to be true, (ii) they had outsized reputations for business acument and (iii) they "looked the part". Corporate swindlers succeed within Corporate America because they have what is known as "executive presence" and they prey on corporations' penchant for looking only at the surface of things. If a bunch of inner city kids can figure it out then I know adults can. To learn more go to http://www.newyorkshockexchange.com/content/view/85/37/ The common thread amongst Madoff, Standford and Charles Ponzi (“Ponzi Scheme was named for him) is (i) they all offered returns to investors that was higher than the competition’s and was seemingly too good to be true, (ii) they had outsized reputations for business acument and (iii) they “looked the part”. Corporate swindlers succeed within Corporate America because they have what is known as “executive presence” and they prey on corporations’ penchant for looking only at the surface of things. If a bunch of inner city kids can figure it out then I know adults can. To learn more go to http://www.newyorkshockexchange.com/content/view/85/37/

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