Download e-book for kindle: Ponzi: The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial by Donald Dunn

By Donald Dunn

ISBN-10: 0767914996

ISBN-13: 9780767914994

simply who was once the fellow whose identify has turn into synonymous with the vintage “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” rip-off during which funds from new traders is used to gift past ones?  In December 1919, he was once an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred money in his pocket.  Six months later, he used to be Boston’s famed “wizard of finance,” lionized by way of the general public and politicians alike.  in response to specific interviews with those that knew Charles Ponzi, lent him their funds, and uncovered him, Donald Dunn’s Ponzi recreates either one in all America’s so much infamous and colourful monetary con artists and the mad money-hungry period during which he thrived.

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