Ponzi scheme

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.
    — Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 82.

词形变化

Ponzi schemes plural

词源

Named after con artist Charles Ponzi (1882–1949), who famously conducted such form of fraud in North America in the 1920s.
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