Tag Archives: schemers


Lewis: Most alleged Ponzis won’t get carded

April 15, 2009 : Permalink

Denver Post – Topps Co. will feature Charlie Ponzi and Bernie Madoff in a series of trading cards due out on June, covering the "world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles." Unfortunately, scores of lesser Ponzi schemers will never stack in […]

Speculators and Our Food: E-I-E-I-O!

January 8, 2009 : Permalink

The Austin Chronicle – Oh, this is just dandy! Hedge-fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators – the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse – have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. E-I-E-I-O! Speculators have […]