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All episodes ↗E02 · August 28, 2026 · 44:41
Peter, Paul, and Ponzi: How a Name Became a Scheme
Case file two: the Securities Exchange Company, Boston 1919–1920. In a single summer a promise of fifty percent in forty-five days took in thousands of New Englanders and gave the fraud its name.