Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

- Mitchell Zuckoff

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he wa…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is th…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the ca…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is mislead…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she m…

- Mitchell Zuckoff

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

- Mitchell Zuckoff