To paraphrase the late great Roy Peterson, classic Canadian editorial cartoonist, The Scams Stop Here! Or here. Here dam*it! Okay, okay, here!!! Here ! (we mean it this time)…
In college, The Count had a good friend from New York with some questionable acquaintances back home who started a couple “pyramid investment clubs” that he took to other college campuses when ours became saturated. He made an absolute fortune since he was at the top before it collapsed and he got away with it, too. True dat. P.S. great stories about being a valet parking lot attendant at a “connected” upscale restaurant and racing Maseratis and Ferraris while their owners dined… “we drove them faster than their owners ever did”. Bon temps…
Next thing should be controls on private equity takeovers of essential health care businesses. So far almost every one of them bought by a PEC was slowly degraded until it had to be sold. To do that the patients were gradually forced out, and the place was stripped of assets until there was no recourse but to sell it. And the same for other lines of business they get into. No regulations and no fuss from government.
The best get rich quick scam has been ruined by poseurs. Getting into politics was once a road to high profit, low labor money making. All on the down low and proper payouts to the right people to keep it that way. Retire early and see yourself called a ‘distinguished senior statesman’. Now any idiot can play. The rules went out the window and all the old way of doing things will get you is arrested.
rmremail 28 days ago
Around the corner in the alley is ‘Little Joe’s piece of yours investment group’
Kiba65 28 days ago
Love the little dog.
wallylm 28 days ago
To paraphrase the late great Roy Peterson, classic Canadian editorial cartoonist, The Scams Stop Here! Or here. Here dam*it! Okay, okay, here!!! Here ! (we mean it this time)…
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member 28 days ago
Sign erected by Big Al’s Piece of Mind Investment Group
sirbadger 28 days ago
If I can’t invest in Ponzi schemes, what do I do with my money?
Doug K 28 days ago
All other schemes are allowed.
comixbomix 28 days ago
Big Al’s latest marketing scheme…
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 28 days ago
Who knew it was so simple?
Meg: Cute as a Button... The ON is important! 28 days ago
I’m going to go into DC and see if there’s a comparable sign outside the SC building. I’m guessing “no.”
mrwiskers 28 days ago
Glad my parents didn’t name me Ponzi.
Count Olaf Premium Member 28 days ago
Is that a Jan Lewan polka playing in the background? Why, yes, The Count believes it is…
Groucho & Redd Panda 28 days ago
Aren’t Ponzies those green things, you use to make Guakamoallie?
Count Olaf Premium Member 28 days ago
In college, The Count had a good friend from New York with some questionable acquaintances back home who started a couple “pyramid investment clubs” that he took to other college campuses when ours became saturated. He made an absolute fortune since he was at the top before it collapsed and he got away with it, too. True dat. P.S. great stories about being a valet parking lot attendant at a “connected” upscale restaurant and racing Maseratis and Ferraris while their owners dined… “we drove them faster than their owners ever did”. Bon temps…
sandpiper 28 days ago
Next thing should be controls on private equity takeovers of essential health care businesses. So far almost every one of them bought by a PEC was slowly degraded until it had to be sold. To do that the patients were gradually forced out, and the place was stripped of assets until there was no recourse but to sell it. And the same for other lines of business they get into. No regulations and no fuss from government.
dflak 28 days ago
Social Security. If we don’t start importing more people to pay the bills, the system will collapse.
walsh.william 28 days ago
Of course the Fed’s run the biggest Ponzi scheme imaginable. . .
PoodleGroomer 28 days ago
The big investment opportunity now is in Bolivian Deep Rock Tapioca Mines that are producing critical boba tea ingredients.
mruch 28 days ago
I like the bullet holes in the window
wrust33 28 days ago
Send it to the convicted Felon-in-Chief!
cupertino jay 28 days ago
google Charles_Ponzi for more info (links disallowed here)
anomaly 28 days ago
‘Cracking down on oversight’? I thought they’d just been ignoring oversight.
mistercatworks 28 days ago
Careful, some Ponzi schemes are presented as life coaching enterprises.
wildlandwaters 28 days ago
…and after leaving Big Al’s, you can take a sharp left into the alley…how convenient!
Bilan 28 days ago
What’s the difference between a Ponzi scheme and the stock market?
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Well?
Silence Dogood Premium Member 28 days ago
So, Donald changed his name to Big Al? Anything to suck up gullible bucks…
gcarlson 28 days ago
WMKVFM dot org plays the Tooth Fairy weekdays at 12:30-something MT and at an earlier time I’ve forgotten.
fourteenpeeves 28 days ago
Loan shark 101
lnrokr55 28 days ago
Cobwebs or bullet holes?
eddi-TBH 28 days ago
The best get rich quick scam has been ruined by poseurs. Getting into politics was once a road to high profit, low labor money making. All on the down low and proper payouts to the right people to keep it that way. Retire early and see yourself called a ‘distinguished senior statesman’. Now any idiot can play. The rules went out the window and all the old way of doing things will get you is arrested.
Groucho & Redd Panda 28 days ago
trump has serious medical condition. He sleep-walks and asks for money as he walks.
Anything you do to him, elicits the same response “I need Money!”
You could drop an anvil on him ( what a lovely idea) “I need Money!” Push him into a shark tank ( another fine idea ) “I need Money!”
Just don’t make him walk down a ramp, those things are scary. “Oh no! A 4% slope! Someone hold my hand!”
keenanthelibrarian 27 days ago
By the bullet holes, it looks like Al’s been having a hard time – disgruntled investors, perhaps?
bluecat 24 days ago
If you go to Big Al’s and see photos from a trip to famous sites of Egypt, run.