{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a24720b250fa4918b1f9c64/6a26883348dd4e968989ae3a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Original Con: How Charles Ponzi Invented Modern Fraud - Part 3: The Machinery of Belief","description":"By the time the deposits became large, Charles Ponzi was no longer running a simple lie. He was running a machine. And like any machine, it needed fuel, timing, and constant maintenance.\r\n\r\nThe public record makes one thing plain. Ponzi did not sustain his promises through the postal-coupon trade he described. He sustained them by recycling investor money. That is the center of the mechanism. But the operational consequences were more complicated than the slogan suggests. Every payment to an early investor created the need for a later investor.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/charles-ponzi","author_name":"The Archive Network"}