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 6 months ago
Around the corner in the alley is ‘Little Joe’s piece of yours investment group’
Kiba65 6 months ago
Love the little dog.
wallylm 6 months 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 Premium Member 6 months ago
Sign erected by Big Al’s Piece of Mind Investment Group
sirbadger 6 months ago
If I can’t invest in Ponzi schemes, what do I do with my money?
Doug K 6 months ago
All other schemes are allowed.
comixbomix 6 months ago
Big Al’s latest marketing scheme…
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member 6 months ago
Who knew it was so simple?
Skeptical Meg 6 months 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 6 months ago
Glad my parents didn’t name me Ponzi.
Count Olaf Premium Member 6 months ago
Is that a Jan Lewan polka playing in the background? Why, yes, The Count believes it is…
Redd Panda 6 months ago
Aren’t Ponzies those green things, you use to make Guakamoallie?
Count Olaf Premium Member 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Social Security. If we don’t start importing more people to pay the bills, the system will collapse.
walsh.william 6 months ago
Of course the Fed’s run the biggest Ponzi scheme imaginable. . .
PoodleGroomer 6 months ago
The big investment opportunity now is in Bolivian Deep Rock Tapioca Mines that are producing critical boba tea ingredients.
mruch 6 months ago
I like the bullet holes in the window
wrust33 6 months ago
Send it to the convicted Felon-in-Chief!
cupertino jay 6 months ago
google Charles_Ponzi for more info (links disallowed here)
anomaly 6 months ago
‘Cracking down on oversight’? I thought they’d just been ignoring oversight.
mistercatworks 6 months ago
Careful, some Ponzi schemes are presented as life coaching enterprises.
wildlandwaters 6 months ago
…and after leaving Big Al’s, you can take a sharp left into the alley…how convenient!
Bilan 6 months ago
What’s the difference between a Ponzi scheme and the stock market?
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Well?
Silence Dogood Premium Member 6 months ago
So, Donald changed his name to Big Al? Anything to suck up gullible bucks…
gcarlson 6 months ago
WMKVFM dot org plays the Tooth Fairy weekdays at 12:30-something MT and at an earlier time I’ve forgotten.
fourteenpeeves 6 months ago
Loan shark 101
lnrokr55 6 months ago
Cobwebs or bullet holes?
eddi-TBH 6 months 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.
Redd Panda 6 months 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 6 months ago
By the bullet holes, it looks like Al’s been having a hard time – disgruntled investors, perhaps?
bluecat 6 months ago
If you go to Big Al’s and see photos from a trip to famous sites of Egypt, run.