“ONLY a few months ago he was a dishwasher. A man untaught in finance shows Wall Street and the greatest financiers in the world that they are pikers. Whether Ponzi’s bubble bursts or not, the American people will have to take off their hats to a man as clever as he is.”

So the Rochester Times-Union sums up a good deal of the nation-wide editorial comment inspired by the meteoric rise of Charles A. Ponzi, Boston’s “Wizard of Finance,” who has stirred America and the world at large with the greatest “get-rich-quick” scheme in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

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Source: http://www.themoralliberal.com/