Episode 44: Swindled

  1. “William Miller, the Original Schemer,”  Time, March 7 2012, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2104982_2104983_2104992,00.html

  2. “W.F. MILLER IS PARDONED.; Governor Commutes Sentence of Franklin Syndicate's Head.,” New York Times, February 11 1905,  https://www.nytimes.com/1905/02/11/archives/wf-miller-is-pardoned-governor-commutes-sentence-of-franklin.html

  3. A. Baldwin, Heroes and Villains of Finance: The 50 Most Colorful Characters in the History of Finance (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons 2015).

  4. Donald Dunn, Ponzi: the Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons (New York: Broadway Books, 2004).

  5. Mitchell Zuckoff, Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (New York: Random House, 2005)

  6. “In Ponzi We Trust,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 1998, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-ponzi-we-trust-64016168/ 

  7. “The History of the Ponzi Scheme Goes Deeper Than You Think,” Time, 12 August 2020, https://time.com/5877434/first-ponzi-scheme/ 

  8. “The No. 1 Ladies Defrauding Agency,” Longreads, July 2019, https://longreads.com/2019/07/02/the-no-1-ladies-defrauding-agency/

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