首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
职称考试
From Ponzi to Madoff The year was 1920. The country was the United States o...
From Ponzi to Madoff The year was 1920. The country was the United States o...
admin
2020-12-24
103
问题
From Ponzi to Madoff
The year was 1920. The country was the United States of America. The man’s name was Charles Ponzi. Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account.Instead, they should give it to him to save for them. Ponzi promised to pay them more than
the bank. For example, a savings account might pay you $5 a year for every $100 youdeposit. Ponzi, however, would pay you $40 a year for every $100 you gave him to hold.Many people thought this was a good plan. They began to give their money to Ponzi.
How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him: He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money.However, he also kept a lot of the money for himself. Soon he had $250 million. This was a kind of theft, and it was against the law. The people who gave him their money didn’t think anything was wrong. Ponzi paid them every month, just like a bank. Ponzi continued this way of working for two years. Then one day, he didn’t have enough money to pay all the people. They discovered his crime, and he went to prison for fraud.
Ninety years later, people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Madoff. People said he gave good advice about money. They said when they gave him their money, he paid them a lot more than the bank. Madoff helped hospitals,schools, and individuals earn money. Over a period of 40 years, people gave him $170 billion. However, no one investigated what he did with the money. The people who gave Madoff their money also didn’t think anything was wrong because he paid them every month.
One day,Madoff didn’t have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay.That’s when people discovered how Madoff worked: He was taking money from some people to pay other people, just the way Charles Ponzi did. However, this time, instead of losing millions of dollars, people lost billions. Madoff was accused of fraud, and United States government officials arrested him.He
didn’t have to go on trial because he said he was guilty. In 2009 , a judge sentenced him to 150 years in prison. Bernard Madoff’s crime was even bigger than Ponzi’s. It was the biggest fraud in history. The lesson of this story is clear: When something seems too good
to be true, it probably is!
For every $100,Ponzi promised to pay people .
选项
A. $5 a year
B. $20 a year
C. $40 a year
D. $100 a year
答案
C
解析
答案在第一段 "Ponzi,however, would pay you $40 a year for every $100 you gave Mm to hold.”这个句子里可以找到。
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/sRpQKKKQ
相关试题推荐
FromPonzitoMadoff Theyearwas1920.thecountrywasUnitedStatesofA...
FromPonzitoMadoff Theyearwas1920.thecountrywasUnitedStatesofA...
TheChangingMiddleClass TheUnitedStatesperceivesitselftobeamiddle...
TheChangingMiddleClass TheUnitedStatesperceivesitselftobeamiddle...
FromPonzitoMadoff Theyearwas1920.ThecountrywastheUnitedStateso...
FromPonzitoMadoff Theyearwas1920.ThecountrywastheUnitedStateso...
FromPonzitoMadoff Theyearwas1920.ThecountrywastheUnitedStateso...
AHeroicWoman ThewholeoftheUnitedStatescheereditslatesthero,Ashle...
AHeroicWoman ThewholeoftheUnitedStatescheereditslatesthero,Ashle...
AHeroicWoman ThewholeoftheUnitedStatescheereditslatesthero,Ashle...
随机试题
对认知功能评估的内容不包括 A.定向力 B.注意力 C.意识状态 D.情
关于AML-M1型白血病,叙述错误的是 A.POX染色阳性的原始细胞大于3%
新生儿窒息复苏后护理,下列哪项是错误的 A、保暖,静卧 B、严密观察
乙、丙级城市规划编制单位,取得《资质证书》至少满()并符合城市规划编制资质分级
以下资料列述了中国银行股改上市过程中的重要事件:2003年12月30日,中国银行
一国政府所持有的,备用于弥补国际收支赤字、维持本币汇率等的国际间普遍接受的一切资
从管理形式上看,现代人力资源管理是()。
患者右上后牙因龋充填后3周自发钝痛,与温度无关,咬合痛。查:右下6近中邻面充填物完好,无高点。可能原因为()A.药物烧伤B.食物嵌塞C.充填体悬
酒当归的炮制作用是A.增强活血补血调经作用B.既能补血,又不致滑肠C.止血和血,治崩中漏下D.补血调经,润肠通便E.润肠通便,治血虚便秘
原始凭证按照填制手续及内容不同,可分为().A.会计凭证和记账凭证B.自制凭证和外来凭证C.一次凭证和累计凭证D.单式凭证和复式凭证