I know of no business that has that kind of record for length of time in business and number of people helped. When business start to fail they usually end up by taking the money before declaring bankruptcy. kentay
But the early participants in Ponzi schemes CAN expect to be big winners, right? It's the later entrants who are left holding the bag.
Not in Bernie Madoff's case. He went to jail. But he was the only ponzi schemer who went to jail because he was the only ponzi schemer who robbed The 1%.