I'll be traveling this weekend and probably won't be posting until Monday, maybe Tuesday.
Evidently the Ponzi posts hit a nerve, as records were set for both incoming phone calls and emails, and tied (at one ... you go Bob Kluck) for posted comments.
And in an unprecedented development every last response was positive (towards me at least, which is mostly all I care about).
A partial exception of course being Terry, who despite having claimed to have loved the post, still felt compelled to call me a lazy bastard.
Thanks to everybody for your support and encouragement.
And as for you Terry ... I'll have you know that my dad did indeed marry my mother within 36 hours of having received the ultimatum.
Below, I've posted a video of Kirsty Maccoll who died tragically in a boating accident, having been run over by a careless Mexican billionaire who is suspected of having payed off a minion to take the rap.
I didn't read the entire page about Ponzi Schemes at the SEC site.
Feeling quite satisfied with myself, I quit reading where the post ended.
My friend Terry, anal puppy that he is, read every word and came up with the following.
What are some Ponzi scheme �red flags�?
Many Ponzi schemes share common characteristics. Look for these warning signs:
High investment returns with little or no risk. Every investment carries some degree of risk, and investments yielding higher returns typically involve more risk.
Be highly suspicious of any �guaranteed� investment opportunity.
Among the really good reasons to troll The Heritage Foundation site is that only really, really smart people troll The Heritage Foundation site.
The following quote shows up in the comments of a piece titled "Americans Have Every Reason to Doubt Social Security Solvency"
"The hard fact is that every dime of the $2.5 trillion in surplus Social Security revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, has been spent on wars and other government programs.
Every month, for the past 25 years, the total receipts from the payroll tax have been split two ways.
First, benefits for current retirees are paid from the Social Security revenue.
Then, all remaining Social Security revenue, not needed to pay that month’s benefits, are deposited into the general fund and become indistinguishable from other general fund revenue."