Clarence Barron
Books
- Fifty Percent in Ninety Days Charles Ponzi, the Boston Post, and the Scheme That Named a Fraud · Liszt Think
In 1920, an Italian immigrant clerk in Boston promised to double investments in ninety days through postal reply coupons.
- The Auditor’s LedgerThe arithmetic that Clarence Barron performed at his desk in early August had already traveled far from his office at Dow Jones. It had moved through the Wall Street Journal’s…
- The Publisher’s Gamble…of his fortune existed in quantities that could not have generated one percent of the returns he had distributed. The audit confirmed what Clarence Barron’s arithmetic had suggested: Ponzi’s operation was a fiction. Suspicion had been one thing. The Post had already published Clarence Barron’s…
- The Bank Examiner’s Knock…s postal coupon arbitrage to physical impossibility: more coupons claimed than existed in the entire world. By Monday morning, the run that Clarence Barron had predicted in his financial weekly had begun in earnest. Two thousand dollars withdrew before noon. The lines formed early. The coffee a…