Securities Exchange Company
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 Steerage Passenger…t. Ponzi constructed his autobiography around a narrative of progressive accumulation, skills, contacts, capital, leading inexorably to the Securities Exchange Company of 1920. But the documentary gaps suggest a more turbulent experience, a decade of marginal existence punctuated by small frauds, failed bu…
- The Man Who Could Not Be Fired…gh School Street, a location in Boston’s financial district that would become synonymous with his name. In January 1920, he established the Securities Exchange Company in the Niles Building, three rooms that served as the visible headquarters of an operation that would soon expand far beyond their physical…
- The Circular from Spain…s mayoralty had given way to James Michael Curley’s, and as 1920 began with the inauguration of a new decade that would see Ponzi move his “Securities Exchange Company” to the Niles building on School Street, the structure was complete. Charles Ponzi possessed a specific, actionable business plan built on…