 Eclectic thinking on politics, policy and more 12/19/08Ulysses S. Grant, Ponzi scheme victim
Wonderful piece in WSJ this week by John Steele Gordon on how President Grant was duped after he left office by a Madoff of his day. A great story with a happy ending of sorts -- and a reminder that cons, even of presumably savvy people, have always been with us.
posted by Matt at 7:15 PM
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Matt Miller is the author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity, published by Times Books in January 2009. He is a contributing editor at Fortune and host of public radio's popular week in review program, "Left, Right & Center." Matt is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and served as an aide in the Clinton White House. His first book, The Two Percent Solution, was a Los Angeles Time bestseller. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. BooksPrevious Posts
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