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Mitchell Zuckoff

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Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff

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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud. Mitchell Zuckoff

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Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't know when it starts where it's going to go because they are unexpected events. Mitchell Zuckoff

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Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends. Mitchell Zuckoff

When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. Mitchell Zuckoff

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My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam. Mitchell Zuckoff

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We've suffered a 'Ponzification' of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff

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As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?' Mitchell Zuckoff

You Journalist Worried Always Get Did Story Full

The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi. Mitchell Zuckoff

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I need to know everything inside quote marks is true. Mitchell Zuckoff

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I'm a huge Michael Lewis fan. Mitchell Zuckoff

Huge Michael Fan Lewis

I'm an ex-'Globe' guy. My friends are depicted in 'Spotlight.' Mitchell Zuckoff

Guy Spotlight Friends Depicted

Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined. Mitchell Zuckoff

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While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the Gremlin Special's passengers and crew. Mitchell Zuckoff

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This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes. Do you have to change certain things to make it work? The book is called '13 Hours'; the movie is two hours long. Mitchell Zuckoff

The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it. Mitchell Zuckoff

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