Jun 6, 2025 | Individual / Social Impact, News, Pyramid Scheme Politics
by Robert L. FitzPatrick, Author, PONZINOMICS, the Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing For more than 40 years, multi-level marketing (MLM) has enjoyed the support of major US institutions – news media and publishing, Wall Street, universities, Congress, and law...Apr 28, 2024 | Humor, News
Reports of mice losing lives or limbs in what are called “mouse trays” containing delicious food had increased to alarming levels. It became the subject of intense controversy, leading to a conference of concerned mice. The mice have been told by other...
Mar 4, 2020 | Economics / Financial, Individual / Social Impact, MLM, News, PSA in the Media
Yahoo Finance’s remarkable 3-episode podcast on multi-level marketing, Illegal Tender, Season 4, should be recognized as a milestone in business media coverage of MLM. For the first time – without equivocation and without entertaining even a hint of...
Jun 14, 2019 | Economics / Financial, False Profits, MLM, News
It is often said that recognizing “pyramid schemes” is difficult, complex, and confusing. Over the years that I studied “multi-level marketing”, I came to realize that the challenge of recognizing pyramid schemes is not complexity or disguise; it is political...