| 1 | CHARLES PONZI was a likeable man. | |
| 2 | Even Charles Ponzi's victims got a third of their money back. | |
| 3 | Mathematically it is impossible for the current Ponzi scheme of ever increasing levels of debt to survive. | |
| 4 | However, there is a very important sense in which it is unfair - unfair to Charles Ponzi. | |
| 5 | That doesn't mean China wants to risk more money on a Ponzi scheme in its last throes . |