Sentences with phrase «like pyramid schemes»

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

We saw a lot of ministers showing up on the Ashley Madison hack, and John Oliver shined a light on some people who treat the Kingdom of God like a pyramid scheme.

It's like a pyramid scheme.

Just like a pyramid scheme, only distressingly legal.

The organization of TFA is a bit like a pyramid scheme.

«I've also noted before how ebooks are like a pyramid scheme.

Because they work much like a pyramid scheme.

But having said that bitcoin looks like a pyramid scheme to me.

Bitcoin looks equally dubious like a pyramid scheme.

But that was on charges of fraud and violating the country's laws on door - to - door sales, and the operation itself was being run like a pyramid scheme.

The company actually worked like a pyramid scheme, requiring people to pay to become an affiliate and rewarding them for getting others to sign up.

Not exact matches

It doesn't take a financial whiz to understand that many ICOs operate like classic pump and dump scams or pyramid schemes.

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

Like, the lawsuit is almost «you induced me to invest in a pyramid scheme, and I lost money, so I want my money back,» which is sensible enough.

Herbalife (HLF)-- FTC out with «verdict» on the Pyramid Scheme — NOT a Pyramid scheme BUT fines company $ 200m and mandates changes to biz practices — does this seem like the company is in the clear?

Basing one's philosophy on a pyramid scheme, like Mormonism, is idiocy.

I hated going to church because things like communion cups or kids» choirs or fundraising announcements triggered paranoia about brainwashing and pyramid schemes.

I guess it's a bit like the chain letters of my childhood (did you do that, there was even a chocolate one, a bit like a chocolate pyramid scheme) in that it is popular in your «circle» for a while, then moves on once everyone has had a go.

But at least candidates are offered great deals on cheap jewelry from a pyramid scheme like Chloe and Isabel, right?

It's like a text - based pyramid scheme.

All your standard Mario desert themed elements are there like quicksands, pyramid, a drab beige colour scheme that makes me think video game companies assume Egypt and the pyramids always looked the way they do now...

I mean living at the top of the New York Pyramid scheme this man makes Ponzi look like a respectable citizen.

Everything looks fine, just like in every pyramid scheme.

As I blogged about here last week, the editor of Blawg Review kicked off a meme he called Simply the Best, in which he listed his top 10 law blogs and then asked each listed blog to list its 10 top and so on like some blogger pyramid scheme.

Like some of those «consumed» with the Amway theory, you may have fallen prey to one of the most well - known pyramid schemes in history.

Something tells me that, if we were to visualize this scheme, it might look a bit like a pyramid.

Noting the difficulty of determining the real reasons behind bitcoin's most recent value spike, like others before him, Faux highlighted that it had taken place around the same time that a possible pyramid scheme was discovered.

In his scathing critique of the DAICO, Preston Byrne writes: «I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, because the SEC literally wrote a report about the original DAO scheme, likened it to a security, and cited as authority for this proposition not one but TWO cases relating to an infamous 1970s pyramid scheme that landed its promoter in federal prison for nearly a decade.»

The broken DAO concept, in particular, requires extensive rethinking and movement onto private / permissioned blockchains in order to shed its pyramid scheme - like qualities and serve a useful function.

Given the amount of ether wasted weekly in ICO exit scams and pyramid schemes, games like Crypto All Stars are arguably one of the better uses for the ethereum network.

In an attempt to dispel fears of any association they might have with a pyramid scheme, Bitcoiin2Gen responded to the media's allegations by elaborating that their four level pyramid - like commission structure, where potential investors can earn money by promoting B2G by word of mouth, will only exist during the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

Over that period of time we have had numerous agents tell us that their brokers said we were a «cult», «just like Exit Realty» or a «pyramid scheme».

Its very pyramid scheme like and I had no doubt it was some kind of guru like thing.

It seems, in retrospect, worse than a multi-level marketing scheme — like an upsidedown pyramid.

When a large company like Rogers puts the effort it has into drawing in buyers and sellers, most not knowing fully what they're a part of, into what I feel is a pyramid scheme.