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NXIUM, Theranos, Crypto, And Housewives: A Deep Dive Into Scams

The Financial Confessions

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Theranos and the Real Housewives

Theranos really hit both of those head on, allow people to sort of suspend their disbelief and feel that there must be something inherently good or worthy. But also I think there's this real and it taps into the cult like aspect of it, this feeling that if you want it to be true,. If enough people are saying that it's true that anything can work including things that are physically impossible. We just lived through a very interesting political time, which he thinks every time someone tells me that Real Housewives or con artists, all of this stuff is tawdry and unimportant.

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