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  1. They increase in popularity as the word gets out about the early investors' success
  2. Initial concerns about the nature of the investment can be rejected, but only at the cost of tearing apart the mechanism that has so far kept the scheme afloat.
  3. They run out of money/investors, and the whole thing comes down.
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