[Ant11]

In a Ponzi scheme you have to actually participate to get burned.

[fleitz]

If you don't participate in the global economy you can't get burned by it. People who subsistence farm are largely immune to problems in the global economy.

[salvadors]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_rebellion_in_Albania

[marze]

Not if it was such a large Ponzi scheme that it impacted the global economy.