Charles Ponzi was a very smart man, so was Bernie Madoff and many others. They also made a lot of right calls. Not only that, if you flip a coin, you will get 50% right. So what? What MA does differently, however, is that he claims that
1.   He has a model that 100% right (over 90% of his forecasts are wrong even after shifting dates, flip-flopping, and other tricks. Nobody has seen the model, and what he shows is just print-screens from something written for MSDOS. And then he claims his computer is not connected to the internet because he does not want to get hacked. Oh my - an MSDOS program getting hacked via internet!) 
2.   He collected unique historical data worth of hundreds of millions (we have the Library of Congress, the British library and others, the IMF and so on, but nobody has anything like it and his data is unique. Nobody has seen the data, he always shows only one chart and claims it took N-years to produce and cost hundreds of millions)
3.   He is an excellent programmer and wrote all the code (Up until 1999 when he was charged he was not known as a programmer. Then all of the sudden, he somehow became a programmer. At the age of 50. In jail. It’s like saying “I started to do ballet at 50 and became a famous ballet dancer)
4.   He was a very successful trader and made a lot of money (the SEC documents show he was a terrible trader and lost hundreds of millions of clients’ money. That’s the reason why he decided to cheat to cover up his losses. And MA officially admitted all this)
5.   He is a remarkable historian (no historian has ever examined his writings on accuracy and fact-checking. It may very well be all bs)
6.   He is totally innocent, all that japanese story was a conspiracy plot against him (I cited numerous sources earlier that proved the opposite)
7.   His mission in life is to educate an average Joe because he is filthy rich so he does not need money since he is not a salesman like everybody else (If that was the case, why bs people with made-up praise letters and brag about his computer, data, etc. He is a salesman and what he does is exactly a pure and utter sale. And despite his “mission” he charges Joes hundreds for reports and dvds and thousands for conferences)
8.   and thousands of other similar claims

And then you say I am not objective or something. Who cares. You should have done all the fact-checking yourself instead of drooling over his bs. I did all the work for you citing sources and everything for free and put everything right in front of your nose. If you have facts (not your personal views or biases) – let’s see them.