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Old 12-08-2013, 02:28 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Who is Yu and why are you picking on him? Besides, Asians are smart and I'm sure Yu is also.
Must be the result of the poor Canadian education system.
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Old 12-08-2013, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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Sorry you can't tell the difference between a simple typo and a massive gap in knowledge.
Irony. Sweet irony.
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Old 12-08-2013, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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At a very modest 5% you'd be earning 90million a year in interest.
This week in 1980 the Prime rate was 20%. A billion in long-term CD's and you're golden.

Jet is only partially correct. Usury works algebraically if you can rig the rates. Which is what happens.
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Old 12-09-2013, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada
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I would immediately donate half to charity, give my family a few million, then just go travel, finish school, then set myself up in some nice big city I haven't decided on.
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:54 PM
 
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a serious look at how i can make the world better.
How would you make the world a better place?
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Old 12-11-2013, 09:11 PM
 
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Start giving it away by investing in businesses and funneling their profits into charities to make them self-perpetuating.
I would strongly support charities I already support, like Feed My Starving Children, Doctors Without Borders, Halo, the ministry of Dr David Jeremiah, among others. I also have business ideas that I feel would be successful, the main focus would be to provide decent paying American jobs. As CEO I would limit executive pay to 10 times the lowest paid worker in the company, but I myself would draw no salary.
I consider all that I own to belongs to God, and the more fiat currency I can obtain, the more I can use it in accomplishing His purposes.

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Old 12-12-2013, 12:07 AM
 
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I would immediately donate half to charity, give my family a few million, then just go travel, finish school, then set myself up in some nice big city I haven't decided on.
C'mon, you know you can be more specific than that. You would move to the us, wouldn't you? It's ok, you can say it.
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Old 12-18-2013, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada
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C'mon, you know you can be more specific than that. You would move to the us, wouldn't you? It's ok, you can say it.
Well no, I was going to say Berlin, but I haven't really travelled enough to decide so specifically.
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Old 12-18-2013, 11:02 PM
 
Location: somewhere in the woods
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The ex-CEO of United Healthcare received 1.8 billion in severance pay, so it's not out of the realm of possibility, at least for him, but if suddenly you were in possession on that amount of fiat currency, what would you do? (to coin a phrase by John Quinones).


I would buy 1.2 million sq acres for 800 million and spend the rest living there.
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Old 12-19-2013, 01:17 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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The ex-CEO of United Healthcare received 1.8 billion in severance pay, so it's not out of the realm of possibility, at least for him, but if suddenly you were in possession on that amount of fiat currency, what would you do? (to coin a phrase by John Quinones).
Buy stuff.

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