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postulater

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2. Lets see. If you have $1 billion

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Feb 9, 2014, 07:01 PM

Feb 2014

and you invest $1 million in buying a government. That is 0.1% of your wealth.

If that investment returns even enough to break even then you have come out ahead cuz you own yourself some government.

I guess corporation people really are more equal than regular human people.

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