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How to invest about 2 trillion dollars...expert advice needed.

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
Hi, I'm a western superpower and I received $1,969,648,000,000 in taxes in 2003

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I got no idea what I got in 2004 an 2005 ain't in yet. So let's just work with the 2 trillion. My main problem is that I owe over 8 trillion so I need some real good investment to make up the shortfall. And the 8 trillion isn't EVERYTHING I owe, but it's what I use for a "ballpark" figure for publication.

Any ideas?

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    TROLL -100 BUY ALL THE SILVER IN THE WORLD...
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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pay down debt. image
    Gone but not forgotten: IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal, CoinsAreFun.
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    Is your name Bush? image
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    JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Give my 3 daughters about a month..................
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
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    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Proof "Pissing Minuteman" quarters are the way to go. You can buy thousands of them and have about $1,969,647,999,500 left to buy 2005 SAE's in ACG MS70 holders.
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the good advice. RYK, I was going to put it all in Halliburton. Do you think that would work?
    I'm getting pretty mad at Iran, too. So maybe some General Dynamics for some of it.
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    Making fun of the U.S. is tres chic right about now.
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    streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    pay 2006 interest on 8Tril. Now crank up the presses so the 8Tril is really only 7.2Tril next year in real terms. This only hurts the people who are at the bottom but they don't vote so WTH.

    Pay the balance in 06 to the types who need the monthly 1st of the month check. Borrow a little to keep the bridges up. Mention how we need more security to keep us safe. Borrow a little for that. Build a bridge in Alaska. Shhhhhh!

    lather, rinse repeat.
    Have a nice day
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please take this nonsense to the open forum where it belongs.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    buy 2,000 debit cards and pass them out ......after people attend the job fair not before
    my goal is to find the monsters and i go where they are but i sometimes miss some.... so if you have any and want to sell IM THE BUYER FOR THEM!!!

    out of rockets ...out of bullets...switching to harsh language
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,811 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Spend the whole pile on 2006 proof sets. You won't have to "expense" the cost because you've purchased an asset. Your Mint subdivision can book a $1.8 trillion profit on the sale, which they can return to your Treasury. It will spend nicely.

    Then , trade the pile of proof sets for the $2 trillion of IOUs (from you, to you) that you keep in your Social Security "trust fund". You can then resell the IOUs to China and get another $2 trillion to spend.

    One last thought. You might consider raising "bid" on 2006 proof sets every now and then. (Just bid on one set at a time so you don't have to spend too much money.) Based on the rising "market price", you can constantly revalue your position and get Social Security out of the hole in no time.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    RedneckHBRedneckHB Posts: 20,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Buy a bunch of nukes. Then blow up everyone you owe money too. Problem solved.image
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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    Just wait. The King of Siam set will catch up to that price.
    Life got you down? Listen to John Coltrane.
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    MercuryMercury Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭✭
    Please take this nonsense to the open forum where it belongs.

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    If I wanted to read about political comments I would not be in a COIN forum.
    Collecting Peace Dollars and Modern Crap.
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    BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    I'd invest it in Iraq. Saudi Arabia will fall to the religious nuts one of these days, so we need to secure our source of oil.
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    goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    trillions?

    I'm jealous...

    I've only got BILLIONS.

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    those of you that continually whine about threads and tell people to take them to the open forum....there's a simple solution. How about you DON'T OPEN a thread that you know is a spoof, joke, etc......
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To put this on topic, how many errors do you think would be included in 2 trillion dollars? (counting paper money that might be printed on a fruit label)

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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Take over some more countries; that'll guarantee you an even better cash-flow. Invest wisely in defense industries and military (he who carries the biggest stick...). Cause a major terrorist incident in order to make the subjects swallow another, more invasive Privacy Act.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .......in.... order to ..(scribble scribble)....make the subjects ......swallow ... ....................

    (scribblescribble)..................another, more .......

    ......(scribble scribble).........invasive Privacy ..................Act.

    Sheeze!

    Type slower, willya Jester?


    ...................Ridge/Chertoff team


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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I guess it's about time to edit and erase that bit of unpatriotic heresy, huh?image

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    Since voicing politics is ok on the coin forum now, how about give it to MOVEON.ORG so they can try and sponsor some more "bush is a nazi" videos so the right wing can slap those socialists down like the pigs they are??? have a nice day!
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    BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shut up and get back to work, slacker. You've got until June to pay your portion!































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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    goose

    nice pic of doctor evil

    here is a pic of his plane and if you look close enough youll see mini me in the seat behind him....while its hard to see both are in identical flight suits

    http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfiles/27974/Rm37694.jpg

    monsterman
    my goal is to find the monsters and i go where they are but i sometimes miss some.... so if you have any and want to sell IM THE BUYER FOR THEM!!!

    out of rockets ...out of bullets...switching to harsh language
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    mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,862 ✭✭✭
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    nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Please take this nonsense to the open forum where it belongs.image
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.

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