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    Everyone Who Started Watching 'Mad Money' In 2005 Now Billionaires

    According to Wiki, he routinely made $10 million per year for 14 years. (1987 to 2001). When he started Mad Money, he claimed to be worth $100 million. This article says he is making just under $10 million per year after taxes & lifestyle now...
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    Amanda Berry's hero - Charles Ramsey

    When you hear a hero's story, it's usually a very tear jerking tale. Listening to Ramsey, it was anything but a tear jerker. The story is not funny, but somehow Ramsey turned the whole situation into a comedy sketch. I love how right off the bat, he starts telling the 911 dispatcher about...
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    80th richest person in the world, squatting illegally in government bungalow.

    Corruption is corruption. There are no degrees of corruption, just some corruption pays more/hurts more than other forms. Do you not think that if that rich woman was as poor as those 10 year old girls that she would not also hold a baby that wasnt hers to try to get more money for herself...
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    Scientific Evidence: Money DOES Buy Happiness

    Actually I've read alot of research on this. What makes you happy is what you believe makes you happy. Everyone sets up their own blueprint in their mind on what they think will make them happy. So if you think that money will make you happy and you are poor, you are not going to be happy...
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    80th richest person in the world, squatting illegally in government bungalow.

    What do you mean the poverty set in due to foreign rules? India has been conquered so many times that there has always been foreign rules throughout their history. The times when they did rule themselves, they collapsed due to their corruption. The more corrupt a people are(not just...
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    anyone thinks over zero interest rate?

    On average, cash loses about 4% of its value every year. And thats if its under your mattress.
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    Canadian average weekly wage $909

    By comparison the US average weekly wage is $773 per week. Seems like they are making more money until you look at median home prices. In Canada median home prices are $353,000. In the US, its $238,000. Basically all that extra money just goes into housing.
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    80th richest person in the world, squatting illegally in government bungalow.

    http://ibnlive.in.com/news/indias-richest-woman-savitri-jindal-asked-to-vacate-government-house/388040-3-240.html Times are tough when you have over $10 billion dollars and are the richest woman in India and you can't even pay rent. Obviously a liberal, thinking "Let the taxpayer pay my rent"
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    Do you gun law people also believe we should ban cars?

    If someone wanted, how many people could someone with a car kill? A lot more than 20 in 2 minutes.
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    Student debtors can't buy housing, cars, etc.

    Average cost to get a bachelors degree at a public university. $30k Average cost of a new car. $30k Its the private universities that seem to be overcharging and are whats getting students worked up. But I guess if someone charged me $100k for a $30k car, I might bitch about making...
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    Do you gun law people also believe we should ban cars?

    And yet anyone can buy a car without having a license.
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    Boston Marathon Crooks

    Its pretty obvious that most of these people do not NEED these jackets. They are just stealing them from some poor vendor who left his stand after the bombing. How low is your character when you will steal an ugly $60 jacket, just because everyone else is stealing one? <iframe...
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    If everyone is selling gold/silver why is it hard to buy now?

    Generic silver completely out. http://www.apmex.com/Product/156/Generic_Silver_999_Fine_per_ounce.aspx Apmex 1oz gold bars completely out. http://www.apmex.com/Product/60162/1_oz_APMEX_Gold_Bar9999_FineIn_Assay_Tamper_Evident_Pkg.aspx So if everyone is selling, why isnt there more...
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    The startling rise of disability in America

    GM is worth 40B So under that scheme they have to employee 40,000 people. Currently they employ 213,000 people, so would the poor bitch if GM laid off 173,000 people or would they say "oh that's fair because as long as they employ 1 per per million, its ok"?
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    MLK day is bad for the economy

    Today I went to comcast because I needed to exchange some equipment and I find out they are closed because of MLK day. The sign said "In honor of MLK, we are closed today" But what I read was "its black people day, we ain't going to work" MLK is a racist holiday that does nothing to...
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    The White House's Response To The Petition To Build A Death Star

    $852 quadrillion to build it. Wow...you would this this is something Obama would jump right on. If you spent $8.5 trillion a year, you should get it built in about 100,000 years. At least thats 100,000 years of 0% unemployment. :)
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    the thread of bad predictions

    Wow, yeah. I made that trade almost 5 years ago. The worst one of my life. (I never tried to reneg though, but I actually am getting a settlement this year from the class action suit, getting something like 15% back of what I lost) Cant believe you remembered the price I got in at as I...
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    How much money is circulating in the world? (measured in dollars)

    World GDP is $79 Trillion(as of 2011). Rate of the Velocity of money is about 1.65. $79t/1.65 = about $48 trillion circulating in the world. This means the average person is spending about $11,285 every year. If you are spending more than this, you are taking more than your "fair share"...
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    the thread of bad predictions

    I looked them all up and got these results....This is what you would've made had you bought on Jan 3,2000 up until Jan 4, 2013 as a return. Oracle +69% Nokia -87% Medtronic +10% Flextronics -75% Henry Schein +1150% Waste...
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    Real Estate boom of 2013

    Sacramento y.o.y.(as of november) Home prices up 23% Phoenix Home prices up 40% San Francisco Home prices up 17.3% Houston, TX Home prices up 39.2% You can check your own market trends on Trulia.com
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