[Oatka]

Her opponents on both sides should dig up that hilarious Rush Limbaugh sendup of “Remember” as she told a committee that she couldn’t remember how she was able, in her first venture into commodities trading, to buy EXACTLY at the bottom and sell EXACTLY at the top - ten times in a row, and turn $10,000 into $100,000.

Something the pros couldn’t do, then or now.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

she was able, in her first venture into commodities trading, to buy EXACTLY at the bottom and sell EXACTLY at the top - ten times in a row, and turn $10,000 into $100,000.

Not exactly. She put in one thousand dollars (and came out with something like $98,000).

In a gaming table sense, the odds-against are simple to compute: if you made a roulette wheel with 100 slots where the ball could fall, and 100 people each put $1000 on a number, I - as one of the 100 - have 99 chances of of losing, and only 1 chance of winning. Somebody has to win, it’s true - but any individual player has only one chance in a hundred of being that winner.

Tells in Hillary’s and Red Bone’s scheme include

• the testimony that Hillary had announced that she needed $100,000 before the game started,

• Hillary was allowed in the game with an inadequate stake,
• Relatedly, Hillary didn’t get a margin call when the rules specified that she should.
• Hillary suddenly stopped after making such a huge killing. If she had been able to do it again, she would have come out with $10 million. Why didn’t she? She says, because of her maternity issues. But she never went back to the well afterward, at any time. Why didn’t she do it when she left the WH “dead broke?”

Something the pros couldn’t do, then or now.

Well, actually anyone could do it - if they never had to cover a margin call. Just keep on betting more and more of other people’s money until your luck turns . . .