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To: CutePuppy

I’m sure that there are plenty of real victims here, but I cannot help but chuckle at the people who have $5M+ and cannot live off a safe 5% return-but need to chase the BIG YIELDS...when I have not even one tenth of that amount and would never trust a person...no matter who with that money.


5 posted on 12/14/2008 2:33:16 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

What happened to “Republicans are the party of the Rich?”

It won’t be too long before they’re asking for a Taxpayer bailout, and their biggest advocates in Congress will be leftist Democrats.


7 posted on 12/14/2008 2:36:24 PM PST by Boiling Pots (Anthony Kennedy: The 2nd most important person in Government 2009-2013. Pray for his good health.)
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To: BobL
The guy running the scam is described as a Leftwingtard, and all the victims are his closest friends and associates and their relatives.

Gotta' be a bunch of Leftwingtards in there.

They'll all complain that George Bush let this happen. Can hardly wait until they start demanding Obama redo all the trades so they can get their money back like it was some kind of election in Florida.

Same crowd.

It's the water.

9 posted on 12/14/2008 2:37:57 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: BobL
...but need to chase the BIG YIELDS...

It' called 'Keeping AHEAD of the Joneses'.

Their self esteem seems to be directly tied to the size of their bank account.

41 posted on 12/14/2008 3:31:33 PM PST by realdifferent1 (We've tried the soap box, jury box and ballot box. Only one box left.)
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To: BobL

***when I have not even one tenth of that amount and would never trust a person...no matter who with that money.***

Mt friend, my pal! I have a worm farm I would like you to invest in! ;-)


45 posted on 12/14/2008 3:40:17 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (NEVER FORGET TREASON!)
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To: BobL
Yep. Money management is not at all complicated. They should have just divided their money between treasuries of various maturities, AAA munis, and a stock index fund. All of that could have been done with about 4 or 5 mutual funds.

Keep it simple and cheap!

51 posted on 12/14/2008 3:54:49 PM PST by Ken H
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To: BobL

What’s even more astounding is those people with $5M or more could have reaped even higher profits over the last 8 years if they’d just put it into physical GOLD instead, which has outperformed all of the indexes.


61 posted on 12/14/2008 4:33:06 PM PST by Duke Phelan
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To: BobL

Actually, the returns Madoff was reporting weren’t all that big, they were just very abnormally consistent. It was regarded as a very safe and moderately high-yielding investment, not a way to chase super-high returns.


73 posted on 12/14/2008 8:34:11 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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