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2 Japanese carrying $134 bil worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy
Japan Today ^
| Thursday 11th June, 06:18 AM JST
| JapanToday
Posted on 06/10/2009 10:45:08 PM PDT by Xenophon450
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To: Xenophon450
$134 billion? WOW. As they say, a billion here and a billion there and soon we’re talking about real money. THAT is real money.
To: Xenophon450
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:46:44 PM PDT
by
pissant
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To: Xenophon450
Ummmm...That’s kinda a lot of money...
....a least it was before O’s Big G Giveaway Show.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:47:36 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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*Ping!*
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:48:27 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: Xenophon450
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:48:36 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
To: Xenophon450
This is an astounding amount of money. Very few people have this kind of liquidity. It should be fairly easy to figure out who owns the dough. I’ll bet the 2 Japanese (if they really are Japanese) are just the legs on this deal. Wow! Very strange.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:49:15 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Xenophon450
Sounds like one of those big stories that will be ignored by our lame domestic media outlets in favor of something important like rampant sexting in schools.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:49:34 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Xenophon450; TigerLikesRooster
Man O man O man we got anonymous, undistinguished folks running around with a hundred billion dollars in bonds, not representatives of the government or foreign banks or the IMF...
We are in serious, deep doo. Seriously deep.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:49:39 PM PDT
by
djf
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To: Xenophon450
Could this be some of the missing TARP money
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:50:09 PM PDT
by
bzybee
To: Xenophon450
Better check the math on this one. $1.34 billion would be a huge amount for any individual to have.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:50:21 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: djf
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:50:49 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: April Lexington
Indeed, past 100 billion I can only see the holder being another nation. Why take such risk with 100+ billion? Why not just hire Blackwater or Brinks or some other group to transport it? The fee would be minuscule.
To: April Lexington
Just the denominations they mention works out to $124.5 billion. Looks correct.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:53:01 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Marie2
They were trying to cash them out or do a forex transaction without catching any publicity.
Of course they could be counterfeit, but I kinda doubt that.
The dollar is collapsing as we speak.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:53:16 PM PDT
by
djf
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To: Marie2
Ditto. Who could have that much in loose US bonds. Those things are numbered, insured and tracked. Either the math is way off or something big just happened...
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:53:29 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Xenophon450
Who’s gonna go the across border and declare that they’re carrying $34 billion on them??
I’ll bet this wasn’t the first time that they’ve done this...
To: SpaceBar
Go pull out the Don Johnson episode from ten years ago in Bavaria. Similar type situation. Don got caught big-time with several billion in notes. There were alot of questions and I think he had to finger a number of big-names in California who were using him (and a number of entertainers) as transport vehicles back and forth to Switzerland.
Its amusing how this paper note business works. You merely swap property or items of value for the notes, and then hide them in vaults of countries way out of sight. You take bribes and settle disputes with “invisible money”.
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:55:59 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Xenophon450
Bonds usually exist in electronic form. Very few real good old fashioned paper bonds floating around. Bearer bonds are long gone and normal bonds have serial numbers, etc. Especially in that quantity. Maybe forgeries. Maybe a last ditch effort for some incredibly wealthy person to sprint to Switzerland. This is either kooky or scary!
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posted on
06/10/2009 10:56:37 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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