Posted on 07/10/2019 8:46:47 PM PDT by rintintin
In terms of scandals, the sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein has it all. Mysterious gaudy fortunes. Jet-setting debauchery. Lots of pretty girlsincluding very young girls. Sex and more sex, not necessarily legal or consensual. Add a battalion of VIPs, including billionaires, A-list celebrities, royalty and no less than two American presidents.
The only thing missing was espionage
and its not missing anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
Once one of these guys gets a reputation, a certain kind of person wants to get in quick before the market adjusts to a new kind of analysis.
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How true....I used to speculate that the ONLY investors that REALLY want to see a ‘plan’ and projected Earnings/losses are the bankers and professional lenders.
If one goes to a ‘secondary lender’ and presents a good plan they will ‘laugh’ at you but approach them with a hair brained scheme about turning their (say) 50 thou into 150 thou in a month and they fall over themselves to ‘help’.
As long as the borrower doesn’t get real greedy etc they can ‘make’ it.
Like you say, people threw money at BMadoff just to say they were dealing with BMadoff.
Like the story of one of PDJTs bankruptcies...the main lender was in so deep that if they foreclosed on DJT it would have virtually put the bank out of business but giving him some room, he eventually pulled out.
Guess where the term ‘too big to fail’ basically originated.... when the whole forest falls because you cut down one tree, you let the dying tree take the weak trees with him in order to save the majority of them, HOPING the tree will find a cure....
One American president, but the crap-weasel media keeps trying to make it two.
The author of this piece is a hysterical Never Trumper along the lines of Max Boot.
Ah, again the “Russians” and “Israel”, two bugaboos the Dims drag out when they are trying to deflect a topic from the real issues. Consider the article as a bought and paid for in-kind P.R. contribution to the Dims likely orchestrated by Billary, Inc.
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