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1 posted on 09/22/2014 4:15:06 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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The wealthy are still traumatized by the financial crisis in 2009, when many wealthy families were scrambling for cash, he said.

Really?

I believe in capitalism, but their "plight" does not compare to the million who were laid off and lost their jobs.

What's more, many wealthy families missed out on the big financial-market rallies in 2012 and 2013 and feel like they missed the best chance to invest.

Again, this Stock Market is nothing but hot air, created by Fed pumping. The Fed is now leveraged almost 80-1.

I feel like we are heading for an economic disaster of Biblical proportions.

2 posted on 09/22/2014 4:17:57 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Uhm...hording? I have about 25% of my net worth in cash. I have no idea what to invest it in. Am I hording? What should I do with it? Buy savings bonds? (Gag, choke!) Give it to President Obama, because, after all, at some point I’ve made enough?


4 posted on 09/22/2014 4:21:19 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SkyPilot

I hoard canned beans, and they hoard millions of dollars of cash.


5 posted on 09/22/2014 4:24:07 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: SkyPilot

Err, dude. Billionaires do that sort of thing. That’s why they’re billionaires.


8 posted on 09/22/2014 4:26:44 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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Only 19% of their net worth in cash? That is not very much at all given where the stock market is.


10 posted on 09/22/2014 4:35:58 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: SkyPilot

It’s all paper and its bleeding out fast.


11 posted on 09/22/2014 4:37:35 PM PDT by mylife
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So having liquid assets is now hording? If they were invested in bonds would they be hording bonds? Are they hording all the best German cars too?

Now if it were said that Michael Moore was hording calories or that Sheila Jackson Lee was hording ignorance that might make some sense, but still there is plenty of ignorance to go around - I mean look at MSNBC.

13 posted on 09/22/2014 4:43:13 PM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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Billionaires are holding mountains of cash,

I have about $200 in quarters in a plastic jar. If I can just save enough of them, I'll be one of those billionaires.........

19 posted on 09/22/2014 4:50:47 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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To: SkyPilot

I don’t blame them.


20 posted on 09/22/2014 4:51:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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FYI
44 posted on 09/22/2014 5:18:12 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: SkyPilot

Obviously these billionaires know nothing about the economy which is booming like dynamite... or something


46 posted on 09/22/2014 5:24:10 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SkyPilot
Ooooooo...$600 million each.

There's only 403 billionaires in the US.

403 x 600 million equals 241.8 billion.

What is that? 2 weeks of the federal budget.

47 posted on 09/22/2014 5:26:57 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Hoarders, wreckers and counter-revolutionaries must be ground into dust!!!!


54 posted on 09/22/2014 5:37:02 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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They just waiting for a chance to buy something Obama can’t screw up. Given his refusal to recognize the constitutional limits on his authority and a propensity to screw up everything he touches, that means waiting until he’s out of office.


55 posted on 09/22/2014 5:40:29 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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They'll be Zimbabwe Trillionaires before too long.

Got skills? Land? Crops? Critters? Water? Lots of ammo to hold onto the aforementioned? The ancient measures of wealth may come back into vogue.

60 posted on 09/22/2014 5:50:03 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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Hording cash? If things get really nasty cash is the last thing you would want. Gold, Diamonds and such are better. Guns and bullets are best.

CC


66 posted on 09/22/2014 6:15:06 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: SkyPilot

Despite the picture, where does it say they are holding literal paper money?

They aren’t. By cash they mean liquid “cash” as in immediately available for access. Like your checking or regular savings account. As opposed to being tied up an asset that has to be traded or sold to acquire money..

I really don’t think this piece is saying that the rich have giant vaults full of paper money, like Scrooge McDuck or Richie Rich


80 posted on 09/22/2014 7:53:44 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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