How much money can you get into a briefcase? At least $134 billion.

Started by Crazy_Ivan80, June 12, 2009, 10:27:41 AM

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Crazy_Ivan80

June 12, 2009, 10:27:41 AM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,630158,00.html

Imagine that.
And don't expect the Italians to spend it on something useful. It'll probably go to Berlusconi's next facelift or so. :D

Syt

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June 12, 2009, 10:29:33 AM
Damn you for posting it a minute earlier!

I have newstext, though. :raspberry:
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Brazen

#2
June 12, 2009, 10:30:51 AM
What's the German for Zeitgeist?

jimmy olsen

#3
June 12, 2009, 10:31:22 AM
Wow, that's crazy. I wonder what they were going to do with the money?
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Jaron

#5
June 12, 2009, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:31:22 AM
Wow, that's crazy. I wonder what they were going to do with the money?

anime
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Crazy_Ivan80

#6
June 12, 2009, 10:41:38 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 12, 2009, 10:29:33 AM
Damn you for posting it a minute earlier!

I have newstext, though. :raspberry:

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I have the cooler title though :p

jimmy olsen

#7
June 12, 2009, 10:46:29 AM
Quote from: Jaron on June 12, 2009, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:31:22 AM
Wow, that's crazy. I wonder what they were going to do with the money?

anime
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Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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HVC

#8
June 12, 2009, 10:48:39 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:46:29 AM
Quote from: Jaron on June 12, 2009, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:31:22 AM
Wow, that's crazy. I wonder what they were going to do with the money?

anime
Buy it or make it?
Pay to have it all burned.
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June 12, 2009, 10:50:46 AM
Quote from: HVC on June 12, 2009, 10:48:39 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:46:29 AM
Quote from: Jaron on June 12, 2009, 10:36:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 12, 2009, 10:31:22 AM
Wow, that's crazy. I wonder what they were going to do with the money?

anime
Buy it or make it?
Pay to have it all burned.
I actually almost put that down as a third option, but the culprits are Japanese so it wouldn't make sense.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Zanza

#10
June 12, 2009, 11:09:13 AM
If it is real and not fake money, you have to wonder whose money it is. If Italy keeps 40% of the sum, someone is short 50 billion.

DGuller

#11
June 12, 2009, 11:13:13 AM
There is something very bizarre in this story, though I can't quite put my finger on it.

jimmy olsen

#12
June 12, 2009, 11:15:11 AM
Quote from: DGuller on June 12, 2009, 11:13:13 AM
There is something very bizarre in this story, though I can't quite put my finger on it.
This story is really a cover for the Italians to issue counterfeit bonds. :yes:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Grey Fox

#13
June 12, 2009, 11:16:39 AM
Quote from: DGuller on June 12, 2009, 11:13:13 AM
There is something very bizarre in this story, though I can't quite put my finger on it.

No one seems to know where they fond 134 billion worth of Bonds?
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alfred russel

#14
June 12, 2009, 11:20:52 AM
Quote from: Zanza2 on June 12, 2009, 11:09:13 AM
If it is real and not fake money, you have to wonder whose money it is. If Italy keeps 40% of the sum, someone is short 50 billion.

Why would you counterfeit such large bonds? I can't go to my local branch and cash $500 million bonds and leave before they figure out they are fake.

But then that is also more money than anyone in the world has, so it probably isn't a person either. Maybe a sketchy country trying to get its funds into Swiss accounts? Still, that is so much money there are only a few countries that could be.
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