> gMoney wrote: > You kinda lost me here.......we get rich, then we pay for other people's > boats....? >
No, the people who unethically, but legally, got rich did so with your tax dollars. In other words, you're paying for their boats. But this "opportunity" is open to anyone with a resume to start a hedge fund. Here's how you do it: Let's say you and I each put $50,000 into our new Hedge Fund. That would, under current regs, allow us to borrow $7,000,000. Now we're a $7M hedge fund. Next we tell every CDS desk we're selling swaps. With $7M we could sell about $100,000,000 in protection and we'd take in about $5,000,000 per year. Within 1 week we're millionaires. In fact we each now have $2.5M and we only have to pay capital gains tax rates so 15% or less. Even if our little Hedge Fund goes bust, no problem, since it's all on borrowed money. Tax payers will take the hit and we're millionaires. That's basically what's been going on, except it's not us that did it. So when you write your next tax check it'll be for the people who did. They borrowed money, laundered it into an asset, and when the loans went bust walked away leaving you the tax payer with the bill. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283092 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
