sorry. I usually avoid the language of hype. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Shane Mage<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > > BTW, I'd bet that the current bezzle is in the trillions of dollars. > We shouldn't let Madoff distract us from attending to those other > scamsters. > > Trillions? I would think that all the multi-billion fortunes in the world > (most of which derive from ordinary exploitation, not scams) don't sum to > within an order of magnitude of that. And, after the Madoff family fortune > and the "repayments" to early pyramid-club members are washed out, I suspect > the actual total won't come very close to the headline figure--maybe more > like a 20-30% supplement to the amount given officially to Israel by the US. > Shane Mage > > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > > kindling in measures and going out in measures." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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