(1) Register MSFT corporate in the Bahamas, controlled by two companies, one in Mauritius and the other in France
(2) Establish corporate HQ in cyber space, with proxy servers located all around the world and on two geostationary satellites (Iridium has some low earth orbit ones that can be adapted to act as proxy satellites)
(3) Locate one gold vault in Panama, purchase the country financed by a gold-backed bond issue
(4) Locate another next to the Titanic
(5) Locate the third on the moon, and many others in hard to get to places
(6) Do not disclose amount of gold stored at each location
(7) but contract to buy all gold production/recovery in excess of demand, when priced at the value of standard basket of goods and services
(8) Hire out the defense job of certain storage locations to a combination of the French Foreign Legion, Russian commandos, Ghurka rangers and 50 million Shaolin temple trained Hunan peasant rebels, and pay them in MSFT options, backed of course, by e-gold, making sure to store minimum gold in these same locations
(9)Purchase a call option on S.Africa, Australia and Canada mining assets
(10) Making sure to employ all top-10 of the US and UK law firms and all top-10 of the world's investment banks (making sure their analysts know which side the butter is on)
(11) Spend some R&D budget co-opting hedge fund crowd to speculate against every paper currency
(12) Spend some marketing budget on relocating a bunch of properly outfitted Iraqis and Afghanis to Cuba to keep Sam busy; relocate Palestinians to Pakistan, and Columbians to West Bank;
(13) Spend some consulting budget to have the proper authorities in New Jersey, Italy and Russia print look-alike Japanese Yen (it's phony already, so they won't mind), Chinese Yuan (so much already, a bit more will not matter), and Euros (they need help with meeting demand, so help) to encourage adoption of e-gold
(14) Turn two properly motivated Senators and 10 similarly motivated House of Reps to hog tie the governing process in the US.
Did I miss a trick?
Oops, and yes, buy CNBC and CNN.
:0) Chugs, Jay |