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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Tommaso who wrote (64032)6/18/2006 2:39:39 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
That story can be found here:

floridahistory.org

I remembered most of it correctly, except it was $300,000, which would be well over $3,000,000 now. And the original $1,700 would have been worth maybe $20,000.



To: Tommaso who wrote (64032)6/18/2006 9:50:13 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
If I had been the old man, I would've sold at $10000 and thought I was a genius. So maybe the son did the old man a favor.<g>