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dixiegrrrrl

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6. It's like Monopoly money isn't it?

Reply to golfguru (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 11:52 AM

Sep 2014

The money has less and less value every day.

Besides which, all those billions are based on the supposed value of other things...stocks, bonds, derivatives, etc.

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