[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:46:33PM -0400, James M. Ray wrote: > >http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=hke/headlines/010802/asia/afp/World_s_largest_bank_to_write-off_10_billion_dollars_of_bad_debt.html > > > Apologies for this awful-looking URL, but I thought

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

On 2 Aug 2001, at 12:35, Jeff Fitzmyers wrote: > So lumping private and corporate debt together (the people will pay > anyway) means each American owes about 100,000 USD. Not as bad as I > thought ;) Makes me wonder if 27 trillion is low balling? I am almost certain the 27 trllions number is rig

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

The US Census suggests the current USA population is about 285,000,000 http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock So lumping private and corporate debt together (the people will pay anyway) means each American owes about 100,000 USD. Not as bad as I thought ;) Makes me wonder if 27 trillion is low b

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

JMR wrote: | that large. Ten billion dollars, according to the article, is something like | 1,200 billion yen. One of you can probably illustrate this in some way I can | grasp (level teaspoons-full of water in an Olympic size swimming pool?). That's a lot of swimming pools worth of teaspoonfulls

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

James, $10B can be imagined as 1,000,000 (ONE MILLION) bank rolls, each of $10,000 (100 bank notes of $100 each). Can your largest room in your house admit so many bank rolls of bank notes? :-) Probably, yes. Your room can admit $10 BILLION USD. :-) So that seems not so much money there... :-) O

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

On 2 Aug 2001, at 13:46, James M. Ray wrote: > Apologies for this awful-looking URL, but I thought it might interest > those here. A billion is a thousand-million, and I have trouble > imagining numbers that large. How about imagining the 27 trillions of debts owed by the US, its people and co

[e-gold-list] World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=hke/headlines/010802/asia/afp/World_s_largest_bank_to_write-off_10_billion_dollars_of_bad_debt.html Apologies for this awful-looking URL, but I thought it might interest those here. A billion is a thousand-million, and I ha

[e-gold-list] Re: World's largest bank to write-off $10 billion(!) bad debt

> that large. Ten billion dollars, according to the article, is something like > Thanks if you can, a gram of e-gold goes to the best/funniest illustration. James, If you were to dutch auction off every cell in your body in an ebay auction - and received a bid of 1/5 gram of e-gold for each ce

[e-gold-list] RE: Scam Spam: (was re: Q: How do I pan 4 e-gold?)

Why are you forwarding this here? You already modified the subject line indicating you believe it to be a scam, so why promote it? Ian Green http://two-cents-worth.com/?107242 > -Original Message- > From: R. A. Hettinga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 9:18 PM

[e-gold-list] Re: Paypal

>Hi, > >Sorry that it isn't the right group for such a question, but... > >Is there anybody using the Paypal "instant notification", for online >selling ? We would need some information that we can't get by >Paypal (48 hours seem not enough for their support to reply !) I would recomme

[e-gold-list] RE: HYIP scams?

> -Original Message- > From: Destiny Worldwide Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 4:36 AM > To: e-gold Discussion > Subject: [e-gold-list] HYIP scams? > I will agree that 90%+ of HYIP'S are outright scams and ponzi schemes. > However, to be fair, I need to poi

[e-gold-list] Re: Proportion of HYIP scam to legitimate transactions

> -Original Message- > From: Julian Dibbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 3:21 PM > To: e-gold Discussion > Subject: [e-gold-list] Re: Proportion of HYIP scam to legitimate > transactions > Over 300 schemes offering guaranteed high-yield returns on e-gold > inve

[e-gold-list] Scam Spam: (was re: Q: How do I pan 4 e-gold?)

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[e-gold-list] Destiny Worldwide website

While I considered the HYIP so-called article to be trash, I must say there is a lot of thought-provoking stuff linked from the financialtools page! > -Original Message- > From: Destiny Worldwide Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 4:36 AM > To: e-gold Discussio

[e-gold-list] Paypal

Hi, Sorry that it isn't the right group for such a question, but... Is there anybody using the Paypal "instant notification", for online selling ? We would need some information that we can't get by Paypal (48 hours seem not enough for their support to reply !) Thanks, MC -- Mari