truth bombs

Drugs are the best, dudes. FACT.

http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mohammed-islam-stock-trading/

This reminded me of an old joke about robbing banks because that’s where the money is. Damir grinned. “My father has a quote,” he said. “It’s really dope: ‘You can rob a bank with a gun, but you can rob the whole world with a bank.’ ”

Like Belfort, Mo started with penny stocks. A cousin showed him how to trade. He loved the feeling of risk—the way his hand shook making the trade—but he swore it off after losing a chunk of the money he’d made tutoring. “I didn’t have the balls for it,” he said. He was 9.

“My father has a quote,” he said. “It’s really dope: ‘You can rob a bank with a gun, but you can rob the whole world with a bank.’ ”

Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.

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lolsotruthbombs

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/12/15/high_school_investor_didn_t_make_72_million_picking_stocks_after_all.html

my goodness

well i never

the true mystery is why ny magazine thought a kid making millions in the stock market was a thing worthy of love

I'll get encyclopedia brown on that one

In hindsight, it is a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on Jukt Micronics stock.

lol

It's a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on virtually anything starting with the kind of seed money a regular kid from queens would probably have to play with. Like that sounds like it would have to be by far the most successful trading in history.

yes the whole thing was absurd

you'd have to be like seth rogen in undeclared good

I do like how his parents just let him embarrass himself as they quietly disowned him in the background, though

I don't know if you could get that kind of return if you traveled back in time.

You could

time travel wld do it

kid shdve claimed to be a time traveler that really wldve been something to love about ny

best bagels. best space-time fabric manipulators. best pastrami sandwiches. what's not to love? i <3 NY.

It's a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on virtually anything starting with the kind of seed money a regular kid from queens would probably have to play with. Like that sounds like it would have to be by far the most successful trading in history.

― man alive, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:11 PM (2 hours ago)

notttt really. i mean obv the reporters should have done a better job but as a reader it's not outside the realm of possibility. kid goes to stuyvesant, has super-rich parents, been playing with stocks since he was 9, it's believable

I thought they reported that the parents weren't super-rich, though.

This reminded me of an old joke about robbing banks because that’s where the money is. Damir grinned. “My father has a quote,” he said. “It’s really dope: ‘You can rob a bank with a gun, but you can rob the whole world with a bank.’ ”

oh maybe they did

not that it's not far fetched, it's just the kind of thing where you're like "ok, if this were to happen it would be some asshole stuy kid with really rich parents". my girlfriend went to stuy and she rolled her eyes when she heard about this and was like "of course"

http://underdesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bankrobworld.jpg?w=700&h=345

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http://thewoodchips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Give-A-Man-A-Gun-r12-450.jpg

https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/give-a-man-a-gun-and-he-can-rob-a-bank-give-a-man-a-bank-and-he-can-rob-the-world-white-house-this-way-homeless-people.jpg

~some lying ass kids dad

note to self don't give a man a bank

helen hunt was doing so well

now she prbly makes about $66k as a credit officer I hope she has good bennies

give a gun a bank who knows how much robbing it'll do

and paul reiser is the loan officer of that bank

my dad said, "i gave a bank to rob. he meant the world to me"

you don't understand, bank is the name of my dog

a bankrupt bank robber robs a bank with a gun; a gunner banks rob and runs

-- robin banks

http://www.robinbanks.co.za/

His provocative suggestion is that the authorities would find a self-consciously simulated (i.e. not real) bank robbery more dangerous than the "real" thing. The latter merely transgresses the law of property, which in turn reaffirms the ediface of the criminal justice system. The simulated robbery, however, makes visible the law of simulation; it exposes the absence of a basic reality and the constructed nature of the hyperreal.

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I'm glad I've been to Cuba multiple times before the Starbucks and whatnot. I wish there was a middle ground between people having basic freedoms and not being rampaged by lots of Wal Marts.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A bit simply put, perhaps, but on point

just spitballin here but maybe cuba could be turned into a museum for americans disgusted at their economic system to tour multiple times

btw idk how starbucks became the symbol for the excesses of american capitalism but its inadequate to the point that it makes you think maybe people are just complaining about their consumer options

I've seen one Walmart in my life. Until you get to about $15k GDP per capita most multi-nationals dgaf.

walmart is fwiw a much better symbol of the problems w 21st century capitalism, anyway i heard a similar sentiment as van horns expressed multiple times on twitter today and it comes off mostly as a complaint about a big store ruining the view