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Jack's Smirking Revenge

Jack's Smirking Revenge

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the fifteen richest fictional characters:

1. Smaug, The Hobbit ($62 billion)
2. Flintheart Glomgold, Uncle Scrooge ($51.9 billion)
3. Carlisle Cullen, The Twilight Saga ($36.3 billion)
4. Jed Clampett, The Beverly Hillbillies ($9.8 billion)
5. Tony Stark, Iron Man ($9.3 billion)
6. Richie Rich, Richie Rich ($8.9 billion)
7. Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane ($8.3 billion)
8. Bruce Wayne, Batman ($6.9 billion)
9. Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump ($5.7 billion)
10. Mr. Monopoly, Monopoly ($2.5 billion)
11. Lisbeth Salander, the Millennium series ($2.4 billion)
12. Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire ($2.1 billion)
13. C. Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons ($1.3 billion)
14. Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey ($1.1 billion)
15. Jo Bennett, The Office ($1 billion)
 
Those numbers can't be inflation adjusted, not accurate.

Fort Knox holds more than $100 billion in gold. Smaug must possess near to an equivalent capacity in gold, if not higher. Tony Stark is a war profiteer with a stranglehold on the market. To suggest his fortune is a mere $9 billion when the United States government spent more than $3 trillion on the Iraq and Afghan wars alone can't be an accurate estimate. Likewise, defense contracts for the F-35 and F-22 are near to being in excess of $1 trillion. There's no way Stark could be so poor in a trillion dollar war industry.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the telecommunications guy from Mexico whose name I can't remember are all in the $30 billion and up range, last I saw.

There's no way Batman and Tywin Lannister are poorer than Bill Gates.
 
i did think a lot of the figures seemed a long way out, particularly tony stark and bruce wayne. i thought mr burns was worth a lot more than that too
 
Cali didn't tell you I like to flatter myself as being a borderline wall street guy?

Cali must be slipping.

There's one more thing you can "troll" me about, I guess. :grin:
 
Frank Fontaine said:
Isn't all stock trading handled by computers now, not guys on the floor like Gordon Gecko
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A large proportion of trading volume is HFT(high frequency trading) implemented by computers. Yeah, trading pits have largely been replaced by mathematicians who write various forms of arbitrage algorithms, etc. HFT is lucrative enough to be worth something like $4 billion within a quarter(3 month period) to the investment wing of some banks. But, there are still people who trade and do it fairly lucratively. http://fool.com offers some services revolving around this I've been watching for awhile now. They make money. Undoubtedly there are others who operate in the green.

Its kind of pointless to talk about considering I don't actively trade at the moment & haven't really been in the market. I'm doing other things... really.. :ohshit:

Close to a year ago, I did tell Cali's sister I was into it & I mentioned how quants and HFT have changed the game.

I would expect 5 types of trolling on this by now. :elmo:

Must be getting slow in your old age.
 
im confused

you were a prisoner yesterday and are posting today, as a prisoner

is that because of some vb shop name color thing you are you 1337 H4X? :gmonster:
 
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