"I have magic powers to double your money" is exactly the sort of banks use to promote their mutual funds and whatnot.
I've never had a bank promote their mutual funds to me that way.
A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
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#52Reminds me of a great (now-deleted) tweet I saw a few years ago: "Everything is legal if you scale it up." Convert the cash to assets, then convert the assets to political clout---at that point the cash heist is in the rear-view mirror...
All criminal justice above street level is politics.
Insider trading is legal for members of Congress.
How did Pelosi get rich? How did the Clintons? Looking back and just Mena and Whitewater makes you realize how institutionalized corruption is in the US. If you are protected politically, you can get away with murder.
Gun running? Drugs? Slavery?
Re: A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The examples that came to my mind when I first saw that tweet were: Napster/Youtube (unauthorized content sharing scaled up to such a degree that the media industry had to shift to streaming business models), Uber, the ongoing US legalization of marijuana (too much of the population uses it for abolition to be effective).
Cryptocurrency
I really don't see the relevance.
Re: A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
#54Reminds me of a great (now-deleted) tweet I saw a few years ago: "Everything is legal if you scale it up." Convert the cash to assets, then convert the assets to political clout---at that point the cash heist is in the rear-view mirror...
Somewhat related quote:
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
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#56> Sissoko has never faced justice. In his absence, a Dubai court sentenced him to three years for fraud and practis[sic]ing magic.
Well that's good. We really can't have people going around practicing magic, who knows what could come of it.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't see the relevance.
Most states don't allow other currencies.
The number of states that do not allow other currencies is vanishingly small. You can have Dollars, Euros, Yen and whatever else your heart desires without any kind of penalty in most places of the world.
Re: A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
#58> Sissoko has never faced justice. In his absence, a Dubai court sentenced him to three years for fraud and practis[sic]ing magic. Well that's good. We really can't have people going around practicing magic, who knows what could come of it.
> practis[sic]ing magic.
You don't need to add [sic] when it's correct (this is a British news site).
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#59Re: A man who got away with $242M using ‘black magic’
#60> Sissoko has never faced justice. In his absence, a Dubai court sentenced him to three years for fraud and practis[sic]ing magic. Well that's good. We really can't have people going around practicing magic, who knows what could come of it.
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