An old post of his from 2009 tells the story of the guys arrested for smuggling $134 billion in bearer bonds in a false-bottomed suitcase. Anyone know what the outcome was in the end?
Scott Sumner asked me to post some graphs of data I’d mentioned to him, and disinterring my old blog for a post was the simplest way to do it. One-time thing was the intent.
But now you’re making me feel obligated. So maybe …. 🙂
As to the “$134 billion in bearer bonds”, that story disappeared *amazingly* from sight. My bet is it was just a scam … but it really looks like somebody wanted that story buried deep and succeeded in planting it 12 feet under.
I mean, even if it was a total scam, wouldn’t “$134 billion of bearer bonds in a false bottom suitcase” be a story that would reported everywhere just for the off-beat entertainment value of it? “You’ve heard of scams, well how about a *$134 billion* scam…”
Why bury news of a scam? Who could possibly be scammed for even a small percentage of $134 billion? … Very bizarre.
Hey, maybe I’ve got something to get back blogging about… 🙂
An old post of his from 2009 tells the story of the guys arrested for smuggling $134 billion in bearer bonds in a false-bottomed suitcase. Anyone know what the outcome was in the end?
Thanks for the kind words Tim.
But I am? I didn’t think so!
Scott Sumner asked me to post some graphs of data I’d mentioned to him, and disinterring my old blog for a post was the simplest way to do it. One-time thing was the intent.
But now you’re making me feel obligated. So maybe …. 🙂
As to the “$134 billion in bearer bonds”, that story disappeared *amazingly* from sight. My bet is it was just a scam … but it really looks like somebody wanted that story buried deep and succeeded in planting it 12 feet under.
I mean, even if it was a total scam, wouldn’t “$134 billion of bearer bonds in a false bottom suitcase” be a story that would reported everywhere just for the off-beat entertainment value of it? “You’ve heard of scams, well how about a *$134 billion* scam…”
Why bury news of a scam? Who could possibly be scammed for even a small percentage of $134 billion? … Very bizarre.
Hey, maybe I’ve got something to get back blogging about… 🙂