• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      By that logic he’s not a trillionaire at all. They only sold 4% of the company for some 68 billion USD. A trillion dollars was never liquidated.

      Edit: 4.3% and 75 billion are the correct numbers.

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          6 days ago

          Yeah sure I also think that he is a trillionare at the moment. I was just trying to show that it’s absurd to say he has the money even if the stock price falls because he’s already liquidated it.

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            6 days ago

            Almost all of them. That’s how the Epstein class fund their lifestyles, they borrow against their stocks. This is why the Epstein class always want low interest rates; it is not about mortgages, at least not the kind where someone is homeless because they missed a payment.

            https://taxproject.org/carried-interest/