Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by danw on Thursday September 25, 2008 @04:31PM (#315340)

Try and fix poverty, hunger, clean drinking water in a sustainable way.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by felipe on Thursday September 25, 2008 @06:44PM (#315521)

A few years ago I attended a talk by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, professor at Columbia University who was commissioned by the UN to develop a program to end worldwide poverty with sustainable, long-term initiatives -- Note this is not the standard aid, but stuff like microcredit and micro-entrepreneurship.

He traveled the world and came back with the price tag: $1 trillion. That is not to relief, but to END poverty worldwide.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by rms on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:38PM (#315572)

Sounds about right. This is something worth adding a trillion to the US Debt for.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yters on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:30PM (#315565)

What kind of guarantee did that have?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by whatusername on Thursday September 25, 2008 @07:40PM (#315576)

Probably a better one than anything that Paulson is giving!

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