$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by lazide on Saturday April 12, 2025 @06:11AM (#43663042)

I remember when everyone said the Euro was the new reserve currency - even a Bond film used it as a plot point.

Came to nothing.

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by radicalbyte on Saturday April 12, 2025 @06:38AM (#43663195)

It was US policy to actively work against that and it was an acceptable deal for us given that we've been friends and allies forever. Now Trump has turned the US into our heroin-addict sibling we can no longer rely on them.

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by lazide on Saturday April 12, 2025 @08:21AM (#43663761)

So they’re going to…. Be nicer now? Less crazy?

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday April 12, 2025 @06:31AM (#43663145)

But things can change no? Like the country whose currency we use becoming untrustworthy. Do you think the world watched the first trump presidency and thought to do nothing?

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by EasyMark on Sunday April 13, 2025 @02:35PM (#43674843)

But at that point in time the USA wasn't run by a clown show of grifting circus performers.

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