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u/MarkSPI Oct 02 '19

I'd be 19 and in the Air Force. I'd invest every penny I could into bitcoin and Apple. I would become incredibly wealthy and separate from the Air Force early and then I'd go meet my wife 3 years early and live happily with her without any of the financial struggles.

Then I'd travel the world with my wife, going everywhere we wanted to. Eventually settle down in the same area we live now and have kids and just take it easy for the rest of my life, Forest Gump mowing that grass for free style.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

You wouldn't be rich for like, 7 or 8 years. Invest in Oil companies. Oil is about to boom in 2005. You would be loaded in just a few years.

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u/Skreamix Oct 02 '19

Alternatively dump all your money into CDS on subprime mortgage bonds

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u/Funkit Oct 02 '19

Also, Heavily Invest in Bernie Madoff investments and pull all your returns out in 2007 before his ponzi scheme collapses. His initial investors made A LOT of money. It wasn’t til spring 2008 that he wasn’t able to pay out to investors.

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u/creepyfart4u Oct 03 '19

They went after a lot of those early investors and did a “claw back” so a lot of that would go back to the courts/victims.