D Billion is the new million Done 1.7

Wonk was catching up on his reading on the HNMNBie News Network, when he saw a well-written CS Monitor piece with the thesis “A billionaire is the new millionaire.” The idea, new to our aspiring business man Wonk, is hardly novel. Even a decade ago, pundits claimed you had to have tens of millions to taste, to experience, live, the life of a millionaire at the turn of the century, (the previous gilded age). Not even close! Even with a billion dollars, a thousand million, a staggering sum, there are hard limits to what it buys. Money doesn’t buy everything, especially if you haven’t prepared the ground in advance to spend it.

HNN is the fastest growing news reporting organization worldwide. As Yolanda and Angelica are trying to shepherd the movement underground, this is an outie expression in an innie nation. Their mesh based business model sets them apart. They were the first to charge by the story, online, or sneakernet offline, read the thumbnails for free, if you want more, we charge your account. They proudly accept H Coin, but if you haven’t signed onto the currency, H CoinXchange will gladly convert to and from all major credit and debit cards.

Next up for Wonk, an update on the latest shakeout in Saudi Arabia, in this case, the thumbnail was good enough.

Prince Alweed bin Tajmal, billionaire Saudi investor, with holdings in Tellurian, Scoot, and Citigroup, has been arrested, hung upside down, and beaten. He is not expected to survive as he has been under treatment for high blood pressure.

He was approached 7 years about forming a coalition with other Middle Eastern billionaires, the proposed Blue Crescent, but turned them down saying he would go it alone, and that is exactly what happened.


Bummer for you Wonk thought, shouldn’t have listened to that xanthippe wife of yours. Small wonder Angelica, Gloria, Gizmo, Traveler and Yolanda try so hard to leave as little signature as possible; don’t let your ass break the surface of the water when you swim, this ain’t amateur hour.

India released a national tender offer, 600 billion rupees in bonds, to keep the government solvent until March. In other news, another 56,000 layoffs in the tech industry added to the misery of lower level workers, many replaced by automation.

Wow, by some measures India had recently become the world’s 3rd largest economy. Sigh, the problems of the super-rich, having to release corporate bonds to finance that high rise in Mumbai. Wonk was too young to remember the Sunday comic, Richie Rich, the poor little rich boy, born after the era of thick newspapers on Sunday with color comic strips. In fact, unless you understood the way Wonk’s mind

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