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The story of Alan Turing and his plan for securing his wealth comes to mind: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft/saft-on-wealth-learning-from-turin
by arethuza 6y ago
The story of Alan Turing and his plan for securing his wealth comes to mind:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft/saft-on-wealth-learning-from-turings-silver-hoard-idUSKCN0UY2OC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft/saft-on-weal...
- everybodyknows 6y agoFascinating. >perhaps fearful of confiscation by a successful enemy or a government tax on capital, a plan that was mooted in Britain in 1920 ... Hard asset confiscation, in the US case of gold, has been mooted, passed into law, and enforced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
- SilasX 6y agoWow that's sad. So he correctly knew to buy silver, but lost it because of the complexity of where he hit all the different pieces of the collection?