could u guys give me stories besides Evelyn Adams, William Bud, and Suzanne Mullins. school project for econmomics is due monday please help me. it could be stories from the past to recent. they have to have had won millions and lost it all by being dumb and not spending money wisely. it could be any lottery in united states. thanxs!
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...don't know his name, and he may not be bankrupt, but that poor, dumb bastard in West Virgina jumps to mind.
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I watched an Oprah show a few days ago about the "Great American Debt Diet", I guess she&the financial experts that came up with the concept&'diet steps' have some tips that would be useful for you.\n\nI think this is the link: http://www.oprah.com/money/debtdiet/money_debtdiet_main.jhtml\n\nI wish you luck!\n\nGod Bless*
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A Bedtime Story...\nOnce upon a time there was this guy who was good at math and computers.  He went to school and got some degrees and worked in software and data analysis for a number of years.  He worked at one company in particular for five years.  This company was owned by friends, who treated him like family (this isn't necessarily a good thing) and he worked very hard for them, and earned a good salary doing so.  He was also miserable and irritable most of the time.  Finally, the constant stress caught up with him and he left the company.  For fourteen months, he did odd jobs and barely scraped by, driving him into fairly serious financial issues.  He lost his car, and used public transportation and his bike and his feet to get places.\n\nHe was never happier.\n\nAfter fourteen months, his friends came to him and said that things would be different.  They weren't really, and he didn't expect that, but he thought maybe he was different enough that he could manage.  Again he made good money, again he busted his rear to earn this money.  He was there about 16 months before he left again (fired this time instead of quitting.)  He simply wasn't happy spending his life serving others for nothing more than a paycheck.  \n\nThis guy hadn't learned the lesson that money does NOT equal time.  Money is useful, but the simple fact is, in one hundred years, this guy and pretty much everyone else reading this will be dead, and that money isn't going to make a damn bit of difference in that.  Were he here, this guy would applaud you for discovering that which he can't seem:  being happy for who and for where you are.  That is a gift.
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You're very funny. Obviously trying to yank our chains. That's one of the funniest things about Yahoo answers, is how people actually believe all these questions are serious.\n\nSend me half the winnings ($10 Mil) and I'll call you with the lotto numbers. Trust me, this is not a joke.>)
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I checked out that site, it looks like a scam to me. When you're looking for a job for a 15-yr-old, don't you want one of the side effects to be education about the economy? How can you get that education when it's not clear at all where the money is coming from?\n\nIf you want further information, write to that email address, but my recommendation is to find a "real" job.
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I think you should research students and debt.   I think that would be a great topic.  Talk to students who are both freshmen and seniors and find out if they are educated about financing their futures, and find out how much debt they have accumulated during their education.
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The best practical joke I pulled was on one of my friends.  I bought a prank scratch and win lottery ticket that had 3 $10 000 symbols on it.  So when I gave it to him, he scratched it, and thought he won $10,000.  He was just freaking out for about 10 minutes, and I couldn't hold in the laughter and cracked up, and then he figured out it was a prank.  Boy, was he mad at me!  Even all the kids said I was mean.  That was over a year ago and he still gets mad at me when he thinks about it.  My daughter made me promise to never play that joke again because she thought it was too mean.  I thought, and still think it was hilarious!!!
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Who writes that stuff anyway?\nWhy aren't they winning the lottery with the numbers on the back?\nWho learns Chinese from fortune cookies anyway?\n\nOn Debate team in college, we'd go to a Chinese Restaurant sometime during the tournaments, and everyone would read their fortune aloud, then all would chime in after the fortune was read, "In bed."\n\nI know this may be old hat to some, but to me in college it was "pee in my pants" funny.\n\nExample:  "You will obtain many friends and a vast fortune...."  "In bed."  LOL...for adults only....
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Argumentative??? Sure my...my father in law\nLoL...sorry...he's really getting on my nerves right now\n\nYou could approach it from the standpoint of the good that comes out of it, i.e. lottery funded educational programs, how it boosts the local economy, and so forth\n\ngood luck--hope that helps
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my ex husband was a compulsive gambler and we were struggling to pay the mortgage and there was a racing festival on ...he of course gambled everyday and lost despite my pleas for him not to...then one day he picked me up from work...grinning and i knew he'd had another bet even tho he had promised he wouldnt and that he'd won...he had and after me saying that i was disappointed that he had had another bet...he shoved 350 pounds that he had won in my face...i was so mad that i grabbed it from him opened the window and threw it out...i have never seen a man move so fast,lol...he got most of it back but it was great...also once i filled his work trouser pockets with cold leftover dinner,lol...eventually though i got the ultimate revenge ...i divorced him ;0)
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girl i just got through with that clas too. It was awful!! Im just glad that I gotta C. A C was good enough for me!! I still dont understand some of that stuff! Ecspecially those graphs. All that crap about aggreagte demand and supply and marginal propensity to save. Whatever! Who really uses this anyways? The first day of class the teacher told us there was a very low rate for passing the class. Then I have to take microeconomics since im a business major. I hate econ!
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Doug North's "Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance" will be essential to understanding where the field has gone recently.  It's much more concrete than Stiglitz' "Globalization", which, while interesting, carries a lot of opinionizing among the little bit of theory.  North is considered the premier authority on institutions in the academic world today.  I've also attached a reading list from one of the recent events in the field, and it's pretty comprehensive.\n\nThose should keep you busy for a while.  :)
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I have. I made a good chunk of money. However...VERY stressful...but overall pretty fun!
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well if you are willing to do some reading, just get stuck into these for a couple of days, hope they are of any help, hope things work out you sound decent what's up with those GW Bush  lot:\n\nhttp://finance.ebookorama.com/\nhttp://credit-cards.ebookorama.com/
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My thesis is on graduated retirement programs. There's a suggestion for a topic.\n\n(I agree though, if you're looking to buy one, tsk tsk - some of us are working hard on ours! No fair!)
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Take a look at the recent Readers Digest.  They report on scammers who buy property real cheap from people in financial trouble.  They told of this one family who was in danger of foreclosure and these "really nice people" had them sign a bunch of refinance papers with blanks on the form ("we'll fill them in for you later").  Even though they had a bunch of money in equity it turns out that they sold out their house.  The scammers then sold it to someone else as rental property, who then evicted them because the scammers failed to tell them that they were now supposed to pay rent to the new owner--naturally, not knowing, they hadn't paid rent.  Then the "nice people" were gone, with the profits.  I wouldn't touch that "opportunity" at all.
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I read the original post. I read the original 4 answers. I'm confused.  I didn't see smartass remarks (well, one was borderline), what I see is a question that cannot be answered in this forum as asked.  There are too many variables to consider.  BTW, before you say I'm jealous, let me just ask:  Jealous of what? YOU haven't won anything, and you are trying to mooch of your brother in law.