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Monopoly gives way to $quander

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jabailo

Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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Location: Kent (East Hill), WA

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject: Monopoly gives way to $quander

For many years, we've been told "greed is good" because it makes us wealthy and also helps the economy.

Now we find out, not only does it wreck the economy, but it bankrupts us!

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Some of the 70-year-old manager’s once-wealthy investors are now destitute and unsure how they’ll pay their rent, said two New York lawyers representing dozens of individual clients who live in New York and Florida.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alHD.ggaCDj0&refer=home

Therefore, maybe we should put our monopoly boards on the shelf, and rummage in the closet for $quander:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/30970

An interesting word, whose meaning, besides the well known, has an obsolete one

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/squander

to scatter

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which could be what the formerly rich are doing -- scattering the seeds of the next economy...

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