On Friday, October 23, 2020, 08:37:30 PM PDT, grarpamp
   <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

   On 10/22/20, grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   > Biden Crime Family
   [2]https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/KVBJHB.pdf
   [3]https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22/report-on-biden-activities-
   with-china/
   Report on Biden Activities with China
   Posted on October 22, 2020
   [snip]
   >According to Hunter’s attorney, he did not invest his $400,000 in the
   company until 2017. Even assuming the veracity of this statement, this
   raises a major problem. Founded in 2013, the firm had large amounts of
   revenue and assets under management by 2017. In other words, his
   $400,000 stake would have already been worth far more than what he
   paid for it. This paltry $400,000 investment worth more than $50
   million now would have realized a gain of more than 12,400% in three
   years.
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   Jim Bell's comment:
   I seem to recall that Bill and Hillary Clinton had a similar thing
   going on, a $1,000 investment that turned into $100,000 relatively
   shortly.  I just found this:
   [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controv
   ersy
   My vague understanding about 'futures' and/or 'options' is that it is
   easy to fake gains in order to give somebody something.    I think the
   idea is that a broker makes two 'opposite'  futures transactions, in a
   trade that is supposed to change value greatly.  It doesn't matter in
   which direction the commodity goes, one side wins big, the other side
   loses big.  The 'bribee' gets the winning side, after the fact, and the
   'briber' owns the losing side.   This allows the briber to make the
   bribe, but isolates the two sides so it isn't apparent who is paying
   off.
   From Wikipedia:
   [5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controv
   ersy
   "Likelihood of results[[6]edit]

   Various publications sought to analyze the likelihood of Clinton's
   successful results. Clinton made her money by betting mostly on a
   market downturn at a time when cattle prices actually
   doubled.^[7][13] The editor of the [8]Journal of Futures Markets said
   in April 1994, "This is like buying ice skates one day and entering the
   Olympics a day later. She took some extraordinary risks."^[9][3] Her
   activities involved exposure to losses that could have been greater
   than her family's net worth if the market had turned sharply against
   her.^[10][14] The former head of the [11]IRS chief counsel’s
   Commodities Industry Specialization Team expressed skepticism that a
   novice trader could make such a return.^[12][15] One analysis performed
   by [13]Auburn University and published in the [14]Journal of Economics
   and Finance claimed to find that the odds of a return as large as
   Clinton obtained during the period in question were about one in 31
   trillion.^[15][16]^[16][17]^[17][18]   "
                     Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/KVBJHB.pdf
   3. https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22/report-on-biden-activities-with-china/
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy&action=edit&section=3
   7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-devil-13
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Futures_Markets
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-nw-mhrtec-3
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-14
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-15
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_University
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review
  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-16
  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-17
  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy#cite_note-18