Top 20 Things You Could Do
With $700 Billion

Avoid depression. :)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things You Could Do With $700 Billion

  1. Buy a house of cards
  2. Socialize a bit more
  3. Avoid depression. :)
  4. Buy a better bowling ball
  5. Impress the ladies
  6. Look to AIG for alternative answers and assurances
  7. Y’ought to be able to buy a yacht for that;
    join the U.S. CEO Flotilla
  8. Not solve the financial crisis
  9. Buy buckets and barrels of French wine!
  10. Fund golden parachutes, Wall Street style
    (10.5: Give everyone in the U.S. $2,300)
  11. Purchase the means to produce more, consume less.
  12. America
  13. 700 trillion pieces of Bazooka Joe (I think)
  14. 1.4 trillion McDonald’s Apple Pies
    (of course on sale buy 1 get 1 free)
  15. Fund AIG executive retreat
  16. Pay off 1/1000 of U.S. debt to China
  17. Buy a decent-sized island; launch America 2.0
  18. Provide alternative energy sources to entire U.S.
  19. (buy) Houses for people to live in
  20. Live like a BuffettBuy Iceland

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  1. katie schwartz Says:

    I think I just fell in love with this group of people. I am crushing hard on the board for the 700. It’s sooo funny and clever squared.

  2. CT Moore Says:

    I would self-publish a book of haikus, then by millions of copies, and secure myself a spot in the history books as one of the most brilliant haiku poets to have ever lived.

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