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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 06, 2015 9:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Using John’s numbers, he inherited 40 million, now is about 4 billion. That’s 100-fold increase, when the stock market increased by about a factor of 20 to 25 in that same four decades.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The exact amount Trump inherited is somewhat in dispute, it ranges from 40 million to 200 million; I chose to be conservative and use the lowest estimate<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>There you go again, always the conservative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> And the stock market went up by a factor of 74 not 20 or 25.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>John which of these numbers is wrong? I get 22. Where did 74 come from?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-year" target="_blank">http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-year</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 style='background:white;border:solid #D7D7D7 1.0pt'><tr><td colspan=2 style='border-top:none;border-left:solid #EAEAEA 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:300%'><span style='color:#111111'>Dec 4, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td colspan=2 style='border-top:none;border-left:solid #EAEAEA 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:300%'><span style='color:#111111'>2,091.62</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='border-top:none;border-left:solid #EAEAEA 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right;line-height:300%'><span style='color:#111111'>Jan 1, 1974</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td colspan=2 style='border-top:none;border-left:solid #EAEAEA 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0in 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:300%'><span style='color:#111111'>96.11</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr height=0><td width=105 style='border:none'></td><td width=2 style='border:none'></td><td width=63 style='border:none'></td><td width=43 style='border:none'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>