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Offline libertybele

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Bill Ackman on saving capitalism:
Every child in the U.S. could be given enough money at birth to become millionaires by retirement


Bill Ackman has an idea for saving the system that made him a billionaire.

The Pershing Square Capital Management chairman told investors in a recent note that, in order to preserve capitalism, steps need to be taken to close the increasing inequality gap.

One possible measure: investment accounts for every child.

Under Ackman’s plan, each child born in the U.S. would receive $6,750 in a government-funded basket of index funds that could only be tapped at retirement. Assuming 8% returns over 65 years from birth to retirement, that total would ultimately exceed $1 million, and it would cost the government about $26 billion a year, if the birthrate holds.

“Compounded returns over time are indeed one of the great wonders of the world, and every day we wait to address this issue, the problem looms larger,” the hedge-fund manager wrote.

He added that a government-led push for equities-investing accounts could “encourage greater financial literacy” and spread the stock-market’s gains across a wider swath of the U.S. population.

“Americans that have no ownership in the success of capitalism, and who are suffering economically, are more motivated to turn toward socialism or other alternatives,” he said in the note. ...........

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-ackman-on-saving-capitalism-every-child-in-the-u-s-could-be-given-enough-money-at-birth-to-become-millionaires-by-retirement-11598893294?mod=home-page
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Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly, do not claim to be wiser than you are.  Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.  If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all…do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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And by then maybe a million dollars will get you a loaf of bread and a cup of coffee.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Offline EdinVA

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And good ole billy would be happy to manage that fund for a small fee.... self serving communists...