I'm not sure if this is currently the case or not but at some point in our past the "profession" that generated the highest accumulation of profit was currency trading. I was a bit dismayed when I first heard that people who produce no product or service of value could be the winners in the realm of wealth generation ![Shrug](images/smilies/shrug.gif)
There is something that just doesn't seem right in that scenario.
...and BTW Ben, I offered my wife an all expense paid trip back to Texas (she graduated from Baylor) in-lieu of her upcoming trip to England---but she declined
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