KingofthePaupers: Nobel Yunus micro-loanshark Grameen bank

If Grameen bank founder Mohammed Yunus gets Nobel prize for micro-loans at 20%, what will UNILETS founder get for macro-loans at 0%? Banking on Earth as it is in Heaven.

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[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc And if you win, I'll send the pay-offs to you framed so you never forget your action with the Great Canadian Gambler. A reason most people fondly remember beating me is that I, almost alone, show my losers when beaten, others think others not knowing helps, I don't. So when, after a raising slugfest and he shows his AK to match AA on board, rather than muck my loser,

I show him my AQ so the crowd can go oooooohhhh and he has a

memorable story. Costs me nil to up his joy.

[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc And if you win, I'll send the pay-offs to you framed.

[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc No, no, I think it's nice of you to fade my bet and provide me with the excitement of the challenge. "USD $100 says that by the end of the day on November 25, 2015, you will still be without a Nobel peace prize." Agreed, $100. Now, how about offering me odds on two prizes: say another $100 to my $20?

And to three: say another $100 to my $10? Or drop a zero? Just to say I've got money riding on a trifecta would make my day. Actually, your first bet has.

[potterjc]

@potterjc @kingofthepaupers

...guess this is one bet "the Great Canadian Gambler" is too afraid to take up.

[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc Good, you put your money where your mouth was, a rarity in this world. So we have a $100 bet that by 2015 Nov 23 I'll have 3 Nobel Prizes.

Oops, the bet is on one. Would you like to lay me odds on 2? even 3? I don't think anyone's ever won 3 before I do.

[potterjc]

@kingofthepaupers

I will absolutely take you up on that.

USD $100 says that by the end of the day on November 25, 2015, you will still be without a Nobel peace prize.

Do we have a bet? And if you die before the deadline, I'm claiming that hundred bucks against your estate.

[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc 74 elections contested and 73 elections lost. And if you're sure I'd lose my bet, here's your chance to take cash off the Great Canadian Gambler.

[potterjc]

@kingofthepaupers

i'm certain you'd lose that bet.

...like the 72 elections you've run in and lost?

[kingofthepaupers]

@potterjc How about a $20 bet on a Nobel Prize in 5 years? Give me odds on 2. Give me bigger odds on 3.

[potterjc]

20% is about the same as a cash advance on my credit card. I don't think this is unreasonable for high-risk loans, particularly in a country where retail bank loans attract about 12-15% interest anyway.

While I don't think micro-financing leads to sustained long-term social development, I do admire the good intention and positive difference Yunus has demonstrated.

You seem incredibly immodest. Stop praising yourself and pining to be given a Nobel prize. It's embarrassing and somewhat pathetic.