$85M vs $92M. You've gotta be joking. MM is worth way more than PB.Prev TopicNext Topic

• Prob988

  

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  Feb 12, 2009, 11:35 pm

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  About 5 million more when you look at the cash value.

  When you consider the odds it's even worse.    At the risk of having to listen to someone complain about paying taxes - I note that the pretax expectation (cash) value of MM is 0.49 while that of PB is 0.43.

  The "$92M" figure is just poor marketing - Republican MBA type book cooking - inflated by pretending that investments will be worth the paper they're printed on in 25 years.
• JONNIE

  

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  Feb 13, 2009, 12:33 am

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  LOL- great post prob. Powerball statrts at $20M now, but rolls differently than mega? Whatever, I like mega (being as I live in a mega state) but I wouldn't mind a starting jackpot of $20M