[QUOTE=Ranchoth]
Saaay, like $50 million worth of…fireworks?
[/QUOTE]
I think we have a winner 
Heads up - the 1945 version of Brewster’s Millions is on tomorrow morning on TCM at 9:30 central.
StG
Currency exchange. I recently read that five hundred dollar bills are still legal tender even though they are not being printed anymore. Because of their scarcity, they generally are sold as collectibles for around seven hundred dollars. So if you want to lost money, you can buy five hundred dollars bills for their market value and then spend them at their face value. You reduce your assets by twenty-nine percent each time you go through the cycle.
If you want to push it, you can use thousand dollar bills. A thousand dollar bill has a market value of around $5000, so you can reduce your money by eighty percent each cycle.
A five thousand dollar bill has a market value of around $100,000. But these bills are scarce - there are believed to only be 342 five thousand dollar bills in existence. But let’s say you started with the traditional thirty million dollars and managed to buy three hundred of these bills (for their market value of thirty million dollars). The face value of your money is now $1,500,000 - a ninety-five percent reduction.
Or you could combine these ideas and hire hookers and send them into space.
Space Hookers!
I am watching it now. One thing Brewster (Dennis O’Keefe) does is to punch a guy and then settle out of court with him for an outrageous sum (in 1945 it was $15,000). This seems to be very effective if you play it right, provided you pick the right guy. Get him to provoke you in front of witnesses and try to get him to swing at you first.
Also, Brewster instructed his employee Eddie “Rochester” Anderson to buy season tickets at every racetrack he could think of. It’s been many years since I’ve seen this movie. These tickets will be assets after the month is up, right?