# Destruction of WTC leads to first ever solid refutation of Karl Marx?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 14, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destruction-of-wtc-leads-to-first-ever-solid-refutation-of-karl-marx/81667 "2001-09-14T19:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destruction-of-wtc-leads-to-first-ever-solid-refutation-of-karl-marx/81667/41 "2001-09-18T13:44:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by capacitor \*  
> \*\*Think about this scenario. Osama places calls shorting European insurance company stock (knowing that the NY markets will be forced to shut down). Then those companies have to pay a tremendous amount of coverage because of the destruction of the WTC. The stock plummets in the European market, and Osama makes out with a huge profit. Who says capitalism isn’t good. Farfetched? Well, the German version of the SEC is calling the American SEC for help in investigating a Munich holding company that sold off all of its stock on insurance companies on Monday. \*\*

Maybe not so farfetched. More on this story.

CIA PROBE: MILLIONS OF SHARES SOLD ON EVE OF DISASTER; DID BIN LADEN PULL OFF THE SICKEST SHARE DEAL EVER?  
DAILY MAIL  
09/18/01

[http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm](http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm)

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destruction-of-wtc-leads-to-first-ever-solid-refutation-of-karl-marx/81667/42 "2001-09-18T14:45:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mojo the Monkey \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by BobT \*  
> > \*\*Can someone make an argument that the Crusades were economic wars? Was there money to be made by making the Middle East Christian? You could make that argument I suppose. \*\*
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> Sure. Lucrative trade routes from Europe to Asia traveled through the Middle East. Those who controlled the lands along the route made a killing. \*\*

Bear also in mind that those, who took part in the crusades, often were younger brothers who had to do something as their oldest brother had inherited the estate and they practically had nothing.

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