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...flamboyant Good was brought into the deal. Bush had met Good at one of the aggressive speculator's lavish parties, and they had become friends. Good opened a $750,000 line of credit for Bush, promised more and flashed visions of wealth before his new chum. He even lent Bush $100,000 to invest in a hot commodities tip. The tip fizzled, and Good forgave the loan, an arrangement Bush later acknowledged as "fishy...
...effort to collect debts. He had never been much good at retrieving his money, which was odd for a man who in one lifetime used up all his family's financial-brilliance genes for several generations to come. While he was still a boy learning English in Michigan, he lent money he had saved for college to a friend -- a Yankee, the town history reports -- who skipped town. No matter; he went on lending and giving away money, and there wasn't much left when he died...
...About what?" I asked Randy, who is not someone with a lot of money -- well, not someone with any money, really -- and who, though highly talented in other ways, has absolutely no understanding of the financial markets. I once lent him some money -- to eat, as I understood it -- and found out later that he used it to buy options on a stock someone had told him about. Needless to say, the options expired worthless...
...invested $150,000 in JNB, about half the money Bush needed to get started, and received a limited 6.25% interest that allocated 19.5% of JNB's pretax profits to him. There never were any. Good bought a 25% limited partnership in 1983 for $10,000. The next year, Good lent Bush $100,000 to play in the commodities market with the understanding that he would not have to repay it if the investment went belly-up. Bush admits that was an "incredibly sweet deal." Over the next six years, JNB sold shares in 28 wells but did little more than...
...fact that more than 200 of the city's most prominent individuals--including several prominent Harvard professors--had lent their signatures to the campaign to force Commonwealth Day out of the city did nothing to help matters...