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The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE

wsj.com

10 points by igonvalue 9 hours ago · 5 comments

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throwaway81523 4 hours ago

Story here: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/conservative-economist-sco...

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TLDR: Musk fans bet that DOGE would cut government spending so the guy bet against them. He ended up betting around $342K (his liquid assets, not what most of us would call life savings) and hedged some of it later. Eventual result was he gained $128K.

nubg 5 hours ago

Still gambling.

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