Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
June 2, 2016
Mars by 2025
The entrepreneur who wants to colonize Mars first, leaving settlement of the relatively nearby moon to the professionals, has put a date to his wild-eyed plan: launch by 2024, meaning ETA is only 9 years away. Valued subscribers, if Hollywood ever sets out to make a science fiction movie about our times, now would seem the perfect moment for those opening credits to roll:
http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/01/elon-musk-wants-people-on-mars-by-2025/
Break out the popcorn and await the first astounding twist in what'll surely turn out to be a captivating, star-studded plot.