Being a Capitalist, I'm always looking for new ways to make money. I was thinking this could be a good area for an exchange of ideas. I'm already into Real Estate investing and some stock trading. What are some of your guys ideas?

Bank Robbery.  I need some new clients.

I have all the plans for a home garage cheese making kit.

Can you picture the infomercial?

Here's a few I've been working on:

* Dog-flavored ice cream.

* Air-conditioning for your pants.

* Genetically-engineered skinless cucumbers.

* Movie theater seat/toilet bowl combination.

* Dung beetle farming.

* A pencil that writes in braille.



Okay, now you owe me royalties [s]if[/s] when these ideas come to fruition.

I thought I lived up to my name[rolleyes]

Anyway,What about exploding breasts implants?
We can market as an alternative to guns for womens self defence.

in shrill, East-German female voice:

[size=4] FEMBOTS[SIZE=4]

I've got a great idea, what I'm going to do is....[:D]

I've got a million ideas. I'll sell you some [:D].

Take the Pimp test and then you can rule out or know for sure if you can make money the old fashioned way!!

[beer]

Nobody has any SERIOUS ideas [>:/]

The only thing in the stock market that looks good to me are gold producer stocks. Check this chart out, an index of small gold producers over the past 2 years: [url]http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=$HUI,uu[h,a]wacayyay[pb20!b40][vc60][iUb21!Lya7,14,28]&pref=G[/url]  Compare it to index charts for NASDAQ: [url]http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=compq,uu[h,a]wacayyay[pb20!b40][vc60][iUb21!Lya7,14,28]&pref=G[/url]

The S&P 500: [url]http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=spy,uu[h,a]wacayyay[pb20!b40][vc60][iUb21!Lya7,14,28]&pref=G[/url]

and the Dow: [url]http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=indu,uu[h,a]wacayyay[pb20!b40][vc60][iUb21!Lya7,14,28]&pref=G[/url].  


It's amazing.  And yet you don't hear a PEEP about gold on CNBC, except for denigrating and pooh-poohing it.  

CNBC has no problem recommending stocks that have fallen 50% or more this year, always citing "This is the bottom, the economy's recovering and these stocks are cheap!".  The market continues to fall each time they urge people to get back in.  Meanwhile, they ignore gold stocks that are up 50% or more for the year.  Something VERY FISHY about that.

So buy gold, and when CNBC finally starts hyping it (when all the big players have accumulated as much as possible and now need suckers to sell them to), you'll know the time to sell will be at hand.

I recommend the HP Photosmart 7550 photo printer as the ideal money making device.
[;D]

I can't believe nobody else thought of this!

Get an FFL......[:D]

Internet porn.  You can always get free pictures by starting yet another Babe-Of-The-Day thread.

I said I wanted to MAKE money. Not lose it.

I'd spend to much of the profits on my collection [:D]

As a capitalist, you should realize that if anyone does have a really nifty idea, if they have any brains they sure as hell are not going to tell you.

Just a little eye opener...from one capitalist to another.

PROFITS...LOL. Thats a good one.

Seriously, GUNS. Especially the ones they will ban in 2004. Nothing goes up like a grandfathered in firearm.

In the early 1980s I paid the following RETAIL prices for NIB guns:

HK91 $400.00 currently about $2,000.00
HK93 $400.00 currently about $2,500.00
Steyr AUG $600.00 currently about $4,000.00
HK94 $600.00 currently about $4,000.00
Colt HBar A2 $350.00 currently about $2,000.00
Polytec AK47 $225.00 currently about $1,200.00

Lets see gold do that. Now if only I had bought that SIG550 for $700.00.

It was worth a try wasn't it? [:D]

Word on the street around here is that smuggling illegals is quite lucrative.

Serious Ideas huh?  Sure play the lotto.  

Or, go to med. school.  Or law school.  Or veterinarian school.  Get a college degree--learn a profession/trade in high demand.  

Unless you are a very independant, highly motivated self-starter, don't bother with any of these.  That applies to starting you own business or anything else in life as well.  

It's real simple.  If simply asking others for some ideas on what to do is your only plan of attack, you might as well quit now.

And you wonder why you get all of the sarcastic replies?    


Edited to Add:

Didn't mean to sound so harsh, but really, you just have to do it.  Decide on the path and go.  After enough time to T&E, if it sucks, get to the point you can change gears, and go again.  

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Why... WHY do you have to keep reminding us?![>Q]

Develop software or a web site that allows people to surf for porn from work. I figure anything that allows people to work less and view porn will sell.

Look at my post.  Or am I casting pearls before swine?  I think I am.

Burn CDs.  I will have some very interesting politically incorrect CDs for sale at The Great Southern Freedom Shoot, for $5!!!


Balming

How about - become CEO of a large company, give yourself interest free loan which you invest in the stock market, buy yourself mansions and other real estate; then forgive yourself the loan; book company expenses as revenue; create secret side ventures - you suck in this capital and move your corporate liabilities over on to this balance sheet; fire a bunch of employees then go to the board and show them all the 'expenses' you are saving - get another big bonus; do your investment banking at the same firm managing your personal portfolio - make sure they dial you by 'mistake' when they get a hot tip about some goings on either good or bad about some initial public offering.

Did I miss anything?

But you sure as hell won't become president !!