How to Earn a Million in Two Weeks?

January 7, 2011 4:51pm CST
This is my assignment for a financial class. Please help. I need as many responses as I can. Everyone can benefit from this.
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8 Jan 11
Get a good quality printing press and plenty of the right kind of paper and ink to duplicate your country's currency. Print off bank notes to the value of ten million, then get your local money launderer to buy the 10 million forged bank notes off you for 2 million real ones. OR Travel to a country which has suffered runaway inflation, on a similar level to Weimar Germany. Change your own country's currency to the local money and hopefully you'll have 2 million of whatever the local currency is.
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29 Jan 11
Hahaha! I don't even have money to travel.
• India
7 Jan 11
I think the best answer for this would be to plan and rob a bank! It does take a good time to plan for a bank robbery and you can make a million from a bank robbery! The other way round is to work like crazy without even sleep or food like they show it in the movies and earn the money. Which i believe is only possible in the movies... Cause if it were really possible anyone would work for entire 2 weeks, earn a million and retire... Probably the rest of their life! There is no shortcut to earning money... ;)
• United States
8 Jan 11
I read somewhere that the average take from a bank robbery is $5,000 and 75% of people are caught. So, while it seems that it would be the best way to make $1,000,000 it doesn't seem like the best of ideas.
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12 Jan 11
Thank you SunnyBuddy for being frank! @aidenoftower: That's interesting data that you have! Where did you get that? Don't worry guys I have no plans robbing a bank. I want to earn decently. ;o)
@topffer (42156)
• France
7 Jan 11
Robbery ? Kidnapping ? Blackmail ? Except if you have a lot more money to invest, I don't see any way to earn a million in two weeks without spending the rest of your life in jail . Anyways, if I knew it I would not say it to you, and you can have a legitimate doubt .
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12 Jan 11
If you have any idea, please tell me. To share knowledge is like sharing to the world to make it a better place so everybody has a quality of life. Remember good karma, even if you don't believe in it, can unexpected rewards! ;o)
8 Jan 11
It is impossible to earn a million bucks in two weeks if you do not have the capital to make such money. The only way to make such money is by doing illegal activities like kidnap for ransom or robbing a bank.
12 Jan 11
Got it! Everyone is saying that in order to earn without doing illegal activities is to have the required capital to earn it
• India
8 Jan 11
You can earn millions in 2 weeks.For this you have to invest money.If you put your money in options trading in the right way, u can achieve it. you can go for either CALL OPTION or PUT OPTION depending on the market conditions.If u properly do it, u can get millions on 2 weeks.
12 Jan 11
That's interesting! Kindly explain further what's options trading
@loyh24 (1)
• Canada
7 Jan 11
Brokerage firms utilize many methods to achieve revenues daily. To earn a million in two weeks may require above market returns. For example, using a principal amount of $100M at a rate of 26.5% per annum will yield a little over $1M in 14 days. The returns in example can be attributable to a high risk asset class such as equity. A lower return asset class will require more significant income to achieve that same amount. For example, investing a principal amount of $500M at a rate of 5.25% per annum will generate over $1M in 14 days. This asset class is lower risk, like a government bond. Another example of risk vs reward.
12 Jan 11
Thank you for a detailed mathematical solution! I may not understand how you came about those figures, I know what you mean. So I need to invest either $100M or $500M dollars. If I may ask, would you have any idea if it's a just a million pesos that I need to earn in two weeks? I'm from the Philippines. =)
@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
8 Jan 11
Hmmm, I think that this task is impossible without already being the CEO of a big multi-national bank. But the teacher is probably looking for an answer involving a business start-up. So figure out the next pet rock beanie baby craze. Or sell a million pizzas in two weeks. Or something that you get a lot of people to buy.
• United States
14 Feb 11
You could plan a bank robbery, but that wouldn't be earning it would it? This is a tough one. I'm not sure if it could be done.
• United States
8 Jan 11
Cannot be done online.
• United States
7 Jan 11
The ability to earn a million in two weeks is almost impossible in my opinion, unless you were already starting with a decent sum of money that you could invest or use to ease your abilities to make money.
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12 Jan 11
How much "decent sum of money" you're talking about?