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Subject: [OM] Re: IMG: Nathan's PAW 3: Valencia and my best friend Lars
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:42:24 -0800
Piers Hemy wrote:
> As in "this impressive, new Russian Orthodox church, a sign of Russian
> money, most of it earned in various dodgy ways, having made its way to
> Spain"?
>
> Would the same commentary not have applied to Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan,
> John D Rockefeller etc in their time?
>   
Not quite the same, as they kept the money in the country where they 
earned it, whatever one may think of their methods. Same with the 
Western railroad "barons" and many others.

John Jacob Astor might be an exception, as I assume much of his wealth 
in the fur trade came out of Canada.

Moose

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