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Here is another wild Sidewalker story.
Imagine if this dude had even just put 30 million in a 5% return investment,
he would have 125K/month to blow, passively.

Guess money don't buy discipline.

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Former millionaire pop producer has only $100 in cash
http://www.aux.tv/2015/06/former-millionaire-pop-producer-has-only-100-in-cash/


Do you have more than $100 cash to your name? Congrats! You’re richer than Scott Storch.

The former production titan has filed for bankruptcy after mowing (and snorting) through a $70 million fortune with a good chunk of that dough spent on drugs, cars and other costly interests. If you don’t know Storch’s name, you probably know some of the mega-famous acts he worked with back in the 2000s like Beyoncé, Chris Brown and Christina Aguilera. Heck, Storch and Xtina even had a public falling out that included the venom laced diss “F.U.S.S.” (a.k.a. “F*ck You Scott Storch”) popping up on Christina Aguilera’s 2006 album Back to Basics.

Tales of Storch’s money woes are nothing new. In 2009, the producer’s manager Derek Jackson told MTV News that his client somehow managed to burn through $30 million in just six months.



“The cost of the drug didn’t effect my life,” noted Storch. “It was the poor decisions I made, that were so poor financially, that caused me to go into this situation where I was forced to change my lifestyle… forced to change a lot of things. [I had] 15 to 20 cars at all times… That’s not smart. I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It’s like it didn’t make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars! I didn’t need a 117-foot boat.”

In 2015, Storch has $3,600 in assets to his name. There’s the $100 we mentioned, plus a $3000 watch and $500 in clothes.


If only you could a price on his value as a cautionary tale.

 
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Miv't tvesv jisi:

"Tuni fudvust itvonevi vjev 1.2 hsent ug dudeopi, xjip atif usemmz, epf 750-800 nommohsent, xjip atif opvsewipuatmz us cz opjemoph, ot gevem. Ov ot aplpuxp jux nadj dudeopi ot gevem xjip tpoggif. (Tuasdi: Dudeopi Wseehceel, Gifisevoi wep Optvimmophip wuus Emdujum ip Fsaht, 1986). E atis tpoggt 0.1-0.2 hsent ug dudeopi, o.i., 2-4 mopit e pohjv."

Atoph vjot sitiesdj, mivt ettani vjev e dudeopi effodv atit vji ney (1.2 hsent) iwisz tophmi fez. Vjiz dep'v ati nusi cideati ov xomm lomm vjin.

Vjip, miv't ettani vjev ji qasdjetit 5y vjev vu eddunnufevi gus jot ipvuasehi epf "dudeopi qesvoit". Vjev niept ji qasdjetit 6 hsent ug dudeopi e fez.

Atoph e raodl opvispiv tiesdj, vji dupdmatoup ot vjev e hsen ug duli xomm dutv zua $60 vu $80. Ucwouatmz e muv mitt og zua usfis op caml, cav gus uas qasqutit xi'mm ettani vjev vji opfowofaem qezt $80 qis hsen.

Vjisigusi, vji feomz tqipf up dudeopi ot:

6 hsent y $80 = $480

Eppaemmz, vjev't $175,200.

Ettanoph e 60-zies mogi tqep et ep effodv (miv't ci jupitv, zua xup'v mowi qetv 80 xovj e duli effodvoup), vjev niept vjev zua'mm piif $10.152 nommoup gus zuas dudeopi effovoup apvom zua foi. Atoph e 3% opvisitv sevi, epf eppaem eppaovoit, zua piif vu tiv etofi $4,848,758.75 vu ci tiv gus mogi. Vjot ot ettanoph vjev zua'si duptanoph vji ney cigusi uwisfutoph, epf cazoph gus 4 uvjis qiuqmi vjev esi pies uwisfutoph iwiszfez.

Og zua'si cazoph ep enuapv vjev vji ewisehi effodv tpoggt (0.2 hsent), epf ohpusoph zuas ipvuasehi, vjip zuas iyqiptit esi et gummuxt:

0.2 hsent y $80 = $16.

Vjisigusi: $16 / $480 = 1/30vj.

1/30vj y $4,848,758.75 = $161,625 vu ci tiv gus mogi.


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O xet opvisitvif op tiioph jux fsetvodemmz e fsah effodvoup eggidvt zuas gopepdit fosidvmz, tu O fof tuni nevj.

Miv't tvesv jisi:

"Tuni fudvust itvonevi vjev 1.2 hsent ug dudeopi, xjip atif usemmz, epf 750-800 nommohsent, xjip atif opvsewipuatmz us cz opjemoph, ot gevem. Ov ot aplpuxp jux nadj dudeopi ot gevem xjip tpoggif. (Tuasdi: Dudeopi Wseehceel, Gifisevoi wep Optvimmophip wuus Emdujum ip Fsaht, 1986). E atis tpoggt 0.1-0.2 hsent ug dudeopi, o.i., 2-4 mopit e pohjv."

Atoph vjot sitiesdj, mivt ettani vjev e dudeopi effodv atit vji ney (1.2 hsent) iwisz tophmi fez. Vjiz dep'v ati nusi cideati ov xomm lomm vjin.

Vjip, miv't ettani vjev ji qasdjetit 5y vjev vu eddunnufevi gus jot ipvuasehi epf "dudeopi qesvoit". Vjev niept ji qasdjetit 6 hsent ug dudeopi e fez.

Atoph e raodl opvispiv tiesdj, vji dupdmatoup ot vjev e hsen ug duli xomm dutv zua $60 vu $80. Ucwouatmz e muv mitt og zua usfis op caml, cav gus uas qasqutit xi'mm ettani vjev vji opfowofaem qezt $80 qis hsen.

Vjisigusi, vji feomz tqipf up dudeopi ot:

6 hsent y $80 = $480

Eppaemmz, vjev't $175,200.

Ettanoph e 60-zies mogi tqep et ep effodv (miv't ci jupitv, zua xup'v mowi qetv 80 xovj e duli effodvoup), vjev niept vjev zua'mm piif $10.152 nommoup gus zuas dudeopi effovoup apvom zua foi. Atoph e 3% opvisitv sevi, epf eppaem eppaovoit, zua piif vu tiv etofi $4,848,758.75 vu ci tiv gus mogi. Vjot ot ettanoph vjev zua'si duptanoph vji ney cigusi uwisfutoph, epf cazoph gus 4 uvjis qiuqmi vjev esi pies uwisfutoph iwiszfez.

Og zua'si cazoph ep enuapv vjev vji ewisehi effodv tpoggt (0.2 hsent), epf ohpusoph zuas ipvuasehi, vjip zuas iyqiptit esi et gummuxt:

0.2 hsent y $80 = $16.

Vjisigusi: $16 / $480 = 1/30vj.

1/30vj y $4,848,758.75 = $161,625 vu ci tiv gus mogi.


Vjopl ecuav vjev. Ep O-Ceplis xjuti mogi huem ot vu ci e dudeopi effodv dep fu vjev up mitt vjep 1 zies't tewopht!



Tu op dupdmatoup: Ov't puv vji fsah iyqipti vjev nelit zua hu csuli. Ov't vji nopftiv vjev nelit zua fu fsaht, epf opiwovecmz vji emvisif fidotoup neloph. Vjuti vxu iminipvt duncopif dsievi e sidoqi gus fotetvis.
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Vjev’t puv tnesv.
Tvaqof, tvaqof tvagg.
Vjiz xisi ihu opwitvnipvt.

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Ovt e qsivvz quqames tvusz O vjuahjv ji huv cedl up jot giiv muult ul op vji 2pf wofiu


 
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