Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4467206-20140611020917/@comment-13965604-20140709003301

Timca wrote: How did they get so rich in the first place? i can agree on having some money but thats ridiculous

They're bonds, not cash. You buy bonds cheap, and wait for them to mature. Like, today, you can spend $50 to get a $100 savings bond, but depending on the interest rate it will take five or ten years to reach it's full value. They can also continue to accrue interest after they've reached face value, but I'm not very sure how that part works. We have no way of knowing how old the bonds are, but they certainly didn't spend that much money to get them.