Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

To make money fast, for a super genius:

Here are a bunch of ways to make many thousands of dollars -
possibly into the millions (just offhand).

ID theft - should be laughably easy.

Con artist - unlimited numbers of old people he could scam
over the phone

Counterfeiting - should be able to make fake money that
could not be traced or found.

Electronic theft - no doubt could sneak into huge cor****ations
and bleed off some money in an untraceable manner.


To get to the billions, take that seed moenyand invest in options/futures/

derivatives etc,
and manipulate those transactions.  Buy oil contracts and then blow up
a few tankers  - start a war with pakistan, etc...


Or, get some money, invest it - then freeze himself (cryogenics) or
time travel to the future, where it is legitametly grown huge.  (few
hundred 
years,
and he will have all the money he wants)