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Billionaire's Poker
January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
..or why that German billionaire jumped in front of a train:
Adolf Merckle, one of the world’s richest men, committed suicide yesterday by throwing himself under a train, Bloomberg reports. Financial difficulties, and particularly great losses he suffered on Volkswagen stock, are being cited as the key reason he ended his life:
[Merckle's company] VEM was caught in [...]