Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "How Iceland's Richest Man Lost EVERYTHING" video.

  1. We will all remember his name... Because there's no way you get it mixed up with anything else with incompatible consonants. :)
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  2. It's pronounced Raik-YAH-vik. In Icelandic the J makes the Y sound and the Y makes the J sound.
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  3. About that St Petersburg bottling plant, a lot of fortunes were made ironically during Russia's most severe depression following the fall of the USSR. People who could buy up defunct state run ventures and get them back on their feet usually walked away with major profits. In fact, Russia's current wealthy people are all people who had some money saved during the Soviet days and bought state ventures. How ironic it is that most Russian corporations are run by people who grew up in Soviet Union...
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  4. Oh look, Norse Lehman Brothers, apparently.
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  5. They did something right on the way up...
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  6.  @seneca983  ENGLISH!
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  7.  @seneca983  that isn't how I heard them say it. So bug off.
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  8.  @seneca983  English isn't a first language for you, is it?
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  9.  @seneca983  whatever you were taught, that was the "correct" way. No one talks like that.
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  10.  @seneca983  I don't know or care what that means
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  11.  @ProfAzimov  buying the dip really works in the civilized world
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  12.  @alleung42  people thought real estate went nowhere but up back then. The Lehman Bros fell for the same exact trap.
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  13. Great original meant big, so the word is appropriate.
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