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You have a couple weeks left to do your gift shopping. Here is a list of gifts for the billionaire who has everything. Buy them now before they are gone.

007 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Designed by Daniel Craig

This blue Aston Martin automobile has a powerful twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12 engine, and is being offered by Neiman Marcus. The famous 007, Daniel Craig, custom designed the car. Oh yeah; they will throw in an Omega limited edition platinum watch as part of the deal, and of course two free tickets to the latest James Bond movie.

Price: $700,007

Neiman Marcus

Submarine Sports Car

How would you like to drive a zero emissions vehicle that you and drive on land or underwater. This car is offered by Hammacher Schlemmer.

Price: $2,000,000

Hammacher Schlemmer

Amoro 18k White Gold Colombian Emerald and Diamond Ring

For the special woman in your life, a perfect gift would be an Amoro 18k White Gold Colombian Emerald and Diamond Ring which includes a Colombian Emerald weighing approximately 4.08 carats, and two baguette cut genuine diamonds weighing approximately 1.01 carats.

Price: $110,000

Chartwell Estate

If you are looking to move up to a larger house, Chartwell Estate should make the perfect home. It is also known as the Beverly Hills Mansion. This 25,000 square foot home in Bel Air, California has 11 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms.

Price: $150,000,000 (Sorry, this house was sold literally days ago to Lachlan Murdoch)

photo by Alan Light

Diamond Chess Set

For the Chess Player Who Has Everything: A Diamond Chess Set at a very, very expensive price.

Estimated price: $500,000

1931 Frankenstein Lobby Card Set

This is an original mint complete set of eight Frankenstein Boris Karloff lobby cards from 1931.

Price: $450,000

1796 $2.50 Gold Coin

For the billionaire coin collectors, a gold coin might be the best gift. This is a 1796 $2.50 Capped Bust Quarter Eagle with no stars graded AU-58 by PCGS.

Price: $276,763.31

Most Stolen Library Book

You can’t do without the most expensive investment book ever (and the most stolen library book), Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman, which is currently available for $1,300.

Babe Ruth Signed Baseball

A great gift for a baseball fan. A Babe Ruth Autographed Baseball, graded MINT 8, PSA/DNA Certified.

Price: $124,274.96

Trillion Dollar Bill

Finally, for the billionaire who wants to become a trillionaire, you can get a genuine $100 trillion dollar bill.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays!!!

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Have you ever used Google’s Ngram Viewer? It is an incredible tool. Free, of course. If you don’t know what an ngram is, Wikipedia defines it as “an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of comma-delimited search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1500 and 2008.”

If that is not clear, I will try to define it in very simple terms. It is a chart of the popularity of a word or term or person. For example, I produced a chart of stocks, bonds and gold since 1900.

The top green line represents gold. Notice how it went up during the roaring twenties and continued up into the middle of the Depression. Bond had a bit of fluctuation, but stocks, surprisingly, didn’t vary much and even during the Depression, remained relatively flat. (Please remember, none of this has to do with the prices of these items, only the popularity of these terms.)

Looking at the chart from 1960, stocks, bonds, and gold seemed to drop off, except from the year 2000, gold started to move up.

What else can you find with n-grams? How about the popularity of Warren Buffett?

Other that a very slight drop-off from 2005 to 2006, Warren Buffett’s chart has been constantly rising.

Want some more interesting charts? How about Artificial Intelligence?

Look how it started to take off around 1980 and started to drop off in 1989.

Robotics had a similar run but flattened out at a much higher level than previously.

Finally, lets look at the stock market by itself, without comparing to bonds or gold.

It has been generally in an uptrend, but in 2001 it started dropping and continued to drop.

So where can you find this great tool? just go to:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph

Remember, it can be used for searching anything, not just investment information. You can look up topics related to politics, literature, education, and anything else.

One last one for your amusement and especially financial historians:

“bull and bear”

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Gifts for Billionaires