"We also built models of 139 developing countries going back 30 years - the most comprehensive models ever developed on unrecorded capital outflows and the accumulated value of all this offshore wealth, " he explains.

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That's great for many Americans who feel like they can live comfortably in retirement on their other nest egg assets, not to mention the accumulated value of any real estate they've collected over the years.

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However, the big winner of the event--because it's far more than a game--didn't buy any advertising time for its base brand, but accumulated many minutes and millions of dollars of value.

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Imagine that some wealthy person had accumulated a very large iTunes collection: at their death would the IRS want to value it as something that should pay inheritance tax?

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This means that virtual items acquired within Entropia Universe have a real cash value, and a participant may, at any time, initiate a withdrawal of their accumulated PEDs back into real world currencies according to the fixed exchange rate, minus transaction fees, the minimum amount for a withdrawal is 1000 PED.

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