Current Events > Why does Uncle Scrooge even have a money bin, anyway?

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If he loves making money so much wouldn't it all be tied up in investments?
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Considering Forbes's calculated worth of Scrooge, what he has in his vault is probably like a fraction of his worth and it's purely there for the swimming pool factor.
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It's not all his money.

He wants to keep his assets liquid.
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According the the Disney wiki, he doesn't trust the banks. Given the time he was created was a decade after the great depression, it kind of makes sense that he wouldn't trust others with his money.

It doesn't make sense today with cash being the last thing financial advisors tell you to hold and there's so much deposit insurance you can buy.
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The Money bin is a fraction of his worth. In a comic he competed against John D Rockerduck to impress a sultan by determining whose wealth in currency weighed the most. Scrooge submitted his whole money bin because he felt it would be enough to win, but Rockerduck topped it and gloated that he was the richest in the world. Scrooge sent a wire and a lot more money was air dropped, tipping the scale in his favor. Rockerduck was astonished, but Scrooge said the Money bin is only a fraction and that he keeps because he enjoys being around money. The vast majority of his wealth is in banks collecting interest.
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