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Koch: Burial Plot Better Than Stock Market

Are you morbidly minded and unsure what to do with your money in these grave economic times? Why not invest in a burial plot?

That's former Mayor Ed Koch's tongue-in-cheek plan, according to an article today in the New York Times. Sam Roberts writes:

He said he had recently paid $20,000 for the plot, a good investment, he explained, because the stock market, unlike the price of cemetery space, had since gone down.

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