- Shortly before Super Tuesday, he passed the $500 million mark in campaign spending, most of it going to ads.
- For that staggering price tag, what else could the 78-year-old billionaire have bought for himself instead of all those ads?
- According to Advertising Analytics , Bloomberg has now spent $558,000,000 on all media types.
- The unprecedented spending yields some eye-popping results outside political ads.
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This is what Mike Bloomberg could have bought for $500 million instead of running for president
Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race after Super Tuesday after dropping an unprecedented amount of cash on the primary.
Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at the Christian Cultural Center on November 17, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
'Seinfeld'
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Instead of having to fight for airtime with pharmaceutical companies, Bloomberg could have just purchased the exclusive rights to one of America's most beloved television series. Last year, Netflix bought the "Seinfeld" franchise for a fee said to be in the ballpark of $500 million.
At least 9 of the world's most expensive Ferraris
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Just because he could, Bloomberg's $509 million in campaign spending could also be used to snag at least nine of the world's most expensive Ferrari models.
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This particular one the 250 GTO has only 39 copies ever built, so for only the hassle of a late-starting presidential campaign, anyone with half a billion in the coffers could own a quarter of the whole fleet.
17 to 72 of his favorite helicopters
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Agusta Westland
There are few things Mike Bloomberg reportedly loves more than getting in the political arena and leading large organizations, but helicopters very well may be one.
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Bloomberg has been said to have a love affair with choppers, and he got on the waiting list in 2012 for a $30 million AW609 Tiltrotor a helicopter-plane prototype modeled after the US military's tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey.
He also owns an Agusta SPA A109S, which goes for closer to $5 million.
Manchester City's entire wage bill for the next two seasons under the Champions League ban
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After the recent FIFA ruling, Bloomberg could plug the holes of Manchester City as the elite soccer club faces hard times amid a two-season ban from the UEFA Champions League.
The reigning champions ran afoul of the world soccer organization's financial fair-play rules.
As one of the most sought after sports TV contracts, the Champions League brings substantial revenue to the top four British teams that qualify. Without competing in the tournament, City will have a hard time keeping its star players on the books, but Bloomberg could help.
Of the $188,459,308 in salary City needs to keep paying each season at the current rate, Bloomberg could cover that for the same amount as just a few weeks of campaigning for president.
7 private shuttles to the space station and back
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For just $72 million , tickets are available for a flight with the Russian space team to the International Space Station with Bluefish.
The company sets up a 16-day trip featuring a space walk and unforgettable views some 200 miles above Earth's surface.
For only a few more mega ad buys, why not splurge and take the trip six more times with that half a billion?
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See Also:
- Inside the life of Michael Milken, the pardoned former financier who made $500 million a year in the 1980s before being sent to prison by Rudy Giuliani
- What to expect from Michael Bloomberg at tonight's Las Vegas debate
- Mitsubishi once transformed a Japanese island into a bustling coal mining metropolis. Now it's an abandoned, derelict mess.
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