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Major Nikon

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13. Oral Roberts used to offer a money back guarantee

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 4, 2020, 11:19 AM

Jan 2020

I don’t think any of the current charlatans do. At any rate it works the exact same way as supply side economics. There’s no empirical evidence it works, but as some say, faith is all you really need.

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