Other moves seemed simply unwise: A few weeks ago, he disclosed that he had liquidated a $68,000 retirement account, a move that is widely discouraged by financial experts and that probably cost him about $24,000 in taxes and penalties.
They found that Monsignor Gradilone had liquidated a mutual fund in the church's investment portfolio, but that the money had not been used for any discernible parish purpose.
US government-issued bonds and gold both continued to climb: the online gold sales website BullionVault said it had liquidated a quarter-ton of gold since the vote went through.
The Serbian interior ministry, in a statement issued in Belgrade today, said its paramilitary units and the police had destroyed a "terrorist base" in Donji and had "liquidated" a leader of the rebel movement, Adem Jashari, in the village of Prekaz.
Three weeks ago, the security service announced with some fanfare that it had liquidated an Arab guerrilla known as Khattab, the leader of Islamic militants who are waging at least part of the Chechen war.
He has liquidated all assets and sold the lawn furniture to go all-in on this philosophy.
By then he had liquidated all but a small part of his holdings in the General Electric Company, sometimes at very low prices, and had become more and more separated from the electric lighting field.
PGGM, a big Dutch pension fund, has liquidated its holdings in five Israeli banks (though the Netherlands' largest has affirmed its investments).
According to Lukoil spokesman Sergei Makarov, a new programme by the company has liquidated more than 50 pools of leaked oil.
Mr. Brant has liquidated large blocks of Take-Two stock this year, regularly selling 20,000 shares at a time, for a total value in excess of $20 million.
