Buying a country - easy enough to do with the sorts of numbers they dealt with on a constant basis. Capitalism didn't see it as a good enough investment, though, and if it was not good enough to invest in, there was no point in buying into it. It was one of many reasons why he did not support this bailout nonsense.
"Mind you, it is a dangerous and difficult balance to walk." Of course, the fastest and best way to increase sales when it came to commercial products was to release a limited quantity of it, and then kill off half the people who bought the product. Ethics that bound humanity deemed this impossible but gods were not human and rarely were they ever bound by something as trivial as ethical responsibility.
When it came to tobacco, though, things might not turn out the same way.
"At other times you might need to sweeten the deal instead."