[b]Michael Lewis
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.[/b]
Not unlike in the Oval Office.
Again, in other words.
Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away – far, far and away – the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is.
Times 9 [or more]. Then times 162.
I have a job to do. Make money for my clients. Period. But boy it gets morbid when you start making investments that work out extra great if a tragedy occurs.
You know, for the “little guy”.
People with Asperger’s couldn’t control what they were interested in. It was a stroke of luck that his special interest was financial markets and not, say, collecting lawn mower catalogues.
Or posting here.
It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to discover that an important part of the clock was inside his own mind.
No, I don’t get it either.
Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment.
You know, if you can afford it.