Archive for the 'economics' Category

the gift that keeps on giving
April 30, 2008

A: I need to find a birthday gift for C
B: I’m sure she’d love it if you wrote up an analysis of this mutual fund.
A: that is the gift that keeps on giving, definitel
A: y
B: She actually put me on exactly the kind of thing that I’m good at — a lot of information with [...]

Trust me!
April 4, 2008

A: I wish more people still smoked inside their house.
A: Like nice cigarettes and cigars and pipes.
B: That would be nice.
B: C. sometimes smokes in his room, but that’s b/c of the weather.
A: I’ve gotta stop drinking whole bottles of wine.
A: They give me headaches.
A: Maybe smoking would give me something to put in my [...]

That’s crazy talk.
March 21, 2008

A: Did you see that Visa did an IPO today?
A: I didn’t realize they weren’t already public
B: I didn’t realize it was today, but I knew it was upcoming.
B: Mastercard went public only recently
A: That’s bizarre to me.
A: I’m sure that going public will mean that they’ll both become incredibly poorly run as management focuses [...]