thought for the day

[solarbird]

No big update until I know how the CDS auction goes and what it means; until then, just watch the big boards. The question for today is whether we'll have a three-digit S&P500 to join the four-digit Dow Industrials Average by the end of the day. @whee!

Oh, and here, your thought for the day, found on a financials message board:



PS: The VIX is an indicator of stock-market instability. (Volatility IndeX, y'see.) Up equals less stability, or more volatility. It's setting 15+year highs today. Marketwatch's headline:

New VIX high is not all that bullish

How many clowns fit inside that damn car, anyway?

Comments

I didn't know Paulson was a jumbly!

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

They went to sea in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a sieve they went to sea!

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

I love the picture. How wonderfully simple in it's visual explanation.

Makes me want to write a Japanese Haiku (vs English one)but then I saw emmacrew wrote a poem. heh. :) How funny that this picture inspires us to write poetry. ;)

[solarbird]

Pre-existing poem that the photoshop artist was presumably riffing.

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

Nice. Heh.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Here's the first thing I thought of when I saw it:

A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
And munched, and munched, and munched. “Give me,”
quoth I.
“Aroint thee, witch!” the rump-fed runnion cries.
Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' th' Tiger;
But in a sieve I'll thither sail,
And like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.