Derivative Markets

An easily understandable explanation of derivative markets.

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.

To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers [...]

from mom with love

Dear Child,

I am writing this slow because I know that you can’t read fast.

We don’t live where we did when you left home.

Your dad read in the paper that most accidents happen within 20 miles from your home so we moved.

I won’t be able to send you the address, as the [...]

steve?

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funny prayer

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they [...]

travelling to Israel

Rabbi Rabinovitz is going on holiday to Israel. He arrives at Heathrow Airport and goes to have his luggage checked in. “Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” asks the girl at the check-in desk. Rabbi Rabinovitz replies, “Listen, if it was without my knowledge, how should I know?”

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man gives up on woman

Atlanta native auto mechanic Michael Ross publicly declares he has given up the long time struggle to figure out what women really want. This came after a recently published report estimating American corporations had spent over $1 billion dollars in 2001 to determine what want women want from their products and marketing, and had largely [...]

Current Economic Scene in One Picture

This financial crisis deepens and this is forcing government agencies to make some tough decisions. If things continue in the same fashion for much longer, there’s a real risk that they may have to lay off Jose.

Tags: business, depression, economy, Jose

fifty year sentence

A couple goes out to dinner to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. On the way home, she notices a tear in his eye and asks if he’s getting sentimental because they’re celebrating 50 wonderful years together.

He replies, No, I was thinking about the time before we got married. Your father threatened me with a [...]

funny truck

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What have we learned in 2,100 years

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.”

- Cicero – 55 BC

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