battles of the cultures was: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3548

I don't really have it yet; this is just the pre-A in finance's ABCs. I decided I didn't like this analogy because it implies an automatic physical process. A better one would have been to talk about seed corn--which is where we the saying of eating one's seed corn. One well-tended seed (or dollar) can produce thousands depending on the type of biz it is in. A seed corn example also infers that there has to be different kinds of human intervention to keep the product from becoming a weed run amok.

Yup. That's why physicists are being hired by brokers, etc. instead of MBAs. They can do the math.

Thank you! Another mystery out of my life :-).

Pension funds are going to be a pesky problem, I think. They already are becoming a PITA if I infer correctly based on my stockholder proposals.

It's called too much money in the form of liquid buttets acquired too quickly.

Based on the discussions I've been having here for the last year, that's normal.

I suppose that's how my wordroyalty got to be royal. It was the few who could plan long-term (and not no five-year limit) that learned over the generations how to manage households that became the size of nations.

BAH