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Old 04-16-2010, 09:45 AM
Charles Charles is offline
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
Just how do the people up there survive without the freedom to gamble on unproven financial instruments? Life isn't worth living without the unfettered opportunity to lose your nest egg to unregulated shysters. Damn socialists.
I've been saying for some time that derivatives are like side bets on a crap game. And the boys on the side are betting IOU's.

At least in a crap game if you can't cover your bets somebody is gonna slice you up with a razor instead of putting you in charge of the game.

Chas
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