Friday, November 23, 2007

Capitalism 101 and jokes!

It has been so hard not to comment about the Rock. So many things to say! My amazement is that so many of us fail to understand the mechanisms of oh, capitalism. Damn! There, I have said it!
You invest in an enterprise, it is successful, it pays a dividend, its shares increase in value.
Off you go to the pub to realise some disposable income!
You invest in an enterprise, it is unsuccessful, it does not pay a dividend, its shares decrease in value, it goes tits up. Off you go to the pub to drown your sorrows with some borrowed capital. Nuff said; no whingeing.

Yes the weak business, if it is a failing bank , can have catastrophic effects on ' business sentiment'. If depositors in a bank are constantly worried about getting their boodle when they need it, bad news. Seeing people queue for their money is so 1920s. Not to mention the poor sods who work for the bank and don't have 2 mil. in shares! (Not sure Baroness Dagenham was too worried about decimating the mining communities either!) So where am I?

2 Jokes.

- How can you distinguish stoats from weasles.
Weasles are weasily distingused from stoats which are stotally different.

Thanks to a colleague, with children, for that one.

-Are there any Jews in Northern Ireland?
Yes of course!
But are they Catholic Jews or Protestant Jews?
Protestant Jews of course.
Why?
Don't we all have Orange Jews for breakfast!

Doh!