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Monday, January 19, 2009

Metaphor

There is no hole, this is one of those sidewalk chalk drawings. The one guy appears to be walking around the hole that is not there.

Assuming that is true (and not that he is walking around what he knows is a drawing) there must be an investing metaphor there somewhere.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

You and financial stocks. lol

Anonymous said...

Maybe that's the hole that my money went down when it went to money heaven.

Anonymous said...

The ability of some readers here to grasp the concept of buy and hold. Yukkity yuk.

Anonymous said...

Hey Roger, in case you missed it, Bespoke has a good post up on the historical weightings of the S&P sectors. Their pictograph makes nice art.

----t h rive---- said...

the "buy and hole-d" comment is the best one.

fyi - these drawings (really amazing) only "work" from a certain angle range. Assuming that's where the camera is, that guy's probably walking around a chalk drawing and trying to figure out what it is...

vincent said...

It might be my imagination but from the subway sign, the picture looks to have been taken at "place de la bourse" station, ie in front of some stock-market place in Europe :)))

Anonymous said...

The 'guy' is a drawing, too. It's actually a hommage to Gold Bugs.

Anonymous said...

Roger,
FWIW- Athbo, who is certainly no fan of Obama, has gone bullish for a possible run to 1155 by July:

http://athbo.squarespace.com/storage/SPX%20compressed%20Daily%20HS%20into%20July%2009.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1231249177721

He is one of the very best technical market analysts I know.

Anonymous said...

Its a metaphor for your industry - "investing".

People finnaly are realizing that it is fake and is really a "compensation scheme" rather then "investing" and are avoiding it like the plage.

Why is it the "investment managers" seem to be better paid then the "investors" LOL.

Anonymous said...

----t h rive----,

Actually, a number of years ago (7 or 8), I was at a gallery that had numerous rooms, and along one wall of each room was a series of paintings that were residential interiors, and as the viewer walked along, it was as if it was "real" (although the viewer had to be about 8-10 feet away, to get the right effect).

jan

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