Friday, November 28, 2008

Are we getting our money's worth?

The Doser considers them to be very fragile pontifications when the stock market next day quarterbacks say: "The market went up because of a report of (something)" or "... the market went down because of (such and such) event." The Doser wonders if there might not be devised a scientific way to measure the effectiveness of the bail-outs, for example. Perhaps a connection to the the stock market's "up blips." How many blips, we could ask, can we get for a billion - at today's prices?

or - on a reminiscent note .......

The Big Three auto builders seem to be acting like school boys in the Asst. Principal's office: "See, I did my home-work. Shouldn't I get an 'A'?"

or - on a definition of "Change" note ......

There is a red led light on The Doser's toaster! Presumably to find out where it is should it, or The Doser, get lost in the dark. We are going to have to change our ways (not just our banks, credit card jumble, government bailings, foreign policy) We are going to have to modify our profligate ways to get out of this.

.... and on an encouraging note......

Portland, Oregon, needs to spend several million dollars for bridges. Mere bagatelles! Only six measly zeros! We're calmly talking nine zeros and twelve zeros these days.(All of those zeros are to the left of the decimal point too.)

1 comment:

Atticus said...

I have been intrigued that they always report a reason when the market goes up or down. "Joe the Plumber's mother came to visit him today and the market is down". I think of these as financial weather reports.

I have noticed that we now speak of billions when we are talking about real money and we now get back a million dollars in change. But like somebody said, "A million here and a million there and pretty soon it adds up to real money".