Sunday, September 7, 2014

Bank, CVS and Atlantic City

They're not related but they're today's news.

* Without enforcing, the bank regulations cannot compete with the bonus money that the bankers are counting with their filthy hands in their mansions instead in the big house. The most stupidest action is giving these criminals bonus money from our taxes. Who said crimes do not pay?

* I will have a chain named CVS Unhealth. Besides selling the regular stuffs CVS carries I include the most profitable items: the new legalized drugs. I expect to double the profit than a regular CVS store. Who said we do not have new opportunities in our generation?

* All casinos in Atlantic City are burning. One new casino in NYC area made back all the money in less than a month with slot machines only. Slot machine gambling (wrong term?) is a fool's game. They may tell you that for 100 quarters you put in, you can 95 (most likely 80 if they do not advertise) quarters back if you do it 1,000 times. Too bad simple maths is not taught in school.

A tale of two losers


* EU is burning. It must be in a W-shaped recession that we rarely see.

* Is Japan a dead cat bouncing? I guess it is. The government is repeating the tools they have been used without success in the last two decades. Why you think it will work this time?


Both use the same tool: Printing more money and lower the interest rate.

Cloud computing

Cloud is still too cloudy. Corporations have to solve: (1) how to make money and (2) how to make it secure. No easy tasks.

The myth of improving employment

Employment still does not look good if you consider the declining median income. When your friend finds a job that pays only half of his previous salary, he will not spend recklessly like our government. But the government says the unemployment is decreased by 1.

Unemployment will stay the same for years due to the side effect of globalization as corporations can find the cheapest and best employees any where in this planet.

Anatomny of a joke

A church-goer told me that my jokes were not funny in front of many of my friends. My readers including fund managers, business owners and professionals told me otherwise. My conclusion is that you need an education to understand my jokes, so I do not blame her. An open mind helps but it is not required.

As defined by me, the anatomy of a joke is something that is unusual unless you’re 10 year old or younger. It has one or all of the criteria below.

- Ridiculously exaggerated.
- Body (female and male) parts we do not discuss/show normally unless you have something extraordinary.
- Words with double meaning.

So, about 30% of the jokes are about sex. If you do not believe me, turn on the cable TV tonight, count and classify the jokes.

Here is one good example of a good joke (not written by me) to satisfy most criteria described above. It is brief and effective. It is a classical joke written many years ago and was widely distributed. The writer should get a Nobel Prize (exaggerated) to make so many folks laugh in just a short time without costing anything. Here it is:

We were supposed to have 8″ of snow in Boston, but there was no snow. The beautiful but naive anchor lady asked the weather man, “Hi Tony, what happened to the 8″ (double meaning, sex and exaggerated) you promised me last night?” The whole staff in the set laughed so loudly that they’ve to go on commercial for the next hour.

Yell Yelp

Not a single comment on YELP today when there is news on this stock.

I do not believe it will be a good stock from my own experiences. I went to a Thai restaurant recently based on the many good recommendations. It is outrageously lousy and cannot compete with similar restaurants in the area. Most comments must be written by the friends and family members of the owners. Never depend on YELP again unless they can control their commentators.

Lucky Tesla stock owners

For the lucky stock owners of this stock, use stop orders to protect your profit. As Newton said, what goes up must come down. It usually comes down faster than it climbs up. It is not fundamentally sound. Watch out for the institution investors. The new technology of battery could change the entire world to make all current car batteries obsolete; it is under development at MIT.

I prefer "Buy low and sell high" instead of "Buy high and sell higher". It is only me.