Financiers can be funny.
那本厚的像砖一样,每次一打开五分钟后我就会立马睡着的investment里面,总算有点让我不会睡着的东西了。最后那一句抱歉don mclean尤其搞笑。
Humble Pie
(sung to the tune of "American Pie")
A long, long week ago
I can still remember how the market used to make me smile
What I'd do when I had the chance
Is get myself a cash advance
And add another tech stock to the pile.
But Alan Greenspan made me shiver
With every speech that he delivered
Bad news on the rate front
Still I'd take one more punt
I can't remember if I cried
When I heard about the CPI
I lost my fortune and my pride
The day the NASDAQ died
So bye-bye to my piece of the pie
I poured my paycheck into Datek
Now my cash account's dry
It's just two weeks from a new all-time high
And now we're right back where we were in July
We're right back where we were in July
Did you buy stocks you never heard of?
Q COM at 150 or above?
'Cos your plumber told you so
Now do you believe in Home Depot?
Can Wal-Mart save your portfolio?
And can you teach me what's a P/E ratio?
Well, I know that you were leveraged too
So you can't just take a long-term view
Your broker shut you down
No more margin could be found
I never worried on the whole way up
Buying dot coms from the back of a pickup truck
But Friday I ran out of luck
It was the day the NAAAASDAQ died
I started singin'
Bye-bye to my piece of the pie
I poured my paycheck into Datek
Now my cash account's dry
It's just two weeks from a new all-time high
And now we're right back where we were in July
Yeah we're right back where we were in July
Now for ten days, we've been on our own
And E-trade won't pick up the phone
But that's not how it used to be
When investors snapped up EMC
With cash they borrowed easily
And a quote that flashed up permanently green
Oh, and just as things were turning 'round
Joel Klein slapped Mister Softee down
The courtroom was adjourned
Guilty verdicts were returned
And while Gilder read a book on quarks
Buffet smirked and Greenspan barked
The bulls were eaten by the sharks
The day the NASDAQ died
I started singin' ...
Manic panic, it's just like the Titanic
Unsinkable and now under the Atlantic
We're at four thou and falling fast
All at once the bottom-fishers pounced
But that just caused a dead-cat bounce
'Cos Mister Softee, from the sidelines, preannounced
Now the graph-lines showed complete collapse
While the margin calls were coming fast
We all were forced to sell
Our Apple, E-Bay and Intel
Then the bear funds moved to take the field
And the long bond shed a point of yield
Was Glass-Steagall ever really repealed?
The day the NASDAQ day
We started singing...
Oh, and suddenly we're underwater
Millionaires all hot and bothered
With no cash left to buy again
So come on, Fed be anxious, com-pen-sate
By lowering the discount rate
'Cause easy money is a bubble's only friend
Oh, and as I watched the index fall
I received the dreaded margin call
No broker born in hell
Could make me want to sell
But as my gains fell fast into the crash
E-Trade began demanding cash
The talking heads were talking trash
The day the NASDAQ died
They were singing...
I met an analyst for Micromuse
I asked him for their earnings news
But he just smiled and turned away
I logged on to the trading floor
Where I made my fortune weeks before
But they demanded to see cash before I played
And on T.V. the ticker streamed
Kudlow cried and Barton dreamed
Not a bullish word was spoken
The daytraders were choking
And the three stocks I acquired last
AMAT, Dell and Infocast
Couldn't catch a bid and faded fast
The day the NASDAQ died
And they were singing
Bye-bye to my piece of the pie
I poured my paycheck into Datek
Now my cash account's dry
It's just two weeks from a new all-time high
And now we're right back where we were in July
Yeah we're right back where we were in July
Copyright 2000: Sean Brady and Tom Kearney
Posted with apologies to Don McLeanhttp://www.levitt.co.uk/versions.html
在豆瓣上看到的,据说是电影别惹我里面的一段。我怎么一点印象都没有。
“我有一把白色塑胶雨伞。买的时候喜欢它雪白可爱,瘦瘦长长,简直像个鹤立鸡群的美女。可惜这种美丽偏偏不耐看,风吹雨打久了,颜色变黄,还多了雀斑一样的污迹。而且瘦长是没用的,哪里像折伞这么善解人意。于是,我开始制造各种机会。
趁着下雨带它出门,左搁一会儿,右放一下,希望一下子大意忘了拿,让它自动消失,大家无痛分手。我就可以理直气壮买一把新的,多好!
失宠的人通常最敏感。
有一天,它突如其来消失了,完全不用花我任何心思。伞也有它的自尊。问题是,等一等,我还没有准备好。不行,它不可以没经我的同意就玩失踪。我便一心一意要找它回来,花尽心思去想,到底在哪里弄丢的呢?书店,餐厅还是公共汽车地铁呢?
真是峰回路转,没想到在戏院把它找回来,小别重逢,它苦着副脸在等我来新发现。重拾旧欢,大团圆结局。
换一个角度来看,如果我失败了,找不到它,它永远消失了,淡淡的遗憾感觉,会不会更合我心意?
人世间的破镜重圆,大概都是一言难尽。”