Comments on: Shop before we drop

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:10:20 +0000

Why not Google?

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:39:34 +0000

you still have a live broker?

i thought you only found those in a museum these days.

By: SteveSgt

SteveSgt — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:14:14 +0000

My perspective on this was well put by author and humorist Douglas Adams:
“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

By: Briantist

Briantist — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:53:59 +0000

It’s a bit like being lowered down a long vertical cliff on a rope in a thick fog.

You’ve cut the rope (when you metaphorically buy the shares) and you’ve just got to hope you’re close enough to the ground not to die.