Trading Places
Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. - Seth Klarman; Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor What has been told, albino made of stone Just remember that it's flesh and bone. - Pawn Shop; Sublime No, You don’t know Diddley. - Nike Commercial [07.11.1989] Not many comedy movies include a NYMEX commodity trading floor much less an interesting plot, real acting & dynamic characters. Trading Places [1983] isn’t the authors goal but when answering questions to a surfing pal … useful ‘metaphors we live by’ [great book] may be applicable. The scene with Bo Diddley was a classic. Big fan of Delta Blues and generational legends of the guitar. Director Aaron Russo was known to be a very interesting guy and later had skeptical questions about where the wold was going… some say he was an agent being too close to the Rockefeller’s.. perhaps but in the end we revert to Marcus ...
