the two walk out to a red van and jump in it - mozart drives - the roof is covered in armory: rockets for RPG rocket propelled grenades
mozart flicks on the tv in the van which is tuned to bloomberg channel as the two pull off...
'look man, today's activity - it's gonna cost thousands of dollars in rocket grenades alone, and just wait until you see the targets, they won't be cheap either...
but guess what? courtney, my new finance person, is right on top of it... she's killed it beethoven.... she invested in futures and made a killing...'
'futures?' asked beethoven...
'yeah man, watch that strip at the bottom of the screen... it's telling you a speculated price of corn and wheat 8, 9 and 10 years from today,' responded mozart...
'but how can anyone know how much corn could cost 10 years from today?' asked beethoven...
'well no-one knows for sure, but you can factor in different denominators like likely supply, likely demand, likely change in policies like in brazil they make all their petrols with biofuels......... and then there's the weather.... we study la nina rainfall patterns and make educated guesses....'
'but what's the point?' asked beethoven
'well it's important that the farmers can be guaranteed a good price for their hard work beethoven, by speculating on futures the farmers can invest in a form of insurance for their own product in the event that prices for what they sow aren't up to scratch with what they thought they would be when they planted...'
'wow,' said beethoven....
'yeah wow,' responded mozart
'but isn't it all a form of gambling...'
'i'd have to say no,' answered mozart... 'you see, speculation provides the money for all kinds of business ventures to get off the ground... only a free market system can give research and development and entrepreneurs the support they need...'
'if that's true then why is a centrally planned, authoritarian society like china poised to become the world's biggest economy?' asked beethoven...
'man, we're here, you sure ask a lot of questions.... check out the view!' said mozart expanively...
beethoven saw a hillside covered in grazing cows... maybe mozart wanted to buy some shares in the farm there and move on to some other area to shoot his grenades.... 'are we gonna run down the hill and pat some of the cows?' asked beethoven jokingly....
'no buddy, we're gonna roll down the hill and shoot ALL of the cows, with our RPGs!'
No comments:
Post a Comment