The road less travelled…
The famous Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" describes a man arriving at two divergent but similar roads in a wood. He scans in both directions to grasp the merits of either course and can only establish one difference between his options; one of the paths appears to be less worn, less "traveled" in Frosts description. He decides to take this route consoling himself briefly with the notion that he can always return to "the first for another day".
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The Big Kahuna
There was a concept that traders and salespeople on investment bank trading floors used to discuss from time to time - usually on slow days where folks were dreaming of a better life post banking - the so called "retirement trade". This was the big one - a huge one-off trade that was sufficiently large and profitable that it would carry said executor happily to an early retirement. Rarely did these fabled beasts ever become a reality - there were profitable trades often, of course, but the big kahuna rarely appeared.
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Greece my palm
Finding interesting things to write about in the financial world these days isn't all that tricky. The helter skelter of the ongoing economic crisis has provided ample daily "copy" to the worlds financial commentators - it's like a Tiger Woods style scandal appearing every day of the week for the tabloid press - a proverbial "field day".
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