How We Got Into This Financial Mess, a parable...

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As a stockbroker gets out of is BMW, a car slams into the door, shearing it off. When the police arrive, the stockbroker is apoplectic.

"See what that idiot did to my beautiful BMW?" he shouts,
"Do you know what this car cost?"

"Sir," says the officer, "you're so worried about your car that you haven't even noticed that your arm was ripped off."

The stockbroker takes a look at where his arm once was and screams...

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"Where is my Rolex?!" 


Reader's Digest [Aust. ed.]; May 2009

:-( -> :-| -> :-)
DL 
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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference... and the sense of humor when I don't know the difference."

--Joel Goodman adding to Reinhold Niebuhr