Bonds Are a 'Safe' Investment: A Big Lie Gets Even Bigger
Walmart's New Health Food Push: Is It Too Hard to Swallow?Today, Time Warner closed at 17.40, a gain of 0.23%.
But what does a gain of 0.23% mean? Well, allow me to put that in perspective for you:
- François Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cent Coups) won him the
Best Director Award at
Cannes in 1959. A 0.23% gain would've forced the Film Festival to praise him instead for The 400.92 Blows. - In the Biblical story of Noah's flood, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. With a 0.23% gain, it would have rained for 40.092 days and 40.092 nights.
- Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Water would freeze at 32.0736 degrees Fahrenheit with a 0.23% gain.
- In the sport of bike racing, a racer said to be "dying a thousand deaths" when struggling to hang on to the pack.With a 0.23% gain, he would be "dying a thousand-two-point-three deaths."
- “… Baby One More Time” was the Britney Spears megahit of 1998. A 0.23% gain would have changed the hit to “… Baby One-point-zero-zero-two-three More Times.”
That, finance fans, is what a 0.23% gain means.
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