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Money, TV, Tragedy

10.23.07 | Comment?

Earlier today one of my online email sites showed an advertisement promising, to those who opened a trading account, a copy of Currency Trading for Dummies.  I don’t know much about this, but I do know that the daily volume is well over a trillion dollars.  That should give the average day trader an idea of what a vast scale is needed to make a profit on tiny margins.  As a hedge it may be smart investing, but I suspect many people dipping their toes into forex are speculating.

That’s up to them.  Be a dumbass if that’s what you want.  Me, I have better things to do. I have heard from a trusted source that the final DVD box set of The Sopranos has arrived at Casa Dempsey.  I can now finally discover how the series ends, having spent the last several months dodging the entire popular culture’s attempts to spoil the last episode for me.  Enough peripheral noise has leaked in to taint my enjoyment, I suspect.  However, I am in the midst of the second season of Oz, and will finish that first.  As a writer I can pick plenty of holes in the framework of that show, but the relationships between characters are beautifully rendered.  They are currently working up to what I assume is a sickening act of betrayal.

Speaking of sickening, this is doubly so.  I nearly had this happen once, when a city bus turned right in front of me.  I was lucky in that I was leery of this happening and was hanging back and managed to hop up onto the curb in time.  Two people in the last two weeks have not been so lucky.

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