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This article reminds me of a few of the misplaced, misunderstood aphorisms that Wall Street has appropriated from popular culture… since they have so few original ideas.
“Cash is King” We all know that when the famous Bible thumping music critic Chester Hunkelbum made that comment, he was referring to Johnny Cash. How could he ever know that Wall Street would steal and make it their own?
“It will not be broke by prophet” Okay, Hunkelbum had bad grammar. But he was referring to Abraham the prophet when he tripped and almost broke the 10-commandment stone tablet that Moses had placed in his backpack for safekeeping. Along came some financial adviser who bastardized this into something about not going broke if you take a profit.
“Every ship at the bottom of the ocean has a chartroom” It’s easy to see how Hunkelbum became depressed years later when struggling to maintain his credibility. The computer age was, as he said, “uncharted territory”. As readers began logging off his web site, he lamented, “We’re bottoming. Another ship has left the chat room.” Leave it to Wall Street to snatch this comment and twist it to their liking.
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misunderstood aphorisms that Wall Street has appropriated
from popular culture… since they have so few original ideas.
“Cash is King”
We all know that when the famous Bible thumping music critic
Chester Hunkelbum made that comment, he was referring
to Johnny Cash. How could he ever know that Wall Street
would steal and make it their own?
“It will not be broke by prophet”
Okay, Hunkelbum had bad grammar. But he was referring to
Abraham the prophet when he tripped and almost broke the
10-commandment stone tablet that Moses had placed in his backpack
for safekeeping. Along came some financial adviser who bastardized this
into something about not going broke if you take a profit.
“Every ship at the bottom of the ocean has a chartroom”
It’s easy to see how Hunkelbum became depressed years later when
struggling to maintain his credibility. The computer age was, as he said,
“uncharted territory”. As readers began logging off his web site,
he lamented, “We’re bottoming. Another ship has left the chat room.”
Leave it to Wall Street to snatch this comment and twist it to their liking.
We shall miss Chester Hunkelbum