la volatilidá 2

continua el periodo de volatilidad en los mercados. Ayer al Dow marcó un máximo histórico intradía (14 mil puntitos). El IPC perdió 91 puntos pero durante la jornada llegó a estar más de 200 abajo. El petróleo como que quiere bajar pero nomas no. Hoy habló Bernanke y dijo que bla bla bla bla bla bla y la inflación bla bla bla y las subprime bla bla y que everything is going to be all right forever y bla bla...

chiste de economistas:

Experienced economist and not so experienced economist are walking down the road. They get across shit lying on the asphalt. Experienced economist: "If you eat it I'll give you $20,000!"
Not so experienced economist runs his optimization problem and figures out he's better off eating it so he does and collects money.
Continuing along the same road they almost step into yet another shit.
Not so experienced economist: "Now, if YOU eat this shit I'll give YOU $20,000."
After evaluating the proposal experienced economist eats shit getting the money.
They go on. Not so experienced economist starts thinking: "Listen, we both have the same amount of money we had before, but we both ate shit. I don't see us being better off."
Experienced economist: "Well, that's true, but you overlooked the fact that we've been just involved in $40,000 of trade."

tomado de acá.