Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...crew found them. The idea is to let ordinary museumgoers see the evidence from which paleontologists make their leaps of reasoning and imagination. They will be able to argue, for instance, over the only tyrannosaurus arm ever found. It is about as long as a human arm -- too short, in Horner's view, to be much use in predation, but far more muscular than previously thought, having been capable of curling 400 lbs. Horner seems to relish arguing such questions imaginatively far more than actually proving himself right. In Horner's undogmatic approach, the museum's fleshed-out dioramas...
...could you have made money last month! The first thing to have done was to sell stocks short -- any stocks -- and buy puts, little bets that stocks will go down. (Selling short means selling shares you don't own -- by borrowing them -- in hopes they'll be cheaper when you buy them back...
...obvious thing, whatever that happens to be at the moment. Once it's obvious, it's too late. You will lose money. Should you buy oil stocks, because oil prices are "obviously" headed up? Or short the auto companies? Oil stocks are already up dramatically over the past couple of years (and auto stocks are down), and you and I are not the first ones to think of these things. Better to do something less obvious, like buying an apartment in New York City. The only reason I can think of to do it, at some fire-sale price...
...want to hedge against disaster, buy puts on stocks you think have further to drop, or on market indexes as a whole (your broker will be falling all over himself to explain this to you). Don't short stocks. Unless you're a very seasoned investor, it's just too risky (and it means you have to pay dividends, on top of commissions, not earn them). Buy puts only on days when the crisis seems to be over and the market has boomed -- and assume that whatever you do spend on puts is money you'll never see again. Because...
That death therefore haunts his Dreams, his 28th film, is not surprising. In the first of these eight short narratives -- all, according to the great director, drawn from incidents and images of his sleep -- a child, obviously the young Kurosawa, is introduced to the idea of mortality. On a day both sunny and rainy, his mother warns him not to leave the house. In such weather foxes hold their weddings, and they take a terrible vengeance on those who spy on their secret ceremonies. Of course, the boy must see this woodland spectacle (wonderfully realized by masked dancers...