Business and the Economy

[Mudcat]

The Brooklyn Nets are for sale btw. Prokhorov wants out.

We should pool our funds and buy them. I still have 7 dollars sitting here doing nothing.

 

[Mudcat]

What did the Clippers sell for? 2 billion dollars I think?

So if we are pooling our funds to get the Nets, assuming they're the same, with what I've got here, we just need another . . . lemme see . . . 2 billion dollars.


:muddy:

 

[FairWarning]

What did the Clippers sell for? 2 billion dollars I think?

So if we are pooling our funds to get the Nets, assuming they're the same, with what I've got here, we just need another . . . lemme see . . . 2 billion dollars.


:muddy:

If the Barclay Center is included, it could sell for more.

 

[Mudcat]

Interesting to contemplate that at some point in the morning that picture was taken, that guy looked in the mirror and thought, 'That's just right.'

 

[Matty]

I think it very brave of you to assume that that's a guy.

 

[Mudcat]

 

[reno cool]

guy seems cool to me.

 

[Matty]

I'm 50/50 on whether that's a man or woman.

 

[bacon]

75% man

 

[reno cool]

well, that coat looks like lady's coat

 

[MrX]

It would never have occurred to me that that might be a man.

 

[Mudcat]

Just the opposite here.

My brain immediately went to: Phil Spector. I mean I realized pretty quick it wasn't actually Phil Spector, but once I had the notion, my thinking kinda locked in on: man.

 

[MrX]

Well, I think we can all agree that they're a fine specimen, regardless of gender.

 

[bacon]

I wonder how that she/he would feel about being the centerpiece of our Business and the Economy thread thus far? I'd imagine the same facial expression would take place for that or just about anything else.

 

[Mudcat]

The loonie (Canadian dollar) shed 0.79 of a cent to 79.08 cents US, its lowest level since early April, 2009.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/loonie-moves-further-below-80-us-cents-1.2211423#ixzz3QElqW2XO



Sure. That makes sense. That was right around the time I folded my business which was conducted entirely in US dollars - which cost me 10's of thousands of dollars as the Canadian dollar systematically strengthened basically the whole time I was running it.

But yeah, go ahead and do that now.

 

[roguejuror]

why they call it a loonie?

 

[FairWarning]

why they call it a loonie?

Named after the Canadian Loon.

 

[Mudcat]

why they call it a loonie?

It has a picture of a loon on it, a bird which is fairly common in Canada.

Loon

Loonie