Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Black Holes and Markets

Goldman Sachs have predicted (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/) a bumper year for equities in 2010, when will they ever learn, the answer is blowin' in the wind. I fear that the markets are headed for another black hole, none of the fundamentals which caused the crisis in 2008/2009 have changed. And the banks are about to reward themselves with record bonuses - now that the taxpayer has bailed them all out. As for black holes.......

HAWKING

There was a man called Hawking,
Who loved to spend time thinking,
One day he said there are black holes,
And not the kind made by moles.

Hawking said they were in outer space,
To find them the astronomers now race,
Trouble is you cannot see black nothing,
But so far it hasn’t stopped them looking.

One day a spaceship will go and look,
But what awaits it I fear is a giant hook,
A black hole apparently consumes the lot,
The missing ship all that marks the spot.

On the other side of the black nothing,
Can we ever know what is waiting?
Perhaps it will be another universe,
Searching for their cousin-converse.

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