And Now For Something Completely Different

Now is the time most faculty are putting together syllabi for the fall semester. Since I'm in the midst of it too, I was going through my files for anything that might get a chuckle from the class. Here are a few things I came across.

I definitely WON'T share this wonderful example of financial engineering (Courtesy of Barry Ritholtz): Constant Obligation Leveraged Originated Structured Oscillating Money Bridged Asset Guarantees, or COLOSTOMY BAGS.

From the always popular Monty Python, we have The Stock Market Report and The Money Programme

Finally, here's one of my favorite musicians of days past(Dr. Teeth of the Muppets) singinging The Money Song

If you have any others (whether in good taste or not), send them along (or use the comments section).

Hillary / Vote Different Video

I try to stay away from politics on this blog since so many people get so vaporated about the topic that rational discussion becomes almost impossible. But I just saw the anti-Hillary Vote Different video on YouTube and had to comment.

For those of you who don't recognize it, it's a very clever riff on the classic Ridley Scott 1984 Apple ad. What makes it so interesting is that it probably didn't come from the Obama campaign. Most likely someone hacked it together on their home computer (probably a Mac). I think that YouTube will change a lot of the way political attack material gets spread.

And for what it's worth, I'm a supporter of neither Hillary nor Obama.