Soon the sheeple and the bears were worrying about an imminent downturn, but that was not the end of the story as supply had not gotten permanently out of line with affordable demand. After a brief correction in the green paint manufactoring industry, new sheeple were ready to take on economic risk spurred on by [...]
A tale of three species
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Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away there was a strange planet upon which lived three different kinds of creatures, bulls, bears, and sheeple. The bulls were eternally optimistic risk-takers and speculators, always willing to strike a quick a deal, forever living in the present, and sometimes borrowing to increase their standard [...]
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