But how many ocean munching whirlpool sucking monsters do they have?

Maybe one poem alludes to the other.
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I thought it was the Illiad and the Odyssey? I've already previously stated my reading is almost 100% confined to non-fiction and I was never assigned to read Homer at any time in school.Xan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:03 pmSurely that's the Odyssey, though, right?yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:54 pmI believe you are correct!dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:37 pmMust be Scylla and Charybdis. “Between a rock and a hard place.”yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:38 pm
12) On the first page of the book he quotes from Homer's Illiad poem (never read it). One mythological woman in it has six heads with teeth that would make JAWS seem tiny while she had six ferocious dogs around her waste. The other mythological woman swallowed whole oceans and then caused whirlpools. I forget which one he chose to accept as the lesser risk. But he analogizes the risks presented by each with the risks the Fed assesses in taking their actions in that they are forced to make the choice between two bad outcomes.
Vinny
The Iliad is one epic poem, about the fall of Ilium, also known as Troy. The Odyssey is the sequel about Odysseus's journey back home.yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:26 pmI thought it was the Illiad and the Odyssey? I've already previously stated my reading is almost 100% confined to non-fiction and I was never assigned to read Homer at any time in school.Xan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:03 pmSurely that's the Odyssey, though, right?yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:54 pmI believe you are correct!dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:37 pmMust be Scylla and Charybdis. “Between a rock and a hard place.”yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:38 pm
12) On the first page of the book he quotes from Homer's Illiad poem (never read it). One mythological woman in it has six heads with teeth that would make JAWS seem tiny while she had six ferocious dogs around her waste. The other mythological woman swallowed whole oceans and then caused whirlpools. I forget which one he chose to accept as the lesser risk. But he analogizes the risks presented by each with the risks the Fed assesses in taking their actions in that they are forced to make the choice between two bad outcomes.
Vinny
Vinny
It's an origin story for Rome itself! Pretty neat.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:09 pm They're also mentioned in the Aeneid, which is about Trojans who survived the war and escaped to eventually found Rome.
Checked that first page of the book and you are, indeed, correct. Not that I was doubting you. And, I'm even more impressed that you knew how to spell each of those names!dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:37 pmMust be Scylla and Charybdis. “Between a rock and a hard place.”yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:38 pm
12) On the first page of the book he quotes from Homer's Illiad poem (never read it). One mythological woman in it has six heads with teeth that would make JAWS seem tiny while she had six ferocious dogs around her waste. The other mythological woman swallowed whole oceans and then caused whirlpools. I forget which one he chose to accept as the lesser risk. But he analogizes the risks presented by each with the risks the Fed assesses in taking their actions in that they are forced to make the choice between two bad outcomes.
I have a memory of a book from my high school days -- Edith Hamilton - Mythology.
We did! Here. Lionel Shriver has written some damn funny articles recently too.yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:39 pm
In his conclusion he had this: "The best depiction of life after a financial collapse is found in The Mandibles, a brilliant 2016 novel by the award-winning author Lionel Shriver. The novel offers details of an economic collapse in 2029, but is mostly concerned with the lives of everyday people living in the aftermath."
He then gave much detail about that book. Anyone here read it? It caused me to also buy that book tonight and it will be one of my RARE fiction book reads.
Vinny
Thanks! It was almost exactly a year ago to the day that you first wrote about it. I will read that New Yorker review tonight. I bought the book used at Amazon so it will arrive at some point in the next week or two. When it arrives I'll try to find time to make it one of those books that I read from start to finish in one sitting.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:58 pmWe did! Here. Lionel Shriver has written some damn funny articles recently too.yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:39 pm
In his conclusion he had this: "The best depiction of life after a financial collapse is found in The Mandibles, a brilliant 2016 novel by the award-winning author Lionel Shriver. The novel offers details of an economic collapse in 2029, but is mostly concerned with the lives of everyday people living in the aftermath."
He then gave much detail about that book. Anyone here read it? It caused me to also buy that book tonight and it will be one of my RARE fiction book reads.
Vinny
I did read the New Yorker review of the book plus followed the link to here and also read this....https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opin ... .html?_r=0.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:58 pmWe did! Here. Lionel Shriver has written some damn funny articles recently too.yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:39 pm
In his conclusion he had this: "The best depiction of life after a financial collapse is found in The Mandibles, a brilliant 2016 novel by the award-winning author Lionel Shriver. The novel offers details of an economic collapse in 2029, but is mostly concerned with the lives of everyday people living in the aftermath."
He then gave much detail about that book. Anyone here read it? It caused me to also buy that book tonight and it will be one of my RARE fiction book reads.
Vinny
I started reading her book tonight. Just read this:Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:58 pmWe did! Here. Lionel Shriver has written some damn funny articles recently too.yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:39 pm
In his conclusion he had this: "The best depiction of life after a financial collapse is found in The Mandibles, a brilliant 2016 novel by the award-winning author Lionel Shriver. The novel offers details of an economic collapse in 2029, but is mostly concerned with the lives of everyday people living in the aftermath."
He then gave much detail about that book. Anyone here read it? It caused me to also buy that book tonight and it will be one of my RARE fiction book reads.
Vinny
Then a few paragraphs later I come across this!yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:02 pmI started reading her book tonight. Just read this:Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:58 pmWe did! Here. Lionel Shriver has written some damn funny articles recently too.yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:39 pm
In his conclusion he had this: "The best depiction of life after a financial collapse is found in The Mandibles, a brilliant 2016 novel by the award-winning author Lionel Shriver. The novel offers details of an economic collapse in 2029, but is mostly concerned with the lives of everyday people living in the aftermath."
He then gave much detail about that book. Anyone here read it? It caused me to also buy that book tonight and it will be one of my RARE fiction book reads.
Vinny
Using the powers vested in your president by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, I am calling in all gold reserves held in private hands. Gold-mining operations within our borders will be required to sell ore exclusively to the United States Treasury. Gold stocks, exchange-traded funds, and bullion will likewise be transferred to the Treasury. In contrast to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s gold nationalization of 1933, when FDR made his bold bid to rescue our suffering nation from the Great Depression, there will be no exceptions for jewelers or jewelry. All such patriotic forfeitures will be compensated by weight, albeit at a rate that does not reflect the hysterical inflation of gold stocks in the lead-up to this emergency. Hoarding will not be tolerated. Punitive fines of up to $250,000 will be levied on those who fail to comply. Retaining gold in any form beyond the deadline of November 30, 2029, will thenceforth be considered a criminal offense, punishable by no less than ten years in prison.
All gold exports from our shores are henceforth prohibited. In retaliation for outside agitators’ attempts to fray the very fabric of our flag, all foreign gold reserves currently stored with the Federal Reserve are hereby confiscated, and become the property of the American government.
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Good thing I was also listening to Bruce Springsteen's Roalita while I was reading that as a counter balance!
Vinny
The above is obviously what you wrote. And, in his summary, here is what he wrote: "Investment Secret #3: Beware the hidden hand of behavioral manipulation. Watch out for nudges."Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:05 pm
Some parts of the book are genuinely fascinating, such as his discussion on the concept of choice architecture. He likens the beeping sounds your car makes when you leave the lights on as the same kind of "nudge" that 401K offering forms have to steer you into saving.