Market ... oh irrational market

The Market is a funny thing. It (whatever it is) reacts to things like fear and excitement. The stock (and bond and futures and other things that I have no hope of maybe ever understanding) market reacts to feelings, actual real human feelings. So a recession or something like it is a product of people's collective feelings about the future and current value of any given thing. However, the actors in the system (investors and consumers) also react to things that happen in the market, like the changing price of fuel or the change in relative value of the S&P 500. So is it all just made up and a product of one big huge psychological disorder? Sounds like it to me. Luckily, one big thing might change soon, and that's the leadership of this country. I think we need one big giant psychologist to help us out of this muck. Anybody up for it? This probably makes very little sense unless you are in my mind. Maybe I'll unpack it better next time. For now, I'm off to bowl in Manhattan.

Quadruple Fives

Tonight, Grant and his brother were playing backgammon while I researched Ayurvedic stuff on the internet. His brother was completely smoking him and had about one roll left before the game was over. On Grant's next turn he yelled out "quadruple fives!" His brother responded, "if you get it, you win." So Grant took his brother's dice, shook all four together in his hands, and lo and behold... he actually rolled quadruple fives. Someone please comment on the probability of that happening and don't forget to factor in that he called it.

I wonder what else he knows...