couldn’t imagine it, I needed to go someplace that had no rules and was full of crooks. I considered Washington, D.C., but Albania looked like more fun. † Phased out of the commodities market in 2011 due to “changes in the bacon market,” much to the regret of would-be financial humorists. ‡ There are exceptions, of course. Hillary Clinton made $99,517 trading cattle futures between October 1978 and July 1979. This could lead to tasteless jokes about Mrs. Clinton getting inside information from the cows at NOW, if one were inclined to that type of coarse, sexist humor. § 747 that exploded shortly after takeoff from JFK airport. The explosion was the result of an electrical short-circuit in a fuel storage tank. But the widespread and rapidly proliferating rumors about the cause of the accident are considered to be the “grandfather of Internet conspiracy theories.” ¶ Where: C, S, N, 1n, and K = things you don’t understand And r, s, t, and e = things you don’t want to know ** Oops. My prediction of the timing of the 2008 crash was a bit off, and my prediction for its reason was way, way off. The damn baby boom still hasn’t retired.
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