Your Last Weekly GOOP: Finance

Sometimes it’s better GOOP late than never. Us Bad Guys were in nyc and then contracted an illness that is either h1n1 or the common cold, which is why this little web page has been so quiet. Until now. I have finally gotten the chance to sit down and read last weeks GOOP which was a “Do.” I read about three sentences and then fell asleep which was from nyquil but mostly the words “investing” and “bankers.” augh. This weeks GOOP is about…FINANCE. The most boring of all words in the land. There seems to be this involuntary gloss that goes over my eyes whenever I hear things about: hedge funds, commodites, both types of flation (in and de), IRAs, etc.

This is why I’m a poor girl writing on a blog instead of a ridiculously dashing, handsome, suit-wearing Wall Street trader investment banker guy that is up at 3 am checking Chinese stocks and pounding redbull to make it through to the closing bell. Then, dependent upon the DOW, I either drown my sorrows or celebrate at Scores with $4000 worth of strippers, champagne, redbull and blow until 1am. Man. What a good life that must be that I don’t lead.

Anyway. Gwyn was really nice to try to help people with their money instead of telling them to buy dresses they can’t afford and stay at hotels most people who aren’t married to Cold Play Guy can’t afford. Which is why I put up a really pretty picture of Gern today. Do you see the correlation with this? Say stupid shit= ugly picture. Say nice things/be awesome = pretty picture. It’s really simple. Just like this explanation of hedge funds:

“Most hedge funds use those basic assets discussed above, but do things with them so that the return is different than the assets themselves. The result is that the returns that hedge funds deliver will be different than what you would receive if you owned the stocks, bonds, or commodities themselves.”