Benefactor: Finance Is the Bunk, by Alfred Lawson — Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 - Next

to pay us fifty-four dollars more for the interest on the mortgage.”
 So you scratch your head and say, “Well, that isn’t so bad. If I hadn’t got that six dollars for nothing I would have had to pay the whole sixty dollars.” And so you think you are smart again. You say, “Well, my gracious, that’s a deep game.” “Anyway,” you say. “I’m going to make nine hundred dollars on every share of that stock I bought.”
 So you go over to find out about the stock that you bought for a hundred dollars a share; and you ask the fellow about the nine hundred dollars a share that you were going to make on the stock.
 “Well, yes, you may make it,” says he, “if you wait long enough.”
 “Well, you ask, how much have I made already?”
 “Oh,” says he, “you haven’t made anything

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