Derivitives anyone ? :)
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Derivitives anyone ? :)By any chance is anyone here vagualy knowledgable on Derivitives and if so would they mind explaining what they are in laments terms, i've recently been reading a book which extensively refferences them and its making it rather hard to understand and the info google throws out may aswell be in Japanese for all the sense it makes
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)Ha sounds about right from what the book said aswell :L(Original post by Bill_Gates)
financial instruments for screwing people over.
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)Havent they been broken up yet? i thought that delightful man Mr Osbourne was dissolving it?(Original post by Bill_Gates)
Dont bother calling the FSA they wont know :P
mmm in the book it was talking about how BT got a good kicking for selling exploding ones to certain high profile companies who took great exception to this and being called 'a bunch of ****ing idiots who have it coming'
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)lol what book is it?(Original post by cl_steele)
Havent they been broken up yet? i thought that delightful man Mr Osbourne was dissolving it?
mmm in the book it was talking about how BT got a good kicking for selling exploding ones to certain high profile companies who took great exception to this and being called 'a bunch of ****ing idiots who have it coming'
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)F.I.A.S.C.O by Frank Partnoy, quite a good read actually(Original post by Bill_Gates)
lol what book is it?
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)The phrase is "in layman's terms"(Original post by cl_steele)
in laments terms
It refers to somebody who is not of the cloth i.e. not a person of religious authority, but is now generally understood to mean the average person. -
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Re: Derivitives anyone ? :)Im well aware of what it means even if i did get the word wrong...(Original post by xander93)
The phrase is "in layman's terms"
It refers to somebody who is not of the cloth i.e. not a person of religious authority, but is now generally understood to mean the average person.
