{"id":4799,"date":"2008-10-04T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2009-04-25T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:42:15","slug":"the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4799\/the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know a guy who makes stupid money. He doesn’t even call it money. He calls it trump.<\/p>\n

“I make sick trump,” he once told me. (Stupid money.)<\/p>\n

“I have a Hot Mess at home,” he continued. “And she’s<\/em> sick, too.” (An attractive girlfriend with a drinking problem.)<\/p>\n

“It’s ill.” (Troubling.)<\/p>\n

According to this guy, a derivatives trader at the Chicago Merc, if you don’t make 30\/40 (million per year) you’re not a Whale. (A sick big spender with a lot of trump and at least one Hot Mess at at least one sick home.)<\/p>\n

“30\/40 is the magic number. You can buy all the whores in Sin City with that kind of trump.” (Duh. Even I figured that and I don’t really have a head for math.)<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, he met his own Hot Mess at the Paris Las Vegas. They were doing ice block Southern Comfort shots (don’t ask) together at a Whale’s private party and decided to hook up for the near, if not immediate, domestic future. He shipped her and her Two Brats back east to Chicago. This guy trades<\/em> farm futures so I would imagine he knew what he was getting into. Although not risk aversive, he has assured me on more than one occasion that he is not yet a Whale. He’s more than a Chump certainly, but definitely not a Whale.<\/p>\n

A Chump is a million dollar a year guy. You are either a Chump, a Whale, or Bank in his world (The Life). Bank trumps Whale. Then Chump. Everyone else is Home Depot. Wonderful.<\/p>\n

“No offense,” he tells me, “but the average Joe Home Depot in this country is living paycheck to paycheck. They couldn’t care less when the market goes apeshit. (Apeshit means apeshit. Think about it.) They squawk like they do care but they got no real skin in the game. Bullshit 401K pennies maybe. They got no trump<\/em>. Joe Home Depot can always find another Home Depot with matching funds to bag nails and pay the bills. A Chump, however, is ruined<\/em> in an apeshit scenario. The Life is over for him. I know Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know a guy who makes stupid money. He doesn’t even call it money. He calls it trump. “I make sick trump,” he once told me. (Stupid money.) “I have a Hot Mess at home,” he continued. “And she’s sick, too.” (An attractive girlfriend with a drinking problem.) “It’s ill.” (Troubling.) 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