Leverage is like a termite infestation: it swarms anywhere there’s food, but you hardly even notice it’s there until things get out of hand and your house starts to fall down.
I think we should combine these metaphors: investment banks are indeed ravenous, indestructible, indefatigable, social pests – giant vampire termites. Termite head through a scanning electron microscope Credit: University of Toronto via Vitrino Ramos
While destroying your flimsy house, they live themselves in air-conditioned luxury in skyscrapers built to last:
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James Wimberley (b. 1946, an Englishman raised in the Channel Islands. three adult children) is a former career international bureaucrat with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. His main achievements there were the Lisbon Convention on recognition of qualifications and the Kosovo law on school education. He retired in 2006 to a little white house in Andalucia, His first wife Patricia Morris died in 2009 after a long illness. He remarried in 2011. to the former Brazilian TV actress Lu Mendonça. The cat overlords are now three.
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7 thoughts on “Attack of the killer metaphors”
For real zest and visual distinction, you’ll need giant ZOMBIE vampire termites.
The only reason it’s called “the vampire squid” is that so few people have heard of Cthulhu.
I’ve preferred “social tapeworm” – but I like yours as well.
The difference being that, when the termite infestation in your house gets to a certain scale, their home comes crashing down when yours does.
On the other hand… Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. Cthulhu fhtagn.
I always suspected the captain on the ill-fated first “Alien” ship was entering those dark tunnels to meet up with his Goldman Sachs financier! I wonder if any of you may have thought of the same thing regarding that well-fortified-financial-planner the dear old capt. met up with in the dark! (Probably took a 7 digit bonus after meting out his advice for The Company!)
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For real zest and visual distinction, you’ll need giant ZOMBIE vampire termites.
The only reason it’s called “the vampire squid” is that so few people have heard of Cthulhu.
I’ve preferred “social tapeworm” – but I like yours as well.
The difference being that, when the termite infestation in your house gets to a certain scale, their home comes crashing down when yours does.
On the other hand… Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. Cthulhu fhtagn.
I always suspected the captain on the ill-fated first “Alien” ship was entering those dark tunnels to meet up with his Goldman Sachs financier! I wonder if any of you may have thought of the same thing regarding that well-fortified-financial-planner the dear old capt. met up with in the dark! (Probably took a 7 digit bonus after meting out his advice for The Company!)
Thanks for the great graphics and wit.