Word: vanillas
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Even in the most vanilla of trades, liquidation can impact the market price. With lightly traded securities, this can be magnified. For example, a fund might corner some asset by buying and buying and buying and then reporting a huge unrealized gain. But the moment the fund tries to sell and realize the gain (perhaps to pay off its last few investors), demand disappears, and the asset crashes. Again, investors withdrawing early got better returns over that time period than those who waited until later. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...also getting warrants from the banks that give it the right to purchase additional shares of the company equal to 15% of its investment. With a $10 billion investment, then, Treasury gets $10 billion in preferred shares and the right to buy an addition $1.5 billion in additional plain-vanilla stock - the kind regular investors would buy. The twist is that the government can buy those shares at a set price - an average of what the company's stock was trading at during the 20-day period prior to its initial investment. So if the bank's stock price rises...
...school hand-washers out there: single-use sheets of soap. The Container Store's Paper Soap comes in a colorful plastic case that flips open in the palm of your hand, and contains 50 paper-thin swatches. The soaps come in three scents: apple, which is pretty unassuming; vanilla, which smells like a candle; and, my favorite, jasmine. Be sure to pull out a sheet before you wet your hands - and for the best germ-killing action, wash with warm water for at least 20 seconds and dry well. Price: $4.99 each...
...cupcakes obnoxious luxury items. He also suggested that we tweak the name of the shop to Freddy and Joel's Extreme Cupcakery, since Freddy claims he's better known than I am in Managua, which I pretended to believe. When we started to talk about cupcake flavors, Freddy suggested vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pineapple and banana. From my experiences in cupcake-eating, I told him he might want to start off with red velvet and chai. "Those flavors would be new to Nicaragua," he said, "and therefore there'd be a great demand for them." I could not have imagined finding...
...many as 30 kids watching the pot boil,” Wilson said. When I met with him, he was stirring a pot of murky water with muslin sacks of barley bobbing near the surface. He was making a porter to be dry hopped with cacao and vanilla beans. Not quite Natty...