๐ Treasury Bill
TL,DR: Like lettuce, lacking substance Treasury Bills / Lettucelacking substanceshort lifespansafe and mildly nutritiousEatamology โT-Billsโ or โBillsโ for short refer to the hard copy form of these bonds, which looks very much like a dollar bill, and which was created by President Hoover at the start of the Great Depression to raise money for the government when tax income dropped dramatically. The Department of the Treasury, a division of the Executive Branch (which is controlled by POTUS),...
๐ถWho are you?
TL,DR: Choose suitable investments based on your goals and risk tolerance. โPete Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). A policeman recognized him ("A policeman knew my name") and being kind, woke him and told him, "You can go sleep at home tonight (instead of a jail cell), if you can get up and walk awa...
โ๏ธ ESG
TL,DR: ESG designations are labels meant to indicate ethical products ESG | Organic, Non-GMO, Ethically SourcedLike organic, non-gmo, and ethically sourced marketing labels, ESG labels are applied when a company allegedly meets regulatory standardsCan be related to the product itself, or associated impacts from the productEatamology โESGโ stands for environmental, social, and governance. Itโs a broad and sometimes subjective label that attracts investors concerned about outcomes and ethics in...
Helping future investors understand finance and crypto using digestible analogies. I hope you brought your appetite. Not a financial advisor
๐ Treasury Bill
TL,DR: Like lettuce, lacking substance Treasury Bills / Lettucelacking substanceshort lifespansafe and mildly nutritiousEatamology โT-Billsโ or โBillsโ for short refer to the hard copy form of these bonds, which looks very much like a dollar bill, and which was created by President Hoover at the start of the Great Depression to raise money for the government when tax income dropped dramatically. The Department of the Treasury, a division of the Executive Branch (which is controlled by POTUS),...
๐ถWho are you?
TL,DR: Choose suitable investments based on your goals and risk tolerance. โPete Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). A policeman recognized him ("A policeman knew my name") and being kind, woke him and told him, "You can go sleep at home tonight (instead of a jail cell), if you can get up and walk awa...
โ๏ธ ESG
TL,DR: ESG designations are labels meant to indicate ethical products ESG | Organic, Non-GMO, Ethically SourcedLike organic, non-gmo, and ethically sourced marketing labels, ESG labels are applied when a company allegedly meets regulatory standardsCan be related to the product itself, or associated impacts from the productEatamology โESGโ stands for environmental, social, and governance. Itโs a broad and sometimes subjective label that attracts investors concerned about outcomes and ethics in...
Helping future investors understand finance and crypto using digestible analogies. I hope you brought your appetite. Not a financial advisor

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TL,DR: Long and short take on new meaning as financial jargon
Long and Short / Buyers and Sellers
Imagine you need to record a transaction - the sale of an lamb - but donโt have a pen or paper or any real technology. You might represent the transaction with a wooden stick, breaking it into two pieces of different lengths. The long piece goes to the buyer of the lamb, who provided money in exchange for the animal. The seller receives the short piece, as a record of their contribution, the lamb. After the lamb is butchered and the money spent, the transaction will still be recorded by the sticks. And putting the sticks together can confirm they belong on opposite sides of the same transaction.
This is how transactions and debts were recorded in Medieval Europe, and may have birthed the financial terms โlongโ for buyer, and โshortโ for seller. Additional tally marks could be added to the sticks, providing a unique and tamper proof system for having a receipt of sale and record of debt payment.
Financials
Holding a long position is a fancy way of saying you own something and want it to be valuable. Short positions are a bit more complicated. If approved to short sell, investors can bet against a product. To do so you borrow shares of the product from the bank with a promise to return them in the future. Next, you immediately sell the products at the current market price. In the future, when itโs time to return the borrowed shares to the bank, you can buy them back from the market - hopefully at a lower price. The difference between your sell price and buy price will be your profit.
Short Squeeze
Short positions are risky because the stock price could go up. Additionally - short investors are exposed to a short squeeze - where the long investors double down on the stock, driving itโs price up even further, forcing the short sellers to buy, which also increases the price of the stock.
TL,DR: Long and short take on new meaning as financial jargon
Long and Short / Buyers and Sellers
Imagine you need to record a transaction - the sale of an lamb - but donโt have a pen or paper or any real technology. You might represent the transaction with a wooden stick, breaking it into two pieces of different lengths. The long piece goes to the buyer of the lamb, who provided money in exchange for the animal. The seller receives the short piece, as a record of their contribution, the lamb. After the lamb is butchered and the money spent, the transaction will still be recorded by the sticks. And putting the sticks together can confirm they belong on opposite sides of the same transaction.
This is how transactions and debts were recorded in Medieval Europe, and may have birthed the financial terms โlongโ for buyer, and โshortโ for seller. Additional tally marks could be added to the sticks, providing a unique and tamper proof system for having a receipt of sale and record of debt payment.
Financials
Holding a long position is a fancy way of saying you own something and want it to be valuable. Short positions are a bit more complicated. If approved to short sell, investors can bet against a product. To do so you borrow shares of the product from the bank with a promise to return them in the future. Next, you immediately sell the products at the current market price. In the future, when itโs time to return the borrowed shares to the bank, you can buy them back from the market - hopefully at a lower price. The difference between your sell price and buy price will be your profit.
Short Squeeze
Short positions are risky because the stock price could go up. Additionally - short investors are exposed to a short squeeze - where the long investors double down on the stock, driving itโs price up even further, forcing the short sellers to buy, which also increases the price of the stock.
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