You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce
the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your
publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your
brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with
an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with
a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are
transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned
by
the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows
back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight
cows, with
an option on one more. The public buys your bull.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the
size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You
then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them
World-Wide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100
years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break
for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them
again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open
another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge
others for storing them.
A HINDU CORPORATION
You have two cows. You worship them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim
full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who
reported the numbers.
AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION
You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute..
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