REALISM As you're loading them onto the truck one kicks your farmhand and he sues you for everything you've got. C
Cows held by Trusts instead of corporations You control two cows but own neither. Each cow is held in its' own discretionary trust with your Company as Trustee of both. You are controlling Director,. The land is owned by another trust with similar arrangements. Cow Trust A and Cow Trust B pay income on the milk to your wife (unemployed) and your 18 year old daughter (uni student). Tax is minimised and the business grows over time. The trust that owns your land ends up buying land for your brother in law to start running his own cows. You are planning a stable retirement for your grandkids. Your houso neighbours think you must be scammers to be so well off.
GET RICHER-ISM You have 2 cows You sell them and buy 20 sheep because they're cheap right now. You sell the 20 sheep and buy 3 cows because cows are now cheap. You sell 3 cows and buy 30 sheep because they're cheap right now. and so on...
Housing Cows You have two cows The government want to tax cow transactions and stimulates the market With much fan fare it offers first cow buyers a cash incentive to buy cows There is a high demand for cows. You sell your cows and bank the money Using your money as capital the bank makes cow loans The price of cows increases and interest in cows develops You want to buy some more cows, but prices have doubled The bank loans you the money to buy the cows, using your savings as capital and charges you interest on the loan. The Government taxes you for buying the cows. The return on investment from cows milk is low because of government taxes, interest payments, the increased cost of feed and price suppression of milk You sell your cows to an inexperienced buyer and realise a handsome capital gain You borrow more money and buy even more cows, not to milk but to resell into a rising market. The bank thinks cows are in a bubble so collateralises its cow loans and sells them to investors that want exposure to the cow market The demand for cow CDOs entices the banks to reduce lending standards opening the cow market to new investors The government declares cow sales are required in a healthy economy and announces its first budget surplus. Suddenly, the cow owners start defaulting on their cow payments as the local buyers reach debt saturation and the prices begin to fall The defaulting cow loans mean cow CDO returns are reducing and investors don't know how to value the CDOs in their portfolio and start to sell them The market for cow CDOs dries up The banks don't want the risk of non-performing cow loans so tighten lending standards With cow credit evaporating the market for cows threatens to collapse and the government announces its support of cow prices and trebles the first cow buyers grant with much publicity to encourage cow investment To calm the capital markets, the government announces it will buy cow CDOs The central bank begins to reduce interest rates Secretively, the government expands the market for cows by allowing foreign corporations and speculators to buy cows in your country You sell your cows to a Chinese buyer who used to be a captain in the PLA With the resurgent market, demand for CDOs return, banks lower lending standards, desperate investors trying to keep pace with inflation start to return to cows Meanwhile, a crisis is brewing in China ....
Realism #3 you have 2 cows one gets foot & mouth the other gets mad cow disease & both have to be put down .
Opportunism You have 2 cows you swap them for 4 old horses you butcher them & sell them as beef to aldi or ikea as burger mince 1000% profit ....yeehaa
Altruistic idiocy driven liberalism You have two cows while others don't You think that it's not fair so you give both cows away
You have two cows while others don't You think that it's not fair so you cut them up into 7 billion pieces and everybody gets a fair, unproductive, minuscule piece of cow.
