I've seen this occur a few times recently, which is probably just
a function of the abysmal returns that people get on anything other than hard money loans, where they're loaning against a hard asset.
But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act
of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form
of an
abysmal, not - quite -
functioning cartoon
of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.