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Please inform Clive Crook ("Dialogue: The Stock Market") that dividends are not the only "payouts" to be considered when valuing a stock.
"The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."
An ell , Anglo-Saxon eln , was a rough reckoning, being the distance from the crook of the arm to the end of the longest finger, the elbow being where the bow or bend occurred.
The farmer you see standing over his crook at the side of the road may not give you a wide smile of welcome, but that short nod of his head and tip of his cap is equivalent to a heartfelt hug or handshake in other places.
But the Glassman-Crook episode set me thinking, for it is not the only recent case in which good things have happened to bad ideas.