Recent content by Elison

http://www.haring.com/cgi-bin/art_lrg.cgi?date=1984&genre=Painting&id=00596

No no. The Chagall painting came out in apparently 1975. This painting? 1987? 1999? 2005?

The Fall of Icarus. 1975. Oil on canvas. 213 x 198 cm. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

whatta ya gonna do with the liability issue? little kids get electrocuted and stuff like that. I'm not trying to rain on the parade. I'm just trying to get a better understanding of your process.

in the realm of stupendous, I have heard of cars made of nerf material as a solution to car accidents. one of the potential problems with laptop condoms and nerf cars is heat. also, a clear plastic bag with a clamp would be formidable competition for the laptop condom and diminish profit...

"Greatest gain in a stock ever" goes to XOM. It has the largest market cap in the world apparently. *Forbes lists PTR as larger but is erroneous. XOM's market cap looks to be less than a few percent of its IPO market cap. The difference in current market cap from IPO market cap is far...

I think the moderator needs to define the parameters better. Add a time dimension maybe. My main contention is that there have to be plenty of companies out there that have been traded in one form or another for at least a couple of hundred years. One of these stocks would probably register...

What about Van Gogh's paintings that he gave away for free during his lifetime and had a tough time finding takers even then? The greatest returns percentage wise are trades were someone got something for free or, even better, was paid to take the item and then it appreciated fantastically...

I don't know about stock. I don't think it can be calculated as many shares have been roled into other stock over centuries. As a hypothetical example, AXA shares might trace back to origins in South Sea. I don't see how it can fairly be calculated unless one were to say that the gain has...