The Beatles as Traders? from George Parkanyi
A while back I pondered how some of the Beatles songs might have worked out differently had the lads been bitten by the trading bug. Would they have written:
All You Need is Cash
Don't Mark Me Down
When I Saw Her Shorting There
Day Trader
Hey Crude
Bet it, Lee
Dear Prudent (Man)
Penny Stock
Sgt Peppers Lonely Shorts Club Band
She's Leaving Home (Depot)
You've Got to Hide Your Dogs Away
I Am the Wall Street
Norwegian Wood (a good day on the Scandinavian bond desk)
Hello, Good Buy!
Maxwell's Silver Outlook
Backing the USSR
With a Little Help From My Friends (more recently the Galleon company song)
The Long Unwinding Debt
Get Black (popular with compliance departments)
Here Comes the Stun
RICO Raccoon
Can't Buy Me Bonds
Help! (works either way)
Broker You're a Rich Man
I've a Got a Feeling / Hurl (medley)
If It Fell
Sum Together (also known as The Settlement Song)
Act Naturally (also known as The Audit Song)
Things We Shed Today
Everybody's Got Something to Trade Except for Me and My Monkey
Helter (Tax) Shelter
When It's at Sixty-Four
We Can Work It Out (margin call set to music)
You Never Give Me Your Money (second, more urgent margin call set to music)
and finally …
Fool on the Till