Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Shakespeare teaches you need a good lawyer, and a good financial advisor

In reading this play, I really became fascinated by the financial issue that is featured throughout the story. What lessons did each character learn?
  • Antonio
    • No matter how secure you feel to pay back debt, sometimes you become unable to.
  • Bassanio
    • If you can get someone to cosign your debt all the obligation is off of you but you will feel the sorrow of your cosigner if the debt goes unpaid.
  • Shylock
    • Contracts are ruthless, vengeance is never as sweet as it seems. When you are a creditor you probably want more collatoral than a weight of carrion flesh.
I am intrigued to here more from the members of our class today. I will follow this post up later this week on what investing and lending lessons we should learn, and give some advice to these three for future transactions.


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  1. Alicia TovarJanuary 25, 2012 at 5:21 PM

    In going along with the financial lessons in Shakespeare...
    Shakespeare also teaches us that it takes money to woo a woman (so don't fall in love with one you cannot afford).
    If you are offered twice the amount of a debt, take it and run before you are denied everything

    :) This was a really cool perspective on the Merchant of Venice. Thanks for sharing. It was fun to think of a few more lessons.

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