Friday, August 17, 2007

Truth In Advertising


Ads for financial products often catch my eye as I have been known to write a fair bit of financial ad copy myself.

When I saw this ad, I thought "Gee, what a relief, the risk of those oil stocks with actual underlying value has really been getting me down. I wish some unregulated bookmaker would offer me a completely opaque and proprietary bet on oil." And now one has!!