Day 1,531: bob, peddle

“Where are the customers’ yachts?” asks a wide-eyed visitor to Manhattan, after his host points out the bankers’ and brokers’ boats, bobbing by the pier. The scene, from a book published in 1940, reflects a healthy scepticism of the advice peddled by financiers.

Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing

Artwork of the day 
Ichikawa Sansho as a Sweetmeat Peddler
Natori Shunsen
Date: 1926
Style: Shin-hanga
Genre: yakusha-e

Word of the day 
bobbing: to move up and down quickly and gently, especially on the surface of water
peddle: to sell things, especially by taking them to different places

Quote of the day
“There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.”

― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies