Uncle Masse’s recent Christmas riddle achieved unprecedented popularity on the forum. New forum members can check it out as a warm-up in that thread under “FA’s Christmas Riddle”.
Now, in the middle of a hectic earnings season, a little entertainment and a chance to wind down is needed, so let’s move on to the February riddle. We’ll stay in the financial world but move from Greece to another of Europe’s former trouble spots: Iceland. Who served as Iceland’s Minister of Finance back in the years when the country’s economy drifted into a wild bubble crisis and economic speculation was at its peak: 1. Hordur Spekulasson 2. Runar Saivarsson or 3. Olafur Jargosson?
Once again, the correct answer cannot be found by looking up facts on some gadget called KVG (Just Google It), but Iceland’s favorite child, football, might steer you onto the right track.
The correct answer with its reasoning will be posted on these pages in early March. This time, “Uncle” was forbidden from giving a specific date and time, as it turned out last time that many forum members’ Christmas Eve celebrations with their families were ruined because they had to spend the whole evening checking their phones for when Uncle Masse would reveal the solution to the Christmas riddle.
There’s support and likes, but no one has yet dared to publicly guess the correct answer with justifications. Well, once the earnings season ends, you’ll have unlimited time for the Pearl Nut challenge, and then surely a few will dare to even post on the forum about it…
Nutty-Masse, a veteran who appreciates the entertainment side of investing
Alright. You still have a few days to try and solve the pearl puzzle with its reasoning. Be brave and just guess 1, 2, or 3. But you need to provide the reasoning. A hint to the correct answer is given above in the pearl puzzle itself.
Try to hang in there for a few more days. And don’t spoil your family’s winter vacation by getting too nervous about solving the puzzle.
Iceland also had a ice fishing minister…or was it a fishing minister at the time. Probably still does.
It just occurred to me, was it under the leadership of the ice fishing ministry when Icelanders fished up a bunch of Finnair, Elisa, Sampo and what other companies from Finland.
The “ice fishing” wasn’t really bottom fishing, they eventually took tens of percents of losses, especially in Finnair, which plummeted from 12 euros towards five at a rapid pace.
I’m guessing 2. Runar Saivarsson. Iceland’s economy began to recover after the financial crisis faster than Icelandic Rúnar Kristinsson can kick a ball into the goal. Hopefully, Iceland’s economy won’t sink to the same level as Kristinsson’s coaching career after these good years.
Alright, it’s time to reveal the solution to the Pearl Nut. Above, Astrix guessed correctly, item 2. Runar Saivarsson. However, your ruthless uncle cannot give full points, because the clue was not the first name Runar (and thus the Icelandic national team player Runar Kristinsson) but the surname Saivarsson (and thus the Icelandic national team’s reliable defender Birkir Mar Saivarsson)!!
The story goes back to when your uncle once listened to an Iceland game on the radio on his way home, and the commentator was foaming: “Saivarsson takes the penalty coarsely wide and now he rushes with outstretched hands in front of the referee to quibble about something completely incomprehensible…”
This hit your uncle really hard, “no way, someone’s name can’t actually be Saivarsson”. But it was, and from that developed this very difficult Pearl Nut.
Well, now back to making dough for a moment and we’ll return to financial nuts a bit later. Thanks for participating and for the thumbs up.
In mass chats and company comments, there’s always a small grain of truth, which you can find if you have a feel for it. Mass nuts don’t have any major lesson for the congregation: they are purely for entertainment amidst the heavy work of making mass. The nuts are, of course, only for those scoundrels who understand them:wink:
Nonsense. Your ramblings make no sense. For a year now, I’ve been trying positively to find a germ of sense in those floodings - in vain. It seems like a fix-idea pensioner’s rant. Write to the local newspaper.
Sorry to hear that gravy’s (gravy) mindset is so limited. You really don’t have to read or think about Masse’s nuts if it feels distressing. They are pure entertainment. Company comments, on the other hand, are strict, usually quick summaries of what’s happening. In those, Masse has been awkwardly often right or at least on the right track. For a professional, they probably give little, but ordinary “karvalakit” (novices) seem to like them and get a boost and faith in their own actions from them. Perhaps that’s why FA gets quite a lot of likes. Of course, Verpu, Sauli, Mikael, etc. are in their own league when it comes to likes
Uncle won’t enter an analysis competition with professionals, but sometimes uncle’s simple truths in this complex and treacherous world of investing work quite well, e.g., case Titanium, which can be followed far back in the thread.
And we don’t give advice or recommendations; only opinions, views, and stories about our own actions
This forum is the modern version of a local newspaper’s opinion section. On this forum, many are more qualified by education to analyze companies than Inderes’ CEO xD
If your comment was not a critique of forum members’ ability to analyze companies, then what was it?
Interpreting that word for word, like the devil interpreting the Bible, it seems that, according to you, many forum members are more qualified by training to analyze companies than Inderes’ CEO. Is that really what you meant?
So you meant what you wrote, but not really, because it was half a joke? Okay, there’s no point in anyone judging reading comprehension from that, you’d have to be a mind reader to make sense of it..
And there’s nothing to calm down about, just like the cork isn’t open. I was just trying to figure out what that meant, nothing more. No more from me on this, it’s the wrong thread anyway.
