Who feels mildly vindicated for choosing the government scholarship to China over random graduate degree in psuedo-nonsense-mathfinance-of-some-type? This guy. Now I’m free to become an artist without attendant guilt.

Perhaps I could combine finance and art – design complex derivatives with value linked to painting auctions, as a hedge for clients’ counter-counter cyclical asset portfolios? Or maybe be like these guys, designers of Shenzhen’s new stock exchange:

As a metaphor::

For millennia, the solid building stands on a solid base . . . Typically, the base anchors a structure and connects it emphatically to the ground.The essence of the stock market is speculation: it is based on capital, not gravity . . . [This suggests] an architectural invention: our project is a building with a floating base. As if it is lifted by the same speculative euphoria that drives the market, the former base has crept up the tower to become a floating platform.

Via io9.