My Day In Pictures – October 26th, 2010
I’m posting earlier than normal today because I have a lot of work to finish. If I take any more pictures, I’ll update this post. Otherwise …

Another addition to the Scrooge McDuck collection arrived today. This one has a switch that causes the gold flakes to swim around the inside of the water globe as the richest duck in the world takes a bath in his money.

I read the Imperial Tobacco annual report. The British tobacco giant has a great record. Over the past ten years, Imperial Tobacco has turned a £100 investment into £547 with dividends reinvested. The FTSE All-Share Index turned £100 into £287 in that same time period, giving the company double the rate of return compared to the broad stock market in Great Britain. From the report, I learned there are 6,000,000,000,000 cigarettes sold each year – that is 6 trillion – of which 1/3 are in China.

I’ve been busy so I have only read 339 pages into Barbarians at the Gate in the past two days. There are 160 pages left and I would like to finish them tonight or tomorrow, schedule permitting.