I know i put it somewhere…

Lets just assume for a minute that you’re just an average Joe. You go to work every day from 9 to 5. You respond to emails, do some paperwork, and watch the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock trades. Well, some day, you may be presented with a question - one that seems fairly basic, but one you should still take seriously. The question: Do you want to lose seven-billion dollars? We at chicken and rice do hereby strongly and emphatically declare that if presented with this question, you should say ‘no’ without thought.

“But chicken and rice,” some may argue, “shouldn’t we be trying new things in life?”

Well, good viewers, losing seven-billion dollars is kind of like trying herpes. It really does stay with you longer than you would like.

“But chicken and rice, all of the other cool investment banks are losing billions of dollars.”

Well, if your friends want you to lose billions of dollars, they’re not really your friends. Besides, you’re smarter than the French, right?

“Well…I guess, but it’s only seven-billion dollars.”

Yeah, but seven-billion here, and seven-billion there, and pretty soon they’ll start rejecting your corporate expense card at the Four Seasons. And you don’t want that, do you?

“Well…no.”

That’s a good lad. Now go play in the yard. And remember, the more seven-billion dollars you lose, the more seven-billion dollars the communists win.

Every adventure is a learning experience, from defeating communists in China to going to the store to pick up milk. Today, Rice learns that good and bad in Depression, Iowa might not be as clear as black and white.