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firqby firqby
 
M$1 December 19, 2008 09:23 PM

How does book value, cattle and blizzards relate?

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splatham splatham
 
 December 19, 2008 09:50 PM
Im going to go with the book value of a cattle farm (assuming it is a corporate farm) will decline if a blizzard strikes and kills the cattle.
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firqby firqby
 
December 20, 2008 06:27 AM
This is mostly the correct answer. In 1884 one of the worst blizzards in history killed a majority of the cattle. Prior to this incident the cattle barons never recognized loss of a cattle so the net book value of their cattle was grossly over inflated. So the blizzard became the excuse to fix the problem.

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December 19, 2008 09:28 PM
the bigger they are the bigger the cover

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dbedingfie... dbedingfie...
 
December 19, 2008 09:40 PM
The bigger they are, the more you'll pay...?

Not sure we're on the right track... is this a riddle? Or something else?

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necoras necoras
 
December 19, 2008 09:39 PM
My guess would be that blizzards kill cows, which mean there are more bones/hooves to go to the glue factory, which means that glue is cheaper, so book bindings are cheaper to produce, therefore book prices go down.

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tracebooks tracebooks
 
December 19, 2008 10:16 PM
If you hit cattle with your car because you didn't see them in the blizzard, the book value of your car will go down for every cow you hit.

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williamwac... williamwac...
 
December 19, 2008 11:23 PM
Come on. The question as stated it so ambiguous it is meaningless. Are we talking about the book value of an entity? ( This is in the Money queue. ) Or are we talking about the value of a book? If the latter, what kind of book? The Gutenberg Bible or a Kindle download that you can't transfer?

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