Kass: Neither a Bull nor a Bear Be

This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on May 29 at 7:37 a.m. EDT.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

-- Polonius, from William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In Hamlet, Polonius advises his hotheaded son Laertes, who is about to embark for Paris for his gentleman's education. Throughout the play, Polonius wholesales a stockroom of aphorisms, the most famous of which is "neither a borrower nor a lender be." ...