Talk:Skin in the game (phrase)

(I shoulda saved this for later w/o trying to get it perfect. ...
... bcz I can't get it perfect, and right at the moment I can barely be coherent. Here's what I can salvage at this moment:) --Jerzy•t 06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)  The article has  : According to the economist Joseph Stiglitz, there tends to be a negative correlation between excess "skin" and negative returns. without even a clear claim that that's a direct quote from the public figure (and I doubt its unsuitability rests primarily on whether he's an academic, a shark, or both). --Jerzy•t 06:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC) )


 * )... (.... Ah, the perils of aging...)

... it's nevertheless important to quote directly than to crack crack the ( figurative lobser or clam) shell of his technically-precise double negative. Perhaps on a better day I'll try --- tho others' efforts may be more suited, more timely, or both.--Jerzy•t 06:49, 20 December 2018 (UTC) -->

Possible OR
I've removed the following paragraph, which appears to be original research. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 07:48, 7 September 2019 (UTC) "Another possible explanation is that the phrase draws its origins from William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which the antagonist Shylock stipulates that the protagonist Antonio must promise a pound of his own flesh as collateral, to be exacted by Shylock in the event that Antonio's friend Bassanio defaults on the loan to which Antonio is guarantor."