"The Industry Gold Standard" - acceptable or misrepresentation of designation?

Recent press release: http://www.cfainstitute.org/about/press/release/Pages/08062013_89942.aspx.

They certainly don’t mince their words:

To earn the CFA charter, candidates must sequentially pass three six-hour exams that are widely considered to be the most rigorous in the investment profession.

lol bchad. both informative and hilarious. haha

Seems to me that the CFA has gone off the gold standard lately and is now more into quantitative easing of more candidates not unlike our own Fed.

CFAI should change their line to:the Live-Cattle Standard

bchad steals my joke AND gets kudos for it. uncool. what am i? a bologna sandwich?

Numi countered with “the rhubarb standard.” Seems appropriate since every BSD seems to want a big purple one.

(Sorry, MLA, I didn’t deliberately steal your joke. Great minds think alike, I guess).

This demands a regression analysis. Itera, let’s see the anova for this.

agreed. but seriously, am i a bologna sandwich? i can’t tell…

I’ve been unable to take your posts seriously ever since the new format briefly shortened your username.

LOL. Matt Likes Anal/ysis

it seems i’m forever banished to the house of pain