And, all right, I'm kind of milking the metaphor a little bit.

He could be found at 6 o'clock every morning in the barn, milking the cows.

My day started at 5 in the morning, milking the cows, sweeping the house, cooking for my siblings, collecting water, firewood.

The chorus continues Pump it out, pump it out, I'm feeding them babies, pump it out, pump it out, I'm milking my ladies.

So long as the markets were rising, the paradox of vigorous capitalist development overseen by the world s largest and strongest Communist party confounded only academics and old school Marxists. As the Chinese Communist Party elite and their relatives, foreign financial institutions, and some Chinese small investors (enabled by margin lending) made money on stocks, no one bothered to comprehend the mutant creature they were milking.