Topic: It's the economy, stupid! (Read 73081 times)

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #260 on:** January 02, 2009, 08:29:18 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on January 02, 2009, 05:17:09 PM

over NINE THOOOOOOUUSSAAAAAAAND

Must be the Dow?

Arc · « **Reply #261 on:** January 08, 2009, 07:33:30 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGJq8wrw5I

Swinebacks.

Brentai · « **Reply #262 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:18:32 AM »

Catloaf · « **Reply #263 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:50:16 AM »

... Does this mean Xmas has a chance of stopping it's slow but ever-present feast upon the rest of the calendar year?

Brentai · « **Reply #264 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:52:35 AM »

Only by 2.8%.

SCD · « **Reply #265 on:** January 26, 2009, 04:38:26 PM »

The Economist Presents: Credit Crunch, the Board Game

3-6 players.

Büge · « **Reply #266 on:** January 26, 2009, 06:52:14 PM »

Oh. It's for real. I thought you were making an overly elaborate and clever metaphor, SCD.

Kazz · « **Reply #267 on:** January 27, 2009, 03:07:20 PM »

Right after getting their bailout cash, Citigroup decides to try to blow a sizeable wad on a luxurious private jet. Obama's aide comes down and says "No. Just, no."

Brentai · « **Reply #268 on:** January 29, 2009, 05:18:55 PM »

Banks pay out sixth largest executive bonus ever; Obama and Dodd fucking explode.

Catloaf · « **Reply #269 on:** January 29, 2009, 06:57:10 PM »

And Rightly Goddamn So!!!

SCD · « **Reply #270 on:** January 29, 2009, 07:07:54 PM »

So far, so good. The administration seems to be on the ball, one step ahead of the competition.

I suspect that there are people in office who spend too much time on google news, or elsewhere - for once not being a bad thing.

Mongrel · « **Reply #271 on:** January 31, 2009, 04:48:48 PM »

This level of trolling takes some serious stones.

The article's a joke - this is the author of "Liar's Poker". Note that not a single thing on the page flags that as parody other than the sheer absurdity of the article itself.

Brentai · « **Reply #272 on:** January 31, 2009, 06:46:37 PM »

The absurdity doesn't work too well either, since I know way too many people who actually think like that.

Mongrel · « **Reply #273 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:08:58 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on January 31, 2009, 06:46:37 PM

The absurdity doesn't work too well either, since I know way too many people who actually think like that.

That's why it took some kinda balls to do that. I heard he caught a lot of fire for that joke. Not because people think it's a joke in poor taste, but because it's too close to reality and they think he really means it.

sei · « **Reply #274 on:** February 01, 2009, 12:26:24 AM »

Quote from: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anzJooSeABDM&refer=home

The Treasury Department program has injected about $200 billion into banks across the country from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Appropriate acronym.

Mongrel · « **Reply #275 on:** February 01, 2009, 06:55:45 AM »

Oh yeah. LOLFed's been giggling about that one for months now.

Brentai · « **Reply #276 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:12:28 PM »

Final tally: 598,000 jobs lost in January.

To put that into perspective, if you put all the people unemployed just last month into one area, you'd have a city roughly the size of Boston.

Thad · « **Reply #277 on:** February 06, 2009, 04:51:17 PM »

Yeah, it's pretty hard for me to hate my job.

Brentai · « **Reply #278 on:** February 06, 2009, 06:37:47 PM »

I foresaw this occurrence and manipulated events such that I could still maintain an income whilst complaining about not having a job and about the content of my work duties.

Mwahahahahaha.

Romosome · « **Reply #279 on:** February 07, 2009, 02:41:51 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on February 06, 2009, 12:12:28 PM

Final tally: 598,000 jobs lost in January.

To put that into perspective, if you put all the people unemployed just last month into one area, you'd have Detroit.

News:

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