Rick ([info]shadowspar) wrote,
@ 2008-09-24 08:51:00
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Current music:Vengaboys - Boom, boom, boom, boom
Entry tags:free markets, stupidity

Current financial events -- my (admittedly naïve) understanding

I own a company. I drive back and forth to work at 300 km/h (185 mph) every day because I like how much time it saves me and how much more work I get done at the office.

One day I wrap my car around a lamppost. The police give me a stern lecture on how wrong it was to be driving the way I was, then buy me a new car, since if I can't drive to work a whole bunch of people will be out of a job.


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[info]brendand
2008-09-25 02:10 am UTC (link)
I think I missed a recent news story...

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[info]shadowspar
2008-09-25 02:59 am UTC (link)

Mmm, your Congress considering a $700bn bailout plan for financial institutions that tanked because of taking on boatloads of insanely risky mortgages?

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[info]brendand
2008-09-26 01:00 am UTC (link)
I was missing the symbolism, looking at it more literally... ;)

And you're Candian, eh? And married, right? So, you know any hot guys I can marry if I need to leave the US?

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[info]shadowspar
2008-09-26 11:38 am UTC (link)

I'm hoping it won't come to that this time around. In fact, we're in the midst of an election campaign at the moment, too -- if the Conservatives up here get a majority government and Obama wins there, you may see Canadians fleeing to the States instead of the other way 'round.

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