Jon Stewart and Bill Maher on the economy
It’s so bad you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, why not do both with Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. For the record I don’t think Jon Stewart really understands where Rick Santelli is coming from.
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The first recorded Credit Crunch in 88 BC
Humans have been experiencing the same kinds of issues for thousands of years, but it is still interesting to see just how similar events in the past are to those of the present.
Here’s an article about the first recorded credit crunch during the last years of the Roman Republic and the dawning of the Roman [...]
Bird and Fortune on the Sub-prime Crisis
A great satirical interview from earlier in the year. Funny, because it’s true.
Red vs. Blue Financial Crisis PSA: Rock Bottom
Red Vs Blue is a ‘machinima’ animation series which means that computer game graphics are used for the animation. Here’s Red Vs Blue’s take on the current situation.
UK’s massive mortgage fraud. Yet ‘It could have been so different’
Somewhere in an alternate universe Gordon Brown prevented ‘boom and bust’. Below is an imaginary dialogue between Gordon Brown and the FSA.
The documentary referenced in this dialogue can be found on Google Video. This documentary was first broadcast in 2003.
Money Programme: Massive Mortgage Fraud
It highlights the fact that the UK has it’s own ’sub-prime mortgage’ [...]
lolfed.com
From the makers of lolcats.com comes lolfed.com
LOLFed.com Launches, Combines LOLCats and Central Banking
The new website LOLFed.com was launched to help anyone with a sense of humor make sense of the actions of the Federal Reserve, financial markets, and Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke and former chair Alan Greenspan.
Check it out at lolfed.com
Pretty genius idea.
Quotes from the 1929 stock market crash
Time for some black humour. Here’s a selection of quotes from the period 1927 to 1933 regarding the stock market and economy.
1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators