Now Is Not The Time For Pranks!

Submitted by AttentionWhore on September 16, 2008 - 2:05pm.

Hell yeah! My HS AP Economics teacher actually had us watch that movie about 4 times in lieu of teaching us anything. I fucking love Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Ackroyd.

*whispers* especially in My Girl

Yeah..does anyone remember when Louis Winthorpe III, Billy Ray Valentine, and that hooker Ophelia masterminded this same Wall Street meltdown in Trading Places...hmmmm?

Hey, where are Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy anyways??

"MORTIMER, Where's Beeks? Where in the hell is Beeks?!!!!"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgeDh1WCyeM

I'm still patiently awaiting the day when Suzanne Malveaux and Anderson Cooper simultaneously console me.

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The line between sex and society is so fine and blurred... even Amy Winehouse wouldn't snort it.

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Yes, it is times like this when I think that wealth redistribution is maybe not such a bad idea... particularly when so many of the wealthy (e.g. Dubya) have done NOTHING to earn it, but were simply born into it.

Must be nice to be the CEO and have a golden parachute. My goodness, who could possibly survive on 5 million plus dollars?!

I don't understand economics in the slightest, which makes such events all the more frightening.

I'm inclined to say that the axis of economics is one of the great human tragedies. It is run for the benefit of only a select few, and ropes the rest of us in for the ride.

What we see as opportunity and freedom only serves as bondage. Humans would be infinitely happier if we were to regress back to a much simpler time.

For all of the medical sicknesses that the modern world has saved us from, it has brought on even more social ills.

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Are we sure Xtina has not passed on and her final request was to be embalmed standing up holding a bottle of her nasty perfume?- DivasGone

Howard Stern is an ass hole but he is a funny ass hole

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

And perhaps the real question should be who is gaining in money and power from all this? I prefer my Molotov Cocktails served straight up, with a hint of Vermouth.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken

Gallows humor, as the hangman grasps the handle. The light at the end of the tunnel some fools claim to see is nothing more than an on coming train. Perhaps the Mayans were right.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken

And yet we are still in Iraq, spending away our present and future, for what?? All Hell is breaking loose.

George Bush, the greedy rich, i.e., our politicians, fucked us every which way, ten times over. And we kinda let them.

I think HP is about to let go of 25,000 emps.

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I'm NOT an economist, I'm an optimist. GW Bush

Ugh that is depressing. They had pictures of both the NYC and the London Lehman Borther's offices and in both you could see all these people with their little boxes and bankers huging each other and crying. It's those people that are going to suffer, the ones that were just doing what was handed down to them. The fat cats who got the bonuses knew this was coming and hightailed it to their summer homes. The underlings that went in today without a clue are the ones that are going to have to fight each other for their next job, hoping to god they can make their expensive ass NYC/London rent payments.

Submitted by aquarius on September 15, 2008 - 11:02pm.

Great idea! Wipe out everyone's loans and start all over. I think you've got something there.
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I love Howard, the Richard and Sal stuff is usually too much for me but that was pretty damn funny. For everyone else that doesn't get appreciate it they get a 0.0

Happy to see HS continue self amusement, while his investments hit the toilet.

He's going to be affected more, than the rest of us. With his portfolio?
That's going to be hilarious.

Hmm... (trying to look on the bright side) maybe if the banks all fail, I won't have to pay my student loans back! And hopefully I won't be hit by any falling stockbrokers on my way to work unless they look like Christian Bale.

Submitted by zomay on September 15, 2008 - 5:59pm.

thanks for info. I just shared it w/ my sis and bro n' law.

side note: its predicted that 117 more substantial banks are next to fail.

Let's foreclose on the WH and put Bush out on the street.

PS. I luv that clip, Stern shakes shit up.

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I'm NOT an economist, I'm an optimist. GW Bush

Submitted by letinstar on September 15, 2008 - 7:24pm.
what's wrong with me? i laughed out loud when those dudes were making out...it looked like two manatees fighting over sea algae...

Hahaha. That was pretty funny...I mean your comment!

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Omg that was so fucking funny...I am at Borders trying not to laugh hard...lol lol.

That made me giggle - and no, I'm not a 14 yr old boy. ~teehee

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Submitted by Sandbitch on September 15, 2008 - 5:35pm.

Oh I see. Well! Sucks to be her then! getting all worked up and all , hee.

I find a lot of fancy words on the intrawebz about this and I just wanted someone to tell me in simple words what was going on. I guess I have an idea now, but thanks for you hospitality (hostility ain't pretty, damn!)

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Expect to see more stock brokers (NOT our beloved Stock Broker here on D though) doing cordless bungie jumps onto Wall Street like they did during the start of the Great Depression in the 20s!
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken

Submitted by Sandbitch on September 15, 2008 - 7:35pm.

Submitted by Boob3rries on September 16, 2008 - 9:30am.

OOo I ask for a simple explanation and I got rudeness

goody!

I will LCT. I will do it. But we can't forget about Tim and Horton!

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LOL. That's what happens when you interrupt Zomay when she's having a *PRIVATE* conversation with someone. On a public blog.
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I don't know what's going on, but that was funny.

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Say there was a fart pay it forward... if someone paid forward an egg fart to you, would you only be able to pay forward egg farts or could you pay forward cheese farts and chinese food farts?

Submitted by Boob3rries on September 16, 2008 - 9:30am.

OOo I ask for a simple explanation and I got rudeness

goody!

I will LCT. I will do it. But we can't forget about Tim and Horton!

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LOL. That's what happens when you interrupt Zomay when she's having a *PRIVATE* conversation with someone. On a public blog.

OOo I ask for a simple explanation and I got rudeness

goody!

I will LCT. I will do it. But we can't forget about Tim and Horton!

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"Writing that made my eyeballs fart." MK

Submitted by LOVE CARROTTOP on September 15, 2008 - 4:29pm.
I need consolation over gas prices. Who wants to console my chi chis and motorboat me on live TV?

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I do, I do!!!!!!!
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I need consolation over gas prices. Who wants to console my chi chis and motorboat me on live TV?

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Say there was a fart pay it forward... if someone paid forward an egg fart to you, would you only be able to pay forward egg farts or could you pay forward cheese farts and chinese food farts?

yay! i love economic catastrophes!!!

And a great time for McCain to buy a few more houses! So many good bargains out there now!
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken

That video was hilarious and terrifying at the same time! And good post, Zomay! And by the way, the average citizen in China has on average more money in the bank than a US citizen has. About two years ago, a Chinese person had about +$363 USD compared to the average US citizen having -$2490. A true fact, that I doubt has changed much. Anyone wanna buy a house now?
I actually know the son of the head honcho @ Merril (He IS a good guy though!). I'm sure his father will weep himself to sleep on his pile of Billions!
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken

The US Dollar won't be worth much in a few years the way things are going. Lehman Brothers won't be the last titanic failure on Wall Street.

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speakit, your welcome. Have a good night everyone.

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what's wrong with me? i laughed out loud when those dudes were making out...it looked like two manatees fighting over sea algae...
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that's some serious meat you're packin'...
hey let's let chief eat his MEAT!!!!
GO MEAT!!!!

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Zomay - Thanks for the article.

That was soooo f*cking hot! - Pat O'Brien

Boob3rries on September 15, 2008 - 3:15pm.
"But Dlisters we need to be aware of how OUR country is being abused."

It's not MY country. That's why I'm asking.

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I was never talking to you. When I posted that I was unaware that you posted.

"But Dlisters we need to be aware of how OUR country is being abused."

It's not MY country. That's why I'm asking.

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Submitted by StickaCockinWoo... on September 15, 2008 - 5:00pm.
The part I don't understand is how do they allow ceos' have a leaving bonus of 70 million dollars and stock options and wonder why the company is bankrupt?
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I don't understand either! The economy is taking a beating. I am trying to save as much as I can.

"Shaking in their boots, invisible bully like the gooch" Biggie Smalls

That was hilarious! But if my bank goes under it won't hurt me...I have only like 5 dollars in my checking account right now anyways,lol. TIMES IS HARD!

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Here is some info I found on another site. It is a little long. But Dlisters we need to be aware of how OUR country is being abused. It is STILL OUR COUNTRY.

Have a great day people.

"Military Keynesianism"
Such expenditures are not only morally obscene, they are fiscally unsustainable. Many neo-conservatives and poorly informed patriotic Americans believe that, even though our defense budget is huge, we can afford it because we are the richest country on Earth. That statement is no longer true. The world’s richest political entity, according to the CIA’s World Factbook, is the European Union. The EU’s 2006 GDP was estimated to be slightly larger than that of the US. Moreover, China’s 2006 GDP was only slightly smaller than that of the US, and Japan was the world’s fourth richest nation.

A more telling comparison that reveals just how much worse we’re doing can be found among the current accounts of various nations. The current account measures the net trade surplus or deficit of a country plus cross-border payments of interest, royalties, dividends, capital gains, foreign aid, and other income. In order for Japan to manufacture anything, it must import all required raw materials. Even after this incredible expense is met, it still has an $88bn per year trade surplus with the US and enjoys the world’s second highest current account balance (China is number one). The US is number 163 — last on the list, worse than countries such as Australia and the UK that also have large trade deficits. Its 2006 current account deficit was $811.5bn; second worst was Spain at $106.4bn. This is unsustainable.

It’s not just that our tastes for foreign goods, including imported oil, vastly exceed our ability to pay for them. We are financing them through massive borrowing. On 7 November 2007, the US Treasury announced that the national debt had breached _$9 trillion for the first time. This was just five weeks after Congress raised the “debt ceiling” to $9.815 trillion. If you begin in 1789, at the moment the constitution became the supreme law of the land, the debt accumulated by the federal government did not top $1 trillion until 1981. When George Bush became president in January 2001, it stood at approximately $5.7 trillion. Since then, it has increased by 45%. This huge debt can be largely explained by our defence expenditures.

The top spenders
The world’s top 10 military spenders and the approximate amounts each currently budgets for its military establishment are:

Rank Country Military budget 1. United States (FY 2008 budget) $623bn! 2. China (2004) $65bn 3. Russia $50bn 4. France (2005) $45bn 5. United Kingdom $42.8bn 6. Japan (2007) $41.75bn 7. Germany (2003) $35.1bn 8. Italy (2003) $28.2bn 9. South Korea (2003) $21.1bn 10. India (2005 est.) $19bn World total military expenditures (2004 est) $1,100bn World total (minus the US) $500bn

Our excessive military expenditures did not occur over just a few short years or simply because of the Bush administration’s policies. They have been going on for a very long time in accordance with a superficially plausible ideology, and have now become so entrenched in our democratic political system that they are starting to wreak havoc. This is military Keynesianism — the determination to maintain a permanent war economy and to treat military output as an ordinary economic product, even though it makes no contribution to either production or consumption.

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Would someone have mercy on my ignorant ass (I refuse to watch news, they make me paranoid) and tell me what is going on that is so bad or so sad or so anything?

PS: HS is a talentless douchebag, yet that was funny.

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Stock Broker!
Dlisted Drama Cafe!

You can have my savings, 401k, and house sale proceeds.

Let's go.

There's about 5 of us bitches gonna put Dlisted Cafe on the map!

Kate will come in one day, fall head over heals and you two will run off together!

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that was funny!!!!!!!!!and stupid, but it was funny..

and i dont own stock, nor plan to so fk the stock market...

just save up your bucks the old fashioned way..

I <3 Stock Broker

I'm using the ghetto <3 because I can't do the proper one, I hope you don't mind Stock Broker. :)

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Stock Broker

I think I lurves you for saying Howard sucks!

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who is this HWAT whore?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex-FEtFrZNg

Hillarious mockery of the news. Luv Stern Show, epecially Robin and Artie.

This is beyond a market adjustment, but this is paving the way for some new rich, as well as, the rich to get richer.

Just keep following Bush 2.0 and say over and over again, "we have a strong vibrant economy, we have a strong vibrant economy, we have a strong vibrant economy...."

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Blogs aren't for the sensitive at heart - FU
I'm NOT an economist, I'm an optimist. GW Bush

Howard Stern suxs.

I'm seriously contemplating leaving the world of high finance.

But I need to raise a few more $$ to open the DListed Cafe in Amsterdam.

Scary times, scary times indeed.

Ok, I found that funny, but I'm completely juvenille.

The shirt lifting was key.

I am glad that I do not own stock. Just a broke ass whore.

BTW-MARKETS OCCASIONALLY CRASH.In a true free enterprise system-this means the dumb & the blind sided get plowed under & a new cast of characters gets wealthy.Good news if you ask me.

Howard Stern...high priest of all that is douchey.
He's got one year left on that megabux contract.I'm sure he thinks that he'll just fall back into regular radio & pick up where he left off.If there is justice in this universe-I DO NOT wish to hear him as a relevant culture critic ever again.