Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

One nation
Under God
Indivisible
With liberty and justice for all

> Start by rolling back interest rates, which will inflate prices in the housing sector. Americans will be able to borrow against their rising home equity at advantageous rates, and the perception of growing wealth will encourage them to spend, spend, spend. That should give the ol' economy a nice kick in the pants!

I really hope you're joking

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:32 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I lolled.

you know what is amazing? the new york subway system is FUCKED. they may close the W line. they're going to halve the G line. they're going to reduce the number of trains between 2am and 5am. they're closing hundreds of booths and laying off hundreds of attendants. this is after more than a decade of unprecedented growth in the financial capital of the world. and THE STATIONS STILL LOOK AND SMELL LIKE SEWERS.

oh no we'll definitely send millions of our boys to get murdered to keep that indivisible bit, even if the chunk that's trying to leave is the poorly-run-enterprise chunk

it just seems like the old "fix the roof when the sun is shining" thing never really caught on in the old usa

I'm sympathetic to the idea Tombot expresses - though I'd put it more in terms of not screwing future generations of taxpayers who are going to have to pay off the deficits that we are running up today. I think the idea that you don't worry about deficits when you're in a recession is nice and all, but I think we've used up our credibility in that area by continuing to run up deficits in good times and bad over the past 8 years. I wish I could be more confident that we'll get serious about the deficit (including the looming entitlement deficit) once the economy turns around.

tracer come on man sewers don't have little laser-printed signs taped up everywhere telling you that THIS LETTER OF THE ALPHABET WILL ACT LIKE THIS OTHER LETTER OF THE ALPHABET FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS EXCEPT AT NIGHT

that is a good point.

THX 4 YR CONCERN LONDON AND DC DUDES

btw tombot u know why the trains are always getting rerouted - it is because they run 24/7 and need to be worked on some time - also you dont have to swipe on the way out

I really hope you're joking

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/If_you_don

you guys, they spend lots of money getting that just-pissed-on look and feel down pat, show some appreciation

u are allowed to at while u ride and none of them are the green line

i've seen moss in the nyc subway. MOSS.

eat while u ride

oh no we'll definitely send millions of our boys to get murdered to keep that indivisible bit, even if the chunk that's trying to leave is the poorly-run-enterprise chunk

now wait a minute, what?

all this shit could have been avoided with a congestion charge.

there are some billboards promoting the c-charge still up in east new york, it's pretty sad

Of course it's not enough money non-shockah
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/bailout-funds-for-gm-may-fall-short-analyst-says/

Haha I am not making any type of argument for the supremacy of Boston public transit! I would gladly trade up to "just-pissed-on" from "just-pissed-puked-shat-and-menstruated-on".

yo joe you can't DRINK on the subway, though - a disgraceful situation

wait now I don't know if I'm describing Boston or Philly

agreed drinking should be allowed everywhere

I don't hear the beverage industry crying to warshington for handouts!

youre sort of allowed to drink on the subway

jsut like youre sort of allowed to smell like shit and have no pants on and sleep at 2 in the afternoon sprawled out on four cars headed out to far rockaway

uh four seats

lol reed richards is a homeless person

Surely he could construct a home out of his own body?

are you hungover Tombot?

we gonna die. dow below 8000. everyone panic!

eurgh

nasdaq is down 47% this year

I would gladly trade up to "just-pissed-on" from "just-pissed-puked-shat-and-menstruated-on".

NASA has a solution.

I don't know what this means but it looks crazy.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/adj-and-req-reserves.png

haha thats my feeling about 90% of graphs i see on this thread

o no where are those lines going!

come back we need u!

i bought more berkshire

http://i37.tinypic.com/124wz79.jpg

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 350 points or over 3% with less than 30 minutes left in the session.

The Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index lost 4.3% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) lost almost 3%.

While there's no sense of panic at the moment, there's also no eagerness to step in and buy, said Tom Schrader, managing director at Stifel Nicolaus.

"The wealth destruction is phenomenal," Schrader said.

"wealth destruction!" they should call it "dream destruction" so people would realize what's really at stake here

http://i37.tinypic.com/rvityc.jpg

lolwidget

TSX 7,724.80 -9.02%

http://i33.tinypic.com/vr34g9.jpg

imagining those guys yelling SHOW ME THE MONEY at nancy pelosi cuba gooding jr style is way funnier than the original

i bought more berkshire

― bnw, Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:59 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

only thing abt this is warren buffet is really old

so is your mom

a dude i know on another MB compiled a list of companies that lost 80% or more in the last 12 months.

many of them wont make it but invest in the right ones and you will eventually make some $$

Ford
General Motors
Citigroup
CBS Broadcasting
Morgan Stanley
MGM Mirage
Merrill Lynch
US Steel
Alcoa
Sirius Radio
Sprint Nextel
Motorola
Expedia
Macy's
United Airlines
Reliant Energy
Abercrombie
Office Depot
Cigna
Sun Microsystems

gallows lolz but lol @ abercrombie

US Steel
Alcoa
Sprint Nextel
Expedia
MGM Mirage
Sun Microsystems
Citigroup

^^^^ I like these

guess i better use this macys gift card soon huh