The Onion on Obama’s Obsessive Supporters
By Barry Ritholtz - November 6th, 2008, 8:30PM
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Macro Notes
Jobless ClaimsPeter Boockvar
Initial Jobless Claims totaled 614k, 1k less than expected but the prior month was revised up by 3k to 630k. Continuing Claims fell by 53k from last week and was 38k less than expected. There has been a big discussion of late over the expiration of unemployment insurance and how the recent drop in Continuing Claims is due to people losing it rather than finding a new job. While there is no question benefits are expiring without one finding a job, as evidenced by the rising exhaustion rate, many losing those benefits now started getting them when initial claims were...
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November 6th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Check out the tagline right at the very end, after the second ad:
“Dow Jones plunges on news of Dow Jones Plunge”.
Awesome.
November 7th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Really great. I guess it will balance out with my Republican friends that I sent them this earlier today about Palin not even knowing that Africa is a continent:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/palin_and_africa/
November 7th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I just noticed an odd thing. I read the post, commented and then went to another site. When I came back to the home page of the blog, this entry was missing. I refreshed the page: no change. The post appears in the sidebar link to “recent posts, but the only way to get to it is through that link.
Anyone else see anything like this?
November 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Yes, there has been some posting flakiness.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
It was funny but that’s what true political change is made of, mass obsession.