The Onion on Obama’s Obsessive Supporters
By Barry Ritholtz - November 6th, 2008, 8:30PM
"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position." —Anonymous
Macro Notes
US$ rally continuesPeter Boockvar
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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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.