Uncle Sam Wants You . . .
By Barry Ritholtz - December 7th, 2008, 8:03AM
I believe this was from a German magazine — the grammar isn’t quite right . . .
Hat tip Gretz from Switzerland
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
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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December 7th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I look for the issuance of “War bonds” — to help fight the war on debt — any day now.
December 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
The original poster said, “I WANT YOU for U.S. Army”. Those crazy Germans may have some wild ideas, but I think they actually got the verbage correct by getting their idea across and staying with the history.
They want us to stop the financial crisis just like we wanted us (ourselves) for US ARMY.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
dsimmons – I was thinking along that line myself
Madison Ave and the other “catch your attention industries” are in a realm of being outrageous or funny (unrelated ridiculous sometimes) to capture our attention – its what the MSM picks up on usually – it new and edgy – it hip to be bad
whats next bothers me – beyond utilmate fighter – live war – blurred playboy bunny privates – Hannity / Combs and Rush – fire and brimstone religion for being ____