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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

2 Responses to “Where’s MY Bailout???”

1. DL Says:
   December 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 am

   Bailouts in Russia, too:

   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aM71GKiXdzZ8&refer=home

2. gloppie Says:
   December 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 am

   “Things did get worse during that week because confidence was just draining out of the system and in some ways that made it easier for us to talk to the banks and say ‘look we’re all in this together.”

   -Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7796329.stm

   I wonder if I’ll be able to use that same line the other way around when I go bankrupt…..