Wiley is running a promotion for all new buyers of Bailout Nation: Buy a copy of the book, and send an email of the receipt to Bailout Nation at Yahoo dot com (adjust email before sending), and you get entered into a contest to win GM stock certs.
I have seen them, and they are pretty damned cool — they look just like the certs below:
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While yesterday's US stock market close was poor, Asia and Europe didn't follow today as debt in Greece, Spain, Portugal, etc... rallied, their CDS narrowed and stocks bounced. The Greek finance minister said January tax revenues came in above expectations and that spending was below target for the month and said "that means the deficit reduction for January is well within what we have promised." The euro is rising in turn. Also helping is the story that Trichet is headed to the European Union leaders summit a day early in order to address Greece's problems even as the Greek finance...
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June 29th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Thanks but I’ll take the bubblegum option instead. More useful.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Kind of reminds me of the Lucent stock floating around a few years ago. One minute locked in a vault. The next, blowing around the neighborhood when garbage cans fell over.
It made terrible wallpaper, but wasn’t so bad for ….. If you didn’t mind “a little rough”.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Barry – I sent in just my amazon email which looks easily forged. Is there a way to send this in without giving all your personal info?
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BR: When you forward an email from Amazon, you should be able to edit out the credit card info
You do need the home address to recieve the cert, tho!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
“all new buyers” — how new? Got a URL for a Wiley site describing this promo?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hokay, I don’t think that spaces are allowed in email names … is it …
BailoutNation-at-etc
Bailout_Nation-at-etc
Bailout-Nation-at-etc
or
Bailout.Nation-at-etc
?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
nevermind, duh-oh! I figgered it out.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Shouldn’t they be issued as Government Motors?
June 30th, 2009 at 12:10 am
It is sad to see what is happening at GM.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Brilliant.
Once the promotion has run its course – if there’s any left – the entity holding all these GM, Chrysler et al old-school share certificates should coordinate something with the Charmin people.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:43 am
They’d make a lovely bookmark.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:10 am
I bought a framed Citigroup cert from Oneshare.com
June 30th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I have an Enron certificate but GM looks cooler and has more history.