But Still Better Than Expected . . .
By Barry Ritholtz - August 10th, 2009, 4:30PM
Hat tip: immobilienblasen
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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.
August 10th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Hilarious because its true
August 10th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Yes Hilarious
August 10th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
That bear sitting down in the chair kinda looks like you BR…
Although you’re a tad more svelte…
August 10th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Warum haben sie zu einer Deutschspraechiger Blog verbindet?
August 10th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
That’s much funnier than this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn#Remake
August 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
@nanka
eine gute Idee
CV
August 10th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
@BR
BTW…(vis-a-vis…nanka’s post)…
Time to go GLOBAL BR…You not only need German Language links, you should do Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian…I’d nominate others like Indian or some of the various Scandinavian languages as well, but the large part of their educated populace speak English…
Nanka may be onto something here…
August 10th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Et pourquoi pas en Francais?
A lot of Paul Jorion readers keep up with your blog .
http://www.pauljorion.com/blog/
@cvienne
lol , I don’t know if BR will appreciate…funny though.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
@beaufou
J’ai essayé de racheter moi-même, avec d’autres commentaire (vis-a-vis nanka)…
en dépit de…merci :-)…Nous allons voir…
August 10th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
That just gave me a great idea for a cartoon. Too bad I’m not a cartoonist. Maybe if there is one out there then can use the idea. Think of the movie the picture of Dorian Grey only with a young strong looking bull. In the picture is either an old bull or a bear. The caption could say something like “The Picture of Dorian Bull” :)
August 10th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@HTCMSI
That would be “portrait”…
August 10th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
@wunsacon
When I saw the link before I clicked on it I was thinking Chinese invaders. What a thing to say to your main creditors.
If they are going to use Chinese invaders they should make it a financial caper. The heroes could end up hiding on their own farm in a scenario like cvienne has going. He could be a technical consultant for the film. If they really wanted to scare the stuffing out of folks then Chinese bond buyers buying up America and throwing the people into economic slavery would be much scarier than an invasion with guns :)
Now if they really wanted a more honest movie why not use Mexico as the invading army? The premise could have all the illegal aliens in the US rising up and joining the side of the Mexican drug cabal controlled army as it crossed the border to the surprise of the local folks. Could you imagine the political waves created if they did that? At least they wouldn’t anger their main creditor though
August 10th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
@ cv
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/
August 10th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
@CM: Oooh that’s scary. All the hispanics here from there are “like programmed Manchurian Candidate types pr programmed aliens”. When the code word is received they become violent assassins and revolutionaries.
Wonder if they’ll be on the little guy’s side? Probably not. They’d just as soon take more of the jobs to Mexico. Except how do you export lawn service?
August 11th, 2009 at 12:08 am
@HTCMSI
I’m referring to the object (vis-a-vis – in the cartoon), versus the novel or movie rendition thereof…
August 11th, 2009 at 12:43 am
@alfred e
This is hollywood we’re talking about, not reality. The only thing that might stop the premise is how the insult would affect box office receipts. After all, they don’t have a problem with a Chinese invasion. Why is that do you suppose?
August 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
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August 12th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I am watching Squawk Box this morning — and Joe Kernan mentioned this cartoon!
Of course, he wasn’t classy enough to mention where he saw it.