Comments on: The Fed Says . . .

By: wunsacon

wunsacon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:31:20 +0000

>> a good war will solve our economic problems

I prefer death panels and soylent green. Mmm… “yummo”.

By: hue

hue — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:15:06 +0000

a good war will solve our economic problems, speaking for someone who’s too old for the draft. why pay back the Chinese, just take them over, but then we end up with their problem, billions of people looking for work.

By: hue

hue — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:11:22 +0000

Ha Mr. Sucks. just noticed the trade of pickups for pickups with debased dollars for clunkers. blink around here, and you can miss some good shiite. i’ll have to steal that too and shout it into the void via the Blue Bird.

By: wunsacon

wunsacon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:05:48 +0000

>> advocatusdiaboli Says:
>> November 4th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
>> @CNBC S Not only is “War is the mother of taxation, inflation, and loss of freedoms.”, but don’t forget that FDR’s stimuli only pulled unemployment down to about 19% in the 1930s–it was the massive government deficit spending gearing up for WWII that really pulled the US out of the GD.

So, it was the government stimulus *after* the government stimulus that pulled us out of the GD? Hmmm… I’m confused.

By: bergsten

bergsten — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:13 +0000

Great/Grate?

By: hue

hue — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:47:47 +0000

awesome ahab, i like this bit the best: “There were about 26 legitimate emperors in this century and only one of them died a natural death. The rest either died in battle or were assassinated, which was totally unprecedented in Roman history — with two exceptions: Nero, a suicide, and Caligula, assassinated earlier.”

we have such short memory in this country. we can’t look back 20 years to Japan. studying roman fiscal policy will be impossible.

Hugh Hendry says that people think the past 30 years were normal, he says when you look back 300 years, the past 30 years were like the blow off top.

By: CNBC Sucks

CNBC Sucks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:45:52 +0000

Like Republican Ritholtz, I have many names: CNBC Sucks, The Great CNBC Sucks, CNBCS, TGCNBCS, The Great One, Mr. Sucks. All of those terms of endearment are fine, but my personal favorite is “The Great”.

By: franklin420d

franklin420d — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:38:39 +0000

AWWWW JEEZ. Mr. Sucks……….Did I here/hear/heer that correct MR. Sucks……. Or maybe I did not read/red it right/wright.

But MR. Sucks????????

WOW sorry for all the disrespect in calling ewe/you “TGCNBCS” From now on eye/I will bee/be sure to call you Mr. Sucks……..LOL that is funny…….Mr.Sucks

By: call me ahab

call me ahab — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:27:54 +0000

hue- here is the original post-

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/a-modest-proposal-a-nation-of-bankers/#comment-215567

By: CNBC Sucks

CNBC Sucks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:21:38 +0000

MRegan — Bergsten alerted me with an email excitedly reporting that I had “annoyed at least one”, referring to your comment. Irony is sometimes lost on my wholesome helpful worrywart friend, and in any case, since I annoy many people, the occurrence of one singular annoyance is nothing remarkable to The Great CNBC Sucks. Nevertheless, I must profess amusement at your retort, finding it vaguely CNBCSucksesque, sprinked with a few decorative alliterations and spiced with even a bit of Hofferesque vague references. As a Schumpeterian ultrabear, I find your “Misean permabears” the most apt description of the Ritholtz lot. Well done, MRegan, well done!