Irrational Exuberance: Then & Now
By Barry Ritholtz - December 9th, 2009, 4:00PM
via RJ Matson, NY Observer
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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.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Yes!
rt
December 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
just my impression- but the cartoon makes Bernanke look like a hobo ot maybe Snuffy Smith-
speaking of hobo’s- where’s dead hobo been
December 9th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
We have met the enemy…how did that pogo thing go?
rt
December 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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December 9th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Bernanke looks like the Emmett Kelly clown doll that I had as a kid.
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December 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Look like a couple of used car salesmen. Wait…they are (US$).
December 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
@BR: Incredibly cool. And true. To be a poet. And your post is poetry.
There used to be a name for what’s happening: tragicomedy.
And that’s where we are. Love or hate it. Endure it.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
True – verry funny. Greenspan’s comment would have been correct had the lily-livered government folks allowed a couple more Lehman-type collapses. They would have regulated themselves right quick, methinks! Nothing, but nothing, is stronger than the survival instinct.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:21 am
“We can be trusted to regulate financial markets [under the oversight of the GS board as we buy companies and assets we deem fit, at the expense of the purchasing power of the American consumer base, as we print new bills to fund our campaign].”
December 10th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Bernanke’s immaculately trimmed full beard reveals him to be a stretched reincarnation of Doc from the seven dwarfs. Except that Doc was only ever interested in real money and the occasional girl.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:40 am
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