Portfolio of Securitized Souls
By Barry Ritholtz - April 30th, 2010, 4:00PM
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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.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Sadly perfect indeed.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Yes, funny.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
finally — a commodity that politicians (being soulless) are perfectly suited to creates laws to govern.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
This wouldn’t be as funny except that a similar scam was perpetrated in actuality. The scam involved putting your soul in escrow till you were dead thus allowing yourself to become a complete reprobate without staining your soul. The perp rented a safe deposit box and when confronted with the scam said,”Prove there aren’t any souls in there”.
April 30th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
You see, Blankenfein was right.
Screwing over the Devil is good.
Screwing over the Devil is God’s work.
Ergo, GS was in fact doing God’s work!
Regards,
TDL
April 30th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
There is always an element of truth in humor.
Buckle your safety belt kids, Uncle Ben is going to go for a little ride.
April 30th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
As a “Peasant” from the “Hinterlands” who saw the Housing Bubble coming and anticipated when it started to implode “I SALUTE THIS CARTOON!”
We who have been screwed understand! LOL’s
April 30th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
PS…Saw the Tech Bubble, too. Got out just in time. Not all of us out here couldn’t make sense of it all…but so many others never saw it coming..and that’s the bad part.
May 1st, 2010 at 3:21 am
From Wiki:
Dr. Duncan MacDougall (c. 1866 – 15 October, 1920) was an early 20th century physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death.
Ideas about the soul
In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis in an old age home. It was relatively easy to determine when death was only a few hours away, and at this point the entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale which was apparently sensitive to the gram. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients within minutes or hours after death. Other studies were soon put forward to confirm the results.
:shock:
May 1st, 2010 at 7:50 am
@CM
When they finally cut up the well-pampered bodies (o happy days) of geithner,orszag, bernanke, summers, h. paulson, j. paulson, greenspan, rubin,friedman,fuld,frank, thain,dodd,mozillo,o’neal, gensler, cassano, blankfein, shapiro,yellin, fink,kashkari, cohn,dudley,dugan, kagan,gramm,clinton, bush they will find that they weighed exactly the same prior to, during, and after death, and a stake thru their leaky, black hearts is the only thing that will stop them from returning from the grave.
May 1st, 2010 at 10:25 am
@flip
no doubt when Bush gets asked for soul he put on a CD
May 1st, 2010 at 10:25 am
*puts