This is perfect for a Friday afternoon: An amusing romp thru Wall Street:
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Via William Banzai7
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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August 27th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
OK, cute. It would be nice if there was a version which had jail bars in front of those ‘celebrity squares’ though.
August 27th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
They all turn crap into gold for themselves though! Aint that America!!!
August 27th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I don’t see Bushium or Paulsonite in the cleptocrat family.
Have you turned into a EIB network ditto head?
August 27th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Thank you for this gold. This guy’s website is absolute treasure. It’s been bookmarked and that bookmark will be used a lot.
August 27th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Roubini and Taleb?
August 27th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Barry – First post here. Awesome blog and great follow-up by the readers. Learned much and I thank you for that.
Just a comment about ECRI and their team. I believe ZH also covered this today. They seem to be issuing numbers around 10, or just below it, only to be revised later. Wondering if Lakshman and gang are upto something here – perhaps spindoctorium !?
August 27th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
they could do better for treas secy G
i suggest fellatium or fallacium. both pronounced the same
August 27th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
call me ahab Says:
August 27th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Roubini and Taleb?
reply:
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They don’t apply. Roubini hates everything and Taleb is too cool to admit anything that might bite his ass later.
August 27th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
correction: see doomium
August 27th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
dh-
they are on the criminal element list- so I was wondering WTF? Considering they were pretty vocal about coming calamity- especially Roubini-
It would be like seeing a ritholtzium on the list
August 27th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
also- dh-
Taleb is listed as blackswanium and Roubini as doomium
August 27th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Is the right most column the Noble Gasbags?
August 27th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Glad to see Maria Fart Aroma in the table. Not a thief, but an accomplice.
*** But ***
Where the F^&*K are the largest perpetrators of the crash: Bush, Paulson, Kash-n-Carry, and some of the biggest beneficiaries like Bill “nationalize all housing financing” Gross?
W/out Bush and Paulson this “table” looks like a political ad.
August 27th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Greenspan doesn’t even get an “-ium.”
August 27th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
If you look at the color coding, you’ll note that Taleb, Roubini and Soros all fall into the “anti matter” category. I suspect that means they are the “anti matter” to the criminal elements, i.e. non-criminal themselves.
Agree that Bush and Paulson are at least as deserving of inclusion as Obama, though I’d also add Gramm and Clinton. It’s not like this started last year.
August 27th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Michael-
good catch- missed that on the anti-matter-
Gramm is revolvingdooron- I think
August 27th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Banzai makes a terrible error in not including the Founding Father of Voodoo economics, the man who taught Dick Cheney that deficits don’t matter and who refused to reappoint Paul Volcker to a second term for not deregulating the financial industry– Mr. Ronnie Reagan.
August 27th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Sorry, I missed Gramm. He should have had a more obvious name, like Grammanium or some such…
August 27th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
There needs to be a separate series of manmade elements along the bottom. Here, by nuclear synthesis, you could add several heads to Greenspan and call the new element Maestronium.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
The analysis of a half-baked presentation is a bridge too far. Roll another one; the pictures work but the Chemistry blows. Give Mendeleev some props. As a work-in-progress, nice try.
August 28th, 2010 at 5:41 am
I don’t get it?
There are about 5,000 + or – people who have been on Wall Street during this statute of limitations time period who belong behind bars. No cartoons, no Weekend Getaway Jokes by Wall Street 60 yr old + moneyed conservative people – let’s get some real pictures up with “real reasons” and and penalize them by confiscating their wealth ( putting their families out on the streets) and do weekly repentance stories from Federal Prisons – on how they have found God and all the other bull shit that makes them empty souls…
maybe even some live suicides…. lets get real!
August 28th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Someone ought to go through The Inferno (I have an old John Ciardi translation) and place the dastards in the appropriate circles/bolgias of Hell.
I nominate Circle Eight, Bolgia Seven. Hideous reptiles coil themselves around the damned. Each sinner’s hands bound behind and coils through their groins. Other reptiles/snakes dart about. One flies into and tears open the jugular of the damned who bursts into flame and only ashes remain. The sinner painfully reforms from the ashes. They are eternally punished: as they destroyed their fellow man by making his wealth disapppear so are they in Hell.
Some crimes may justify the policies and procedures of the Spanish Inquisition… thumb screws, the rack …
August 28th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Google trends: double dip
http://www.google.com/trends?q=double+dip&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
August 28th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Obama stands in place of helium, a lightweight and inactive element.
OK, that works.
August 28th, 2010 at 10:22 am
and then there’s this:
http://questioneverything.typepad.com/
August 28th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Priceless…..
August 28th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
It looks like a republican add. I don’t see President Bush and Mr. Henry Paulson in this Mendelif’s table of Wall Street Criminal Elements.
August 28th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
It just betrays the partisan nature of this guy’s website. On the other hand, financiers are raising lots of money for Republicans who opposed basic financial reforms, which tells you all you need to know about the finance industry.
August 29th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Call me anything you like, but partisan. If you look at my posts in 2008, you will see that I was a staunch supporter of Obama.
Now I would say that my disaffection with his performance equals or exceeds my disgust with the GOP’s douchebags.
I expected what we got from them. But I expected much more from Obama. I won’t even give him credit for trying since in my view all he has done is perpetuate the corrupt financiers.
In short, I’m not partisan, I hate em all.
Thanks for the exposure and comments all. I have revised the table to include Bubbium, Dubyium and Bonzonium
August 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am
No Christopher Cox? He’s the freakin’ oxygen of the thing.