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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #105 on: April 12, 2009, 01:02:25 am »
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 12:50:34 am
Will the post-economic America still have gun dealers, and what currency will I need to purchase a few dozen?

Bullets?
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #106 on: April 12, 2009, 01:17:57 am »
Quote from: Xooxe on April 12, 2009, 01:02:25 am
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 12:50:34 am
Will the post-economic America still have gun dealers, and what currency will I need to purchase a few dozen?

Bullets?

SHIT! Why does survival have to be so damned complicated!

Are the bullets the currency or for the guns?
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #107 on: April 12, 2009, 02:22:57 am »
Both.  :D
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #108 on: April 12, 2009, 04:23:45 am »
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 12:50:34 am
This thread depresses me.

Will the post-economic America still have gun dealers, and what currency will I need to purchase a few dozen?

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You'll have to do it the good old fashioned biblical way and trade in two of your best cattle and your first born virgin daughter.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #109 on: April 12, 2009, 12:39:40 pm »
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on April 12, 2009, 04:23:45 am
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 12, 2009, 12:50:34 am
This thread depresses me.

Will the post-economic America still have gun dealers, and what currency will I need to purchase a few dozen?

-toa,
the strategic brain behind America's next dictator

You'll have to do it the good old fashioned biblical way and trade in two of your best cattle and your first born virgin daughter.

Oops. Ate her.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #110 on: April 12, 2009, 04:52:59 pm »
buy ford...
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #111 on: April 14, 2009, 12:09:12 pm »
Some US banks are reporting big profits for the 1st quarter.

Is this real or a trick of accounting? Wall Street is responding in a positive way.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Goldman Sachs reported a much stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit Monday, bouncing back from its worst quarter as a public company.

Goldman (GS, Fortune 500) also set plans to raise $5 billion through a sale of stock, saying it wants to become the first big bank to repay the federal loans extended during last fall's financial sector meltdown.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/13/news/goldman.earnings.report.fortune/index.htm

Wells Fargo also reported 1st quarter profits.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #112 on: April 14, 2009, 03:03:45 pm »
Quote from: Hawk on April 14, 2009, 12:09:12 pm
Some US banks are reporting big profits for the 1st quarter.

Is this real or a trick of accounting? Wall Street is responding in a positive way.

They're faking it. Remember: The economy is a matter of national security. The administration has ordered a good economy, to restore public faith in the president, making it easier to accumulate power and enact agendas.

All the world is a stage -- are you an actor or a director?
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #113 on: April 14, 2009, 03:07:28 pm »
Quote from: the other anonymous on April 14, 2009, 03:03:45 pm
Quote from: Hawk on April 14, 2009, 12:09:12 pm
Some US banks are reporting big profits for the 1st quarter.

Is this real or a trick of accounting? Wall Street is responding in a positive way.

They're faking it. Remember: The economy is a matter of national security. The administration has ordered a good economy, to restore public faith in the president, making it easier to accumulate power and enact agendas.

All the world is a stage -- are you an actor or a director?


Nevermind.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #114 on: April 14, 2009, 06:50:17 pm »
Banks have to show they are "struggling" but still viable institutions to qualify for TARP funds.  So they've been desperately cooking the books in order to show they are doing better than expected, but not as good as previous.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #115 on: April 15, 2009, 06:34:51 pm »
you know banking is on the ropes when the swiss is having problems
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7999352.stm
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #116 on: April 15, 2009, 10:21:33 pm »
Quote from: Hawk on April 14, 2009, 12:09:12 pm
Some US banks are reporting big profits for the 1st quarter.

Is this real or a trick of accounting? Wall Street is responding in a positive way.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Goldman Sachs reported a much stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit Monday, bouncing back from its worst quarter as a public company.

Goldman (GS, Fortune 500) also set plans to raise $5 billion through a sale of stock, saying it wants to become the first big bank to repay the federal loans extended during last fall's financial sector meltdown.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/13/news/goldman.earnings.report.fortune/index.htm

Wells Fargo also reported 1st quarter profits.

Funny if the black swan was an unexpected rapid economic recovery.

My beads are selling well. You would think that useless pieces of glass with a hole in them would be the last thing people want in a recession, but what the fuck do I know, I just make beads.
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #117 on: April 15, 2009, 10:23:13 pm »
But they're so pretty...
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #118 on: April 16, 2009, 01:02:07 am »
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“I’m guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk,” Charles Wick said. “It was very complicated.”

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
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Re: UNLIMITED financial fuckery thread
« Reply #119 on: April 16, 2009, 01:52:07 am »
Quote from: Nigel on April 15, 2009, 10:21:33 pm
Quote from: Hawk on April 14, 2009, 12:09:12 pm
Some US banks are reporting big profits for the 1st quarter.

Is this real or a trick of accounting? Wall Street is responding in a positive way.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Goldman Sachs reported a much stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit Monday, bouncing back from its worst quarter as a public company.

Goldman (GS, Fortune 500) also set plans to raise $5 billion through a sale of stock, saying it wants to become the first big bank to repay the federal loans extended during last fall's financial sector meltdown.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/13/news/goldman.earnings.report.fortune/index.htm

Wells Fargo also reported 1st quarter profits.

Funny if the black swan was an unexpected rapid economic recovery.

My beads are selling well. You would think that useless pieces of glass with a hole in them would be the last thing people want in a recession, but what the fuck do I know, I just make beads.

I agree. The final factor is employment always lags behind recovery, but it just may be we have hit bottom.
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