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Leader Of Largest Italian Labor Union To Propose General Strike In June

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Just Reuters headlines for now, but rather self-explanatory. Time for the IMF to raise PIIGS GDP forecasts again: after all the less people work, the greater the GDP, according to recent GAAP-endorsed changes to the GDP definition.




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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:12 | Link to Comment Turd Ferguson
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"The Coming Insurrection"

Its going to be a long, hot summer.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:13 | Link to Comment Kataphraktos
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Will there be cannolis?

What? No fucking ziti?

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:14 | Link to Comment Apostate
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Well, when they're finished beating the shit out of each other, it'll probably be a cheap vacation. 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:19 | Link to Comment Ragnarok
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I always wanted to see Florence and Sienna.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:21 | Link to Comment Apostate
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Yeah. I need a new pair of shoes and a fine briefcase. Best to wait until after the calamity. 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:25 | Link to Comment Whizbang
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I was thinking real estate. That corinthean leather turned out to be a scam.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:08 | Link to Comment carbonmutant
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I want to see Whole Foods drop the price of Parmigiano Reggiano.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:18 | Link to Comment betterlockaway
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Va bene amico!!!  Favaloso!!! 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:18 | Link to Comment doomandbloom
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definitely green shoots....this is a jobless, workless recovery... 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:26 | Link to Comment piceridu
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Tutto a posto! Crema di Bernanke

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:29 | Link to Comment ALPO
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> the less people work, the greater the GDP, according to recent GAAP-endorsed changes to the GDP definition

What is TD referring to?

 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:32 | Link to Comment Apostate
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Referring to the fact that the political-banking complex believes that double-entry book keeping was invented by Satan. 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:30 | Link to Comment Zina
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No problem... France has about 3 general strikes per year and it no even make scratches in the french economy...

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:35 | Link to Comment Salinger
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hedge funds and disney

which funds play in DIS stock?

 

apparently insider info was being offered for sale to hedgies

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:48 | Link to Comment BearOfNH
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Do they mean a day in June, or the whole month?

 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:50 | Link to Comment Catullus
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Fuck. Really. I get there on June 1 for honeymoon.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:02 | Link to Comment goldfreak
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well, you can still get laid though

 

shopero!  tutti cuanti!!

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:26 | Link to Comment BlackBeard
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The upside is: your honeymoon will be very exciting!

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:14 | Link to Comment carbonmutant
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 Apparently these strikes are a prerequisite to a bailout.

At least that's how the Greeks did it.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:22 | Link to Comment Rick Blaine
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Hell, I'd go on strike too...

It's got to be frustrating to look across the pond and see the big, fat Americans living well beyond their means by doing nothing more than continuously printing money in one manner or another.

I can only hope that this soon turns into protests on the streets of Rome, with thousands of Italians chanting in unison "Print more money, print more money...!!!"

I mean, if they dumped the Euro, and just starting printing a seemingly infinite supply of their own currency, then every citizen of Italy could clearly have a Ferrari...right???

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:27 | Link to Comment Mitchman
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GAAP doesn't apply in Italy. It's IFRS.  :-) 

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 13:34 | Link to Comment Duke of Doubt
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So when did Italy claim June for the riot of the month club?  Wasn't Spain suppost to get June?  Or was it July?  I am soooo confused.  Is Portugal August?

Thu, 05/27/2010 - 06:09 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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EVERYBODY is rioting in June.

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 15:18 | Link to Comment carbonmutant
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Well they need to get this strike in before everyone heads out to Ibiza for the next couple of months...

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