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Levin, Brown Introduce China Currency Bill

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Well, they threaten to sell our crap, we punish them for pegging to the world's most manipulated currency. Quid pro quo Clarice.

More as we see it

 

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Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:03 | 950517 PicassoInActions
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can i use it in wallmart?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:46 | 950672 jus_lite_reading
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Must.... close.... market.... green!

 

14 MINUTES TO GO AND THEY GOT IT AGAIN!!!

 

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:59 | 950751 dbach
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the afternoon boner went limp at the last minute there...

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:07 | 950783 firstdivision
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Nope, the boner hit full erection there at the end.  That was lovely manipulation there.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 18:14 | 951098 SheepDog-One
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You know its over when your 6 year old niece runs up to you at the computer and says 'WOW imagine that, the Bernank closed it green again'?? Heh heh its so over...Charles Dow's shoeshine buy aint got shit.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 19:00 | 951251 cranky-old-geezer
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Hey, smart kid, smarter than about 95% of American adults.  Give 'er a ZH "you go girl" for us.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:06 | 950523 AccreditedEYE
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Modern day Smoot-Hawley cometh! lol

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:28 | 950864 Charles Wilson
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Amen, Brother and pass the Plate.

Maybe somebody out there will lend us their truck and some jumper cables and we can see if we can revive Jude Wanniski!

Oh Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.

 

Are we in the soup now.  Hold on to your Dinkys and Fun Buttons folks.  We are headed for 45 miles of Bad Road!

 

TRADE WAR!!!

 

CW

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:47 | 950961 topcallingtroll
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I will hold the nearest funbutton if someone will hold my dinky.

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 05:02 | 952266 sethstorm
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So be it.  Appeasing China hasn't done us any good.

It'll be kind of nice to see it not play beggar-thy-neighbor this time around.

 

 

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:08 | 950529 QQQBall
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Fava beans will be on the tarriff list.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:31 | 950875 Logans_Run
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But hopefully not Cianti!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:44 | 950951 topcallingtroll
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That has got to be a cantilevered crotch. Why not put it right side up so i dont have to twist my neck so far?

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 00:31 | 952090 StychoKiller
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There's plenty of pr0n on the interwebz, just not on this site -- unless you count currency manipulation and fraud as pr0n -- well, party on then! :>D

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:08 | 950532 Jason T
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I'm with Trump.. 25% tarriff.  We need to rebuild our manufacturing base.  IT's really too late.  

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:11 | 950550 Dr. Porkchop
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Can't be done. People will riot when their salad shooters are no longer $4.99.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:15 | 950567 Kayman
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No Wait !!  That's 2... count 'em, 2 Salad Shooters for $4.99. And, of course, this handy Cheese Cutter comes with it...

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:18 | 950572 dick cheneys ghost
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wait, there's more...........

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:23 | 950603 tmosley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0kWqJJZa4&feature=related

I think this may be the limit of American industrial capacity for a while.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 19:09 | 951269 Kayman
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Especially if you use a "made in China" powersaw.

1. Rope breaks on first pull.

2. Chain won't cut thru melted butter.

3. Motor overheats and burns your house down.

But, naturally, it's cheap at Chinese Wallmart.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:34 | 950649 youngman
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...and thats not all.....a cap snaffler....

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:20 | 950591 I Am The Unknow...
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Channeling the ghost of Billy Mays?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:21 | 950594 william the bastard
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Trump runs a reality show, has been bankrupted, has stiffed the public with a Jersey casino, stiffed the public with a joke of an airline, whores out his name on the most bloated of miami condos, wouldn't take a breath without ginning the vig. He's qualified!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:19 | 950585 arkady
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Basic economics = fail.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:43 | 950697 DonnieD
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Basic economics also says we will send them all of our jobs and wealth until we are on even footing.

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 06:29 | 952297 Bobbyrib
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I remember reading that in the Law of Comparative Advantage...

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:11 | 950798 arby63
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Agreed but make it 35%. After the announcement we should NUKE North Korea and put about 2000 Patriot Missiles in Hong Kong.

The Chicoms are mercantilist assholes. They talk a big game but they are disorganized and hold their people by the throat.

We give them way more credit than they deserve.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:09 | 950534 grunk
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... until death do us part.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:09 | 950538 InconvenientCou...
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M.A.D. has a way of raising the tension doesn't it? Please pass the fava beans.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:20 | 950590 jus_lite_reading
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Mutually Assured Dollarprinting?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:11 | 950548 Shameful
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rotflol!

Wait wait wait! So let me get this straight. China is thinking about selling, which would almost force them to float their currency. The side effect is a dollar wasteland...so the brain trust in DC wants to force their hand and force them to help Zimbabwe Ben blow up the dollar?

I think we have gone beyond the pale of pure stupidity. Feces flinging chimps have a better grasp on the situation. Empty out San Diego Zoo and lets get a Chimp House and Senate. Couldn't do any more harm, and the legislation might be more readable. Get enough of them working on enough typewriters and we'll get Hamlet. On the plus side the chimps will be way more cute then the current crop of sub humanoid creatures residing in Mordor on the Potomac.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:23 | 950601 Misean
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We had a chimp in the War House for 8 years...really wasn't all that good.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:28 | 950623 tmosley
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Well, more like we had this guy in the White House for 8 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8a5zUPx3Bs

Shrub was more of a figurehead.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:35 | 950659 Shameful
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Bush sadly never flung poo at any debates or press conferences...that I'm aware of but if there is a clip I'm willing to watch it.  If I'm going to live in a combination of the Twilight Zone and Far Side then I demand more comedy!  Lets go down a few notches on the evolutionary chain (I know it's arguable but I want another species dammit). Tell me you wouldn't like to see a chimp in a 5k suit sitting at a state dinner then tossing a hot load of feces at some head of state.  Imagine the media circus, and I mean that literally!  We are paying top dollar, I want top dollar entertainment!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:44 | 950703 AccreditedEYE
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 I want top dollar entertainment!

Something to hold you over Shameful...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSV52JrWXQ

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:36 | 950902 topcallingtroll
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That would be funny as shit!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:37 | 950669 william the bastard
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It's only been 2 years! Seems like 8!!!!

 

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:40 | 950924 topcallingtroll
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You havent thought it all the way through. It will be a china wasteland not a dollar wasteland.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:49 | 950967 Shameful
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Oh I have. Remove the welfare/warfare state and this country rips itself apart.  China is action packed with problems but they have a few tricks that can be used to rally the people, IE quick war with Taiwan or Vietnam.  If China kicks out the floor of the dollar the only answer would be a quick default or print to make up for the wave of selling.  I think the wave of selling might lock limit up a lot of commodities for a long time, and I'm willing to bet that social cohesion is lost well before $20 a gallon gas and milk.

Now if you are going to argue that infinite deficit spending for eternity is viable I'm willing to hear it.  But eventually the planet is going to tell us to shove off.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 18:09 | 951068 SheepDog-One
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Yea Shameful, what does the US have preventing chaos other than about half the people on food stamps, 99+ weeks of unemployment...nothing!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:12 | 950552 Ecoman11
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Which one can be done faster- implementing tariffs or dumping dollars?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:42 | 950688 slewie the pi-rat
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pimp & dump

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:12 | 950553 sabra1
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didn't timmy say no? on one told these guys!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:13 | 950556 Pure Evil
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Snooze Alert: Congressional idiots running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Next up, Bernanke prints another trillion.....zzzzzzzzzzzz

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:13 | 950558 Greater Fool
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Is it called the "Forcing China to Unpeg So Consumer Prices Rise and Inflation Totally Kicks Our Ass Act?"

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:15 | 950565 reTARD
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Let's see if they are willing to touch our banks' fecal backed securities?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj96ZkLpbVI&feature=player_embedded
Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:19 | 950577 arkady
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So utterly stupid, but then again, the whole world is convinced that the Yuan is undervalued so who can blame the Congresscritters from slurping up the kool-aid.

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 00:37 | 952096 StychoKiller
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"POMO-ADE, the Growth Thirst Mutilator - Rich in "electronlytes".  Pour it on everything and watch it grow."

 

Still cracks me up! :>D

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:19 | 950584 jus_lite_reading
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Tit for tat...

Welcome to the start of things to come

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:21 | 950593 MrTrader
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China Currency Bill? Is this the bill presented to Wall Street a$$holes for bringing the whole country down?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:22 | 950599 buzlightening
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bendover has AmeriCON'd set up for a free jiffy lube! It's goon-a hurt every last working class AmeriCON'd individual to the raw bone!!!! Operation prepartion "H" near completed!! OUCH!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:24 | 950605 Misean
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King Arthur's rebuttal to the Black Knight comes to mind:

"What're ya gonna do? Bleed on me?"

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:22 | 950725 slewie the pi-rat
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when excalibur is freed from the stone, the sybols R no longer ossified,,,,,,,,,::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

then all who arnt nitenite knightz can uni-fry the kinkdome, ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 00:09 | 952065 tmosley
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Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 01:29 | 952150 RockyRacoon
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It would only bring that rat back to normal.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:27 | 950616 Josh Randall
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Does this mean they arent allowed to build our rail systems any more ?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:29 | 950627 william the bastard
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imeldt is Chinese?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:34 | 950657 Josh Randall
Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:39 | 950674 william the bastard
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For the strip clubs likely

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:05 | 950777 InconvenientCou...
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You should prollly visit before making that comment.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 18:15 | 951100 Boxed Merlot
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Article describes their humble almost ah shucks approach to trying to understand the native environment. C'mon, these people own more paper and deeds of trust to real estate in the valley than fannie and freddie combined, or certainly could with a couple months of interest payments on the treasuiers they're holding.

They could likely build their own railroad on CA land they already own. But don't wake the US citizen up to the fact his country's been sold out from under him, he still can't believe his country's currency is actually owned by a private enterprise.

The new Hudson Bay Co. from China trading beads for islands.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:28 | 950621 plata pura
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Oh hell yes; protectionism be called for all up in this mofo. Tariffs, getting the fok out of NAFTA, CAFTA, NKFTA, WTO, GATT, UN etc. Top it off with ending corporate personhood.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:31 | 950637 Panafrican Funk...
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What is:  list of things that will never happen, ever?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:32 | 950880 topcallingtroll
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You won the daily double!

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 01:31 | 952154 RockyRacoon
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Improbable Events for $100, Alex.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:29 | 950630 Bigger Dickus
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Benny the Mad Printer in happier times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sKTjBZST4Y

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:30 | 950635 mt paul
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dollar

dumping

tariff....

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:35 | 950658 AldoHux_IV
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Heard some douchebag on tv say how we can teach the Egyptian about democratic politics-- please, it's like the fed trying to teach the Chinese how not to manipulate one's currency.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:53 | 950731 slewie the pi-rat
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NOTHING healthier than watching douchebags on tv  //s//!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:41 | 950681 Canucklehead
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Slightly off topic:

Bank of America hires lawyers to contain Wikileaks.  These lawyers hire technology firms to inflitrate the hacker community and get the "goods".

Guess what happens next....

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks?page=1

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:10 | 950795 John McCloy
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Thats cute that they found taxpayer money to ensure their corruption continues.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:43 | 950695 jmc8888
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Hannibal will be pissed when his fava beans go hyperinflationary.  Paging clarice, once pissed off hannibal.

No Glass-Steagall, just threatening the hand that helped feed the ponzi (pre-fed). 

Woo hoo.  Way to get it competely wrong congress. 

Hannibal won't like it either, and he'll be able to smell the hooker lobbyists you banged yesterday before announcing this. 

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:56 | 950791 slewie the pi-rat
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breakfast of champions 4 the slaughterhouse 5?

cornholing chilren w/ wheat-ease!

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Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:14 | 950813 nmewn
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It puts the lotion on it's skin!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:17 | 950820 Quinvarius
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There really isn't any good option here.  We did the damage aready.  Do we want to kicked in the balls or have our balls stomped on?

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 01:32 | 952156 RockyRacoon
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Doesn't matter to a gelding.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:29 | 950866 topcallingtroll
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The collase of the most distorted malinvested unbalanced economy of all time will be interesting to watch. They will probably after lots of bluster pull themselves back from the brink and give us most of their material wealth increases and glumly accept their fate over the next two years. We can replace china with bangladesh and vietnam if they dont play nice and do what the new master says. Piss on them harder ben. Make sure they know that you know they have no choice. If they decide to play chicken a little longer we know who starves and riots first. So do they!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 17:55 | 950995 Clint Liquor
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The collase of the most distorted malinvested unbalanced economy of all time will be interesting to watch.

You are be describing the USA?

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 18:08 | 951064 gwar5
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Chinese currency bill..... this is ridiculous. 

They should just impose tarriffs, and justify it, if that's the way they want to go.

 

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 18:10 | 951076 SheepDog-One
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Now we're going to try to bully around China? NICE work, Clowngress!

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 19:37 | 951349 cranky-old-geezer
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Stop debasing our currency?  Noooooooooo.

Stop bullying / threatening other nations into revaluing theirs?  Noooooooooooo.

Start making stuff here again so we don't have to buy everything from China?  Noooooooooooo.

Start doing anything that would approach common sense?  Noooooooooooooooooooo.

Thu, 02/10/2011 - 21:20 | 951689 Yen Cross
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 That's about it Levy Brown and company. Do ya feel lucky? Do ya?? PUNK!

I'll drill ya so deep they will have to pump Sun Light to ya.

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 04:44 | 952258 oh_bama
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Digital option for "Nothing will be done" is 0.5 bid. If they achieve nothing other than normal politician mombo-jumbo talk, I get paid $1 by 11PM 4/30/2011, (nothing is defined as RMBUSD appreciated less than 3%)

Otherwise you keep my premium. Any offers?

Those guys only talk the talk. They can never get anything done..

 

wahahahahahhaha

 

Fri, 02/11/2011 - 07:43 | 952315 teichman317
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Its not beggar-thy-neighbor its peg-to-thy-neighbor

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