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Picture Of The Day: Even (Vampire) Squids Meet Their Maker Eventually

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Just like in nature, huge (market moving, trading perfection) squids end up as a whale's breakfast sooner or later.

courtesy HuffPo




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Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:29 | Link to Comment Great Depressio...
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HAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Nice TD

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:44 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:34 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:00 | Link to Comment ZerOhead
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:35 | Link to Comment Quackking
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And all this time I thought the gentle Whale was a vegan...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:37 | Link to Comment Ruth
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priceless

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:38 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:39 | Link to Comment callistenes
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That would be when Benny's helo runs out of gas!

 

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:39 | Link to Comment Brigante
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BU-HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!! BU-HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!

 

Awesome sight for the weekend. It will help me sleep straight. Thanks Tyler!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:42 | Link to Comment Greyzone
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Reality always bats last. And she always wins. It's just a matter of time.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:45 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:15 | Link to Comment tip e. canoe
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JPMoby Dick

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:25 | Link to Comment desk-jockey
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it's sooooOoosoooooo SOOOO Dimon!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:45 | Link to Comment brown_hornet
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If the squid is GS, is the whale the gold market?

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:48 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:49 | Link to Comment SV
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My guess is the Whale represents Bond Vigilantes that come out of hiding to jack IRS positions around.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:48 | Link to Comment monmick
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That's a nice picture of The People's Bank of China. You don't often see it smiling like that...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:48 | Link to Comment ahab
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so who's the whale in this pictogram-

not Moby Dick- pray tell

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:03 | Link to Comment ZerOhead
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Looks like a Goldman Sachs beach party below...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:49 | Link to Comment EB
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When it rains, it pours.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:56 | Link to Comment Steak
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The question as I see it, is not does the Fed favor Goldman.  The more relevant question is how badly does the Fed need Goldman to facilitate the workings of the alphabet soup of liquidity programs...I don't know if its possible for two parasites to have a symbiotic relationship but GS and the Fed sure seem like they're on that level.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:17 | Link to Comment buzzsaw99
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GS has corrupted/infiltrated the fed, the executive, and the legislative branches of government. There is no "favors" to it. They are what they are, no less than the puppetmaster behind it all.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:17 | Link to Comment Gunther
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I do not know enough biology to answer your question in a narrow sense.

In human relations that can be described as a contract between two parties at the expense of a third (tax-paying) party.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:02 | Link to Comment monmick
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... and in vulgar terms that can be described as "sucking each other's dick"...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:26 | Link to Comment mitack
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Thats not even nearly vulgar enough to describe how the taxpayer is being had.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:25 | Link to Comment Winisk
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A successful parasite doesn't harm it's host. The evolutionary bias of parasites is to promote the health of the host thereby ensuring it's survival. I always thought the parasite analagy was a good one but there has been a shift in my thinking. Goldman Sucks has a more predatory posture.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:30 | Link to Comment Steak
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I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify this company. I realized that its not actually a bank of any kind. Every bank on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but this company does not. It moves to an area, and multiplies, and multiplies, until every shred of wealth is consumed. The only way this company can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Goldman Sachs is a disease, a cancer of this planet, they are a plague, and we are the cure.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:47 | Link to Comment Sisyphus
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Nice!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:51 | Link to Comment Neo of Zion
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Easy there Agent Smith...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:02 | Link to Comment Gordon_Gekko
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Good one!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:51 | Link to Comment casino capitalism
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Hello President "change we can believe in" Obama.  Are you there????

Reed Says ‘I’m Sorry’ for Role in Creating Citigroup (Update1)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=albMYVE7D578

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:52 | Link to Comment Racer
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LOL and I see GS is down 1% today on the back of that rumour  ;)

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:54 | Link to Comment Careless Whisper
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courtesy HuffPo? How about a guest column from Arianna?

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:56 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:04 | Link to Comment Capitalist Man
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Who plays the Japanese fishing boat?

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:11 | Link to Comment SV
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+1 for thinking about the end game.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:05 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:24 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:33 | Link to Comment Assetman
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That whale would be China... the only entity with enough capital to eat the giant vampire squid whole.

The U.S. taxpayer is a little tiny jellyfish.  One jellyfish won't hurt The Squid at all.  A thousand jellyfish would leave a good sting.  300 million jellyfish would render The Squid to FUBAR status.

Right now, the jellyfish are feeding on plankton and watching Sponge Barack Square Pants.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:12 | Link to Comment DaveyJones
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Agreed (1) China's the only whale in the water and (2) Biden does sound and act like Patrick.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:05 | Link to Comment Gordon_Gekko
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Agreed.

"Sponge Barack Square Pants" - ROTFL!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:05 | Link to Comment Arthor Bearing
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Sharpen your knives folk... wait, you guys are all traders too. Well, buy yourselves some armor.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:19 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:40 | Link to Comment jg
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I want some Golden Schmucks calamari, first bludgeoned, then deep-fried!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 18:16 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:57 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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Goldman Sachs reality construction is this.

We're assholes. We're cheats, We're liars. We're here to force you to live peacefully with our reality consturction. Schools over people are going to stop doing their lessons again.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:37 | Link to Comment Hammer59
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zzzzzzzzzzzz

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:40 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/06/2009 - 17:42 | Link to Comment Racer
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This takes the biscuit..

 "Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley along with other big New York employers,  received hundreds, even thousands, of H1N1 vaccine doses before hospitals and other healthcare providers, many of which have run out of the precious drug."

 

I am totally gobsmacked!

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:41 | Link to Comment mitack
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At least 2 good reasons:

1) The vampires need to be in good health,

otherwise your blood, I meant 401k, will go to

waste when/if H1N1 kills you...

2) They cant afford to not suck your blood because it got infected- imagine how pathetic of an excuse would that be...

On a separate note, I hear those new genetically manufactured vaccines (not from eggs) are highly
experimental and not nearly enough tested, otherwise
why would the congress give big pharma legal immunity
to convince them make it ? So in this line of thinking, give them more of it, I am just curious by nature...

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 18:00 | Link to Comment Racer
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Wow, they are out to get everyone who dares to say how it is

 

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/bloggers-right-to-free-speech-and-use.html

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 18:29 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 11/06/2009 - 20:48 | Link to Comment tom a taxpayer
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Our only hope is for a whale of a prosecutor... hungry for GS, the Kobe beef of scungilli.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 21:09 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 02:20 | Link to Comment SRV - ES339
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Hey Ano... leave poor Hank alone... he was clearly working under death threats (against himself and family... on his knees begging for the bailout)... "Banksters" play hardball my friend.

The real problem is... the Banksters get away with it, with impunity... lets focus all this powerful intellect (at ZH) on the root cause, and see what we can do about it. All this acerbic wit is a waste of time and energy... in my humble opinion.

mg

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 14:59 | Link to Comment Cursive
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Sperm whale?  Bonin Island?  You can't make this stuff up....

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