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The large gates of New York’s largest prison open and today’s group of newly released emerge. They pass a guard who lifts up a copy of The USA Today to reveal the headlines and date that tells us it’s 2002. Amongst this group we find a man carrying a small duffel.
And we know this man. He is Gordon Gekko.
But he is not as slick as we remember... he doesn’t have that gleam in his eyes or that gel in his hair. No, this is a very different version of the man we remember... because now there’s nothing behind those eyes... nothing we can read anyway.
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Oceans 14? 15? Geithner 1?
Prison rape will do that to you.
Well at least god had a plan of redemption. Do as I say or you will go to my magic nothing is going to get fixed place.
Greed is gone? Along with all the fortunes.
"one gold money clip, with no money in it"
oliver stone, supreme master of subtlety
We know this man. he is Timmay Geithner.
Oh well. I am still allowed to dream without being taxed right?
Marla, will you be scalping tickets to the premiere? I want dibs. Or you can just bring me as your date. Just don't wear blue.
In 2008 we had Obama Girl - she was the script.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIiMa2Fe-ZQ
i have a feeling this is going to be my fav movie :)
i read a draft of the script. it was f$#%king terrible. let's hope someone who's spent three minutes in finance had a crack at it before they filmed it.
Here's what Gekko has REALLY been up to (and yes, the script for WSII is horrible):the music is sweet, makes me want to go fuck shit up. like go buy oliver stone's catalog and smash it like the shit sandwich it is
Dude, do you have issues? :>)
So true to life it will scare the crap out of even the most jaded movie goers.
Gordon Geeko? Puhleeze. Try 21 instead. Great market movie though it might not seem so at first because it's a different market. Same rules though. I especially liked the birthday cake with the Fibonacci sequence on it.
That was hilarious. I feel so dirty.
Any more awesome and it would have Chuck Norris round-house kicking Vin Deisel so hard he turns straight. Pure. Fucking. Win.
nopat wins.
Vin is very real and straight. He bounced an LA gay bar for years and every queen around tried to do him. To no avail.
Few more genuine than Vin Deisel. He'd kill Chuck.
Drive a truck your whole life and everyone calls you Tim. Suck one dick and they all call you a fag. Although his performance in xXx more than cemented his hero status in my book. He is truly a man who refuses to be typecast, brah.
Puleeze. Vin Diesel is about as straight as Keanu Reeves.
[Using my best Keanu Reeves voice]
Totally agree with you post, brau. Cause, it's like, everything he does is totally original. For sure. And, no way he gets down on his luck and typecasts himself, man.
Real American-action-star-hero-guy. Totally.
That's why they call it a convict buy list.
Fast torrents already available. Nice.
If you want to break free from the Private Banking Scam, just follow the lead from a candidate from Florida...the real solution, just apply to ech state and to the Federal Goverment. Time to break the shackles of the private banking system...
The era of the commercial banking system is over because of:
In contrast, the Khavari Economic Plan, proposes a state run bank that will:
We will put the power of modern banking to work for the people of Florida, not for Wall Street.
Over the years, interest has been the biggest cost most families have had. Interest paid to the bank means less money for your family. Reducing interest costs can save a family hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Scenario 1 Let’s take a $100,000 mortgage, for example. With a 30-year fixed rate 5.5% mortgage, your monthly payment is $567.79 and you will pay $104,404.40 in interest on that loan.
Scenario 2 With a 2% fixed rate 15-year mortgage, your payment would be $643.51, the total interest would be only $15,831.80 – and the mortgage would be paid 15 years sooner! You would save 88,572.60 in interest. After you’ve paid off your mortgage, if you continue to make monthly payments of $643.51 to a BSF savings account earning 5% interest, at the end of 15 years you will have more than $160,000 after taxes in your account—just by having your mortgage from the Bank of the State of Florida.
In scenario 1, after 30 years of payments, you would own your house. Given scenario 2, after 30 years of payments, you would not only own your house, but also have more than $160,000 in savings.
How could the BSF do this? It’s called “fractional reserve banking,” the same principle all banks use to operate. If you have $100 in reserves, you can loan out $900 or more. That means you collect interest on $900 but you pay interest on only $100 at most. If the bank pays you 2% for your CD and lends it at 5% on 9 times as much money, you can see this is a really good deal – for the bank.
Now our Bank of the State of Florida does not need to be greedy. It is not going to get involved in shenanigans like bundling and selling mortgages, taking out weird insurance policies and general practices that have caused the mess we are in today. When we make a mortgage, that asset remains right on our books and the paperwork is right there on file. We are going to pay good dividends and the highest rates in the market for long term deposits. We are going to loan out 9 times our reserves. And we are going to make billions of dollars for the State Treasury while we save Floridians a trillion dollars—and that trillion dollars becomes many trillions in Florida’s economy.
Let’s say we pay 5% for our $100 and loan out our $900 at 2%. We pay out $5 in interest, and we take in $18 in interest. Can we make money at that? You bet we can.
We could make the $3.6 billion we are short this year on just a couple of million 2% mortgages. We can do even better on 3 – 4% commercial financing and vehicle loans.
And all the money the bank earns goes directly into the State Treasury, to work for Floridians, not to Wall Street.
Where do we get the reserves? The State of Florida has billions invested with Wall Street. 5 or 6% guaranteed looks pretty good these days compared to a 50% decline in the stock market. Look at what long-term bonds are paying, look at CD’s—we will have no problem attracting all the long-term deposits we need to get started, simply by paying good rates.
Now look what happens. With a 2% fixed rate 15-year loan, the buyer has paid off over 11% of the principal within 2 years. That means we have more than enough reserves to make a new mortgage for someone else, without having to pay interest for the reserves! (In comparison, a 5.5% 30-year loan takes 7 years to pay 11% of the principal).
Now some people might think that low interest rates will just raise the price of homes. That would be true if the 2% loan was for 30 years. But the payment on the 2% loan for 15 years is a little bit higher than the payment for 5.5% 30 years, so this tends to hold prices down. It also tends to eliminate speculation that messes up the market every time. As long as prices are stable, we can offer mortgages with low down payments, so homeownership can be as easy as paying rent.
What the Bank of the State of Florida does is transfer hundreds of billions of dollars away from Wall Street directly into the pockets of Floridians by reducing interest costs… and it puts hundreds of billions into the State Treasury, too. We will have stable, fair prices for homes and take 15 years of slavery out of the process of owning a home.
Consumer financing is another area where Wall Street and the big banks are costing us way too much. Banks charge huge interest on credit cards, for example, where the cost of money to the bank is really zero. If a family has $10,000 in credit card debt at 25% interest, that’s over $200 per month in interest alone. At 6%, the monthly interest is only $50. This family could reduce monthly payments by $50 and pay off the debt years sooner. The State earns billions of dollars per year while saving Floridians billions and billions more.
The Bank of the State of Florida will earn billions of dollars per year for the taxpayers of Florida, not Wall Street fat cats. At the same time it will reduce interest costs and save Florida families hundreds of thousands of dollars per family. Who needs that money more? You or Citibank?
The Bank of the State of Florida can handle checking accounts and ATM’s too. The other banks will have to become competitive, and there is no reason why they cannot.
Couldn’t the federal government do the same thing? Actually, the federal government could do even better and they could do it immediately at huge benefit to the U.S. Treasury. Do you think we should wait around for them to do it? We can have this program in effect in Florida within a year, at no cost to the State
Dear Dr Manhattan ,
Take your fucking message elsewhere , this is a thread about a semi-serious movie sequel you tool
Why the hell do we have to listen to somebody with something serious to say, when we all know we are here to hear nothing but UNSERIOUS BULLSHIT?!?!
Will this guy never get it right?!?!?
Who the fuck is going to lend money to Florida at 2%? Greece maybe.
Smokin crack bro.
The movie character or the gold bug from this blog?
here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNun95UvXI