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We aren't quite sure what it means when it takes close proximity to Suze Orman to make Shelia Bair look properly medicated on television.  Nor are we sure it was the best idea to put the manic "internationally acclaimed personal finance expert" in a series of FDIC confidence booster spots, but it does certainly make for outstanding entertainment during FDIC week here on Zero Hedge.  We highly recommend watching the following spots (or just relying on our adjacent Zero Hedge FDIC InstaSummaries™):

"Shoebox" ("Please, please, stop taking money out of banks on our troubled list on Thursdays.")

"Penny" ("We will never, ever, ever run out of money.  Seriously.  No, really.  Why are you laughing?")

"EDIE" ("$100,000$250,000 may be what Congress intended, but structuring will get you much, much more.")

"Nobody" ("Our reputation as a large and uncaring government entity is totally unfounded.  We love you (long time).")

 

"Escondites" ("For our distinguished Latin American depositors, laundering narcodollars that we would much prefer stay in domestic banks just now is not necessary at the present time.  Also, Suze Orman'sJulie Stav's wardrobe can be purchased at fine retailers in Caracas, Mexico City and Laredo.")

"Mattress" ("For fuck's sake.  We discussed this already.  Stop running the banks, damnit.")

We don't know about you, but we feel more confident already.




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Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:35 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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Wonder if Oprah will back this next?

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:18 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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F**king Oprah. I shouldn't speak ill of the dead. Oh wait...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:15 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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UR,

I heard today she is retiring next year. Bet she know's the SHTF. Wonder if she has a solar doomer ranch in Paraguay next to the Bush's?

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 09:32 | Link to Comment aldousd
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Anthony: Which part of Mexico are you from? 
Inez: Paraguay. 

 

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 10:40 | Link to Comment Orly
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Not retiring.  Going to head her own cable channel (and this is no joke...) the Oprah Women's Network; call letters: OWN.

 

No.  I am not kidding.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:16 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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Wow. If this were fiction, I'd tell you to revise and resubmit because the name was over the top. We have all been OWNed. Thanks for the update.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:59 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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I thought everyone already knew this.

 

The alarming nature of these spots might be a better topic of discussion. (only alarming if you have $$ in a TBTF? Nope, a general panic wipes out healthy local banks)

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 13:02 | Link to Comment JohnKing
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Oprah lost Black Queen Bee status to Michelle Obam so she is going to pedal a bid harder to regain it.

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:40 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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LOL. They are worried about freaking audit the fed bills and defending themselves on the intellectual and philosophical levels while people are destroying their empire by switching to a cash society where thier fake money market and m3 collapses into a black hole the size of  Sheila Bair's asshole.

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:44 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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Agreed, that IS a nice blue blazer and those teeth... talk about bling!

p.s.

Who paid for these damn commercials?!? And why did they turn off ratings and comments, I had something very witty I wanted to share, along with my 1 * rating.

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:46 | Link to Comment Marla Singer
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You. Dingbat.

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:52 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:00 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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=]

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:24 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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You take to feminine discipline very well. Marla has you under her boot and lash.  This is a good thing.

Yes, I'm giving you shit.

Why? Because it's fun.

What else to do while Rome burns?

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:21 | Link to Comment Joe Sixpack
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"What else to do while Rome burns?"

 

Be like Obama and fiddle.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:24 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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So it would seem.

A lil bit on our current Rome:

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/144109/15_signs_american_society_is_co...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 09:21 | Link to Comment Bob
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Thanks for this quote, MC:

Never before has the United States had so many citizens with so little means, little to no income and heavy debt. Debt and costs of living have now shackled U.S. citizens just as they have shackled people throughout the world. The economic hit men have now hit the United States as well and millions of American citizens are now effectively sentenced to a slow death.

Economic Imperial blowback has hit the mainland.

Economic Imperial blowback! Nice term for it.  

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 10:55 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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"What else to do while Rome burns?"

Roast marshmallows and make s'mores?

=]

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:31 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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So, is that like beat me, hurt me, make me write bad checks.

[ring, ring]

Benny, I thought I told you never to call me at work...

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:54 | Link to Comment SV
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You know man, they shut the comments down because they didn't wanna hear any lip from a dead gangsta rapper that's really living with Elvis out in the Texas boonies...

PS: Just because no one has lost a cent doesn't mean that the cents we still possess haven't lost value.  When they can remedy that action, we'll talk about it.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:06 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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Yes, Elvis is doing fine, but we had to get him one of those pilates ball thingies...He's been kickin' it with Biggie, and when the two of 'em get together... well let's just say Costco has no fear here in Texas...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:57 | Link to Comment SV
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True dat - Keep him away from teh Jif and Chiquitas!

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:19 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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Say, weren't those fried?

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 23:52 | Link to Comment Steak
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Damn...Suzie Orman is getting a bailout too?  This is getting out of hand.  At least give me a free toaster.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:35 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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What's left to toast?

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:00 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:36 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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So, if you go in and hold up a bank to get your own money out, is that like, a crime or what? I mean, we're in uncharted territory here kids. Pucker factor is getting up there in the diamond making range.

"And Dagmar, no doubt the ugliest son-of-a-bitch I ever saw my life, was his name."

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:34 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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Yes sir, uncharted for sure. I am wondering what would happen if I went and tried to take out $9,500 today?  I know the branch VP pretty well. Hmmmmm.

 

Pretty soon you won't even be able to get a job doing radio promo! 

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:35 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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Watch the economy now, it's going down.

 

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:28 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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Confidence, it's all just a game to Ben & Timmay.  Confidence and creditability are just about all Ben & Timmay know to try and create. Especially since they appear have no concept of how these elements occur naturally.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:41 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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Yup miles, it's all about confidence, just ask stuart..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fny40Ut_RZA

I would pay $$$$ to hear timmays daily affirmations....

[edit] funny enough this was the only stuart smalley I could find on youtube, seem the good congressman would rather folks forget...can't imagine why...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:42 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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His getting elected was written about in Revelations - I am sure of it. Some kinda end times sign or sumpthin'.

Say, his picture is in the dictionary under 'putz'. Imagine that.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:23 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:24 | Link to Comment Verum
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I would have loved to have been in the marketing meeting for this one.

FDIC Marketing Analyst: "We estimate that women between the ages of 30-60 have about 200 million dollars in shoeboxes throughout the United States.  If we can get that in the banks we can buy another 2 weeks"

Sheila: "Great analysis, call Suze Orman"

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:28 | Link to Comment JohnKing
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SUZE: We have Ben on the line calling from Washingto D.C., Hi Ben!

BEN: Hi Suze, love the show.

SUZE: Tell me boyfriend, what do you want to buy?

BEN: Oh about 1.5 trillion dollars worth of bad loans from my banker friends.

SUZE: You're Approved Benny Boy, you go boyfriend!

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:30 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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HAHAHA!

get on witcha bad self...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 00:41 | Link to Comment dot_bust
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Damn. We just lost another economy to Ditech.com.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:23 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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"We love you (long time)."

You been here over three hour. You leave now and not come back.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 05:52 | Link to Comment Marla Singer
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John Candy!

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:32 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:40 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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Du haβt mich.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:34 | Link to Comment SilverIsKing
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Now we wait for the parody with the Suze Orman look-a-like.  SNL???

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 01:49 | Link to Comment BobPaulson
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If that video doesn't make shoebox sales rocket to the moon, nothing will.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:24 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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Good one.

Home safes have been sold out since fall 2008.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:00 | Link to Comment delacroix
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I would never trust anybody who would let suze orman go on TV in that blazer...

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:09 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:21 | Link to Comment agrotera
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Marla, if you hosted a tv show, it would be like I having weekly monte python back and that would be so very excellent--thank's for the laughs!

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:32 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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Hi Agrotera,

This is so much edgier than Monte Python, otherwise, I agree. The ultimate reality TV show where comedy and horror weave together 24/7. Suze is a clown, the scary kind. What if that was your mother?

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 07:33 | Link to Comment agrotera
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Hi McCreant!

I'm so old that I watched the MP crew when they were a new show...back then, they were edgie, but no doubt that was a LONG time ago, and it's hard to compare with "modern" standards. 

Do you think Suzie O. ever had a mom? ( i am cruel this morning...)

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:08 | Link to Comment tip e. canoe
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actually after watching her for the 1st time ever, i came away convinced that suze stepford is in fact, an android.  everything about her -- her hair, her cheekbones, her painted smile, her outfit -- is just too plastic to be an organic lifeform.

 

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:29 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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Either that or she's from L.A., sometimes it's hard to tell the diff..

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:40 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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She needed the gig to get the 5% surchage together.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:47 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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Could be both of you are right. LA supports a lot of life that is unnatural. She could be a product of successful irrigation into otherwise parched, desolate, undriven, terrain.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 14:12 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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Let's not jump the gun. The 5% botox tax may be out in the final version of the legislation.

Or in the event they actually do something morally correct, it will be raised to 40%.

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:57 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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"parched, desolate, undriven, terrain." Now that's just mean.

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 01:53 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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I know you want to fuck some shit up, don't cha! ZH had to call us folks out about making direct credible threats a lil' while ago. Folkz iz tryin' to behave, but it's just getting outrageous keeping a straight face and playing nice, given all that is going on. 

Suze is a tool for agreeing to do these spots. A traitor really. Not even a real whore, a plastic blow up doll. I bet she tells herself she is serving her country...

 

...up on a platter to bankers.

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:41 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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metal

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 02:28 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 09:59 | Link to Comment John Self
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On the subject of real things that you shouldn't find anywhere except the Onion:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/69003-mccaskill-still-reading-healthcare-bill 

"McCaskill still working toward goal of reading the healthcare bill"

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 14:15 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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Boy she really is breaking ranks. Actually reading a bill.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 03:48 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 10:43 | Link to Comment D.O.D.
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I thought it was Sheila...

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 02:00 | Link to Comment MsCreant
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I thought you would be more sensitive than this post. Lesbians have enough troubles already. Why contribute to negative stereotypes about lesbians by suggesting Suze and Sheila are shaking up? Just cause they are both ugly does not mean they are lesbians, okay? Beautiful lesbians everywhere are oppressed by your remarks here on this forum.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 05:17 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:11 | Link to Comment Gunther
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When do financial institutions claim that they are safe?

It must be bad there.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:11 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:16 | Link to Comment Miyagi_san
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play the video backwards...it says.  "when you got em by the balls...their hearts and minds will follow" 

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:17 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 08:27 | Link to Comment Jim B
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Shoebox, put your fiatsco's in gold or commodities

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 09:10 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 11/24/2009 - 10:33 | Link to Comment crzyhun
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Hard to hold back the ad hominen attacks....so all I will say is consider the source. TV/CNBC, Sue and Shiela have no cred. To whom are these people talking? Commercials for the FDIC, oh my. Get's sillier and sillier.

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 14:17 | Link to Comment snorkeler
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Silly or Surreal???

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:16 | Link to Comment skeptic_ill
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Am I the only one that watched the Penny spot and thought it would send a more powerful message if Suze gave Sheila a full-mouth kiss and slap on the ass.

 

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:59 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:43 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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logic. p.r.e.t.z.e.l. logic

Tue, 11/24/2009 - 12:37 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 13:55 | Link to Comment deadhead
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It is simply quite notable that these commercials had to be produced to begin with.

 

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