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When "Financial Innovation" Trumps Math

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Is it any wonder we are where we are when no lesser esteemed group than The American Bankers Association Education Foundation offers this sound advice for 'divvying up a dollar'...

 

 

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Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:05 | 4907804 TeamDepends
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That's 120% champ, you can't looze!!!

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:11 | 4907815 kowalli
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Fed will print additional 2 dollars to 10=)

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:26 | 4907850 SWRichmond
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OK but notice, math aside, the bankers say we should spend 30% on staying alive, 10% on keeping poor people alive, and 60% to bankers.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:35 | 4907869 Sudden Debt
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Good point :)

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:54 | 4908063 The Alarmist
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Only 20% leverage?  Basel III really has caused them to dial back on risk.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:00 | 4908252 RaceToTheBottom
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I think this means that they have calculated the inflation to be at 20%.  Quite accurate, I would say.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:22 | 4908311 wee-weed up
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I incorrectly read the title of the article as...

When "Financial Intervention" Trumps Math.

Then I realized...

Yep, that too!

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:37 | 4907870 kowalli
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50-0-50 - it's closer to reallity

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:48 | 4907883 Stupid Donkey
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True, but only if you limit yourself to saving and investing in paper assets instead of physical.

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 01:32 | 4908826 BorisTheBlade
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Generous ain't that.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:34 | 4907866 Sudden Debt
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That's why you need to cut up all your dollar bill before you spend them.

Or even better, you tear off the serial numbers of the bills, spend the bills and go to a bank with the pieces that have the serial numbers. They'll give you a new bill in return for it.
Bur who takes a bill that has a corner torn off it?
Well, that's the part you can fake.
And when the bill is put under a UV lamp, it will test as real.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:45 | 4907877 Da Yooper
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Common core banking fraud

Oy veyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:10 | 4907977 TeamDepends
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When Obama created, amongst others, the banking world, he instigated the finger counting system....

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:18 | 4907818 sixsigma cygnus...
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This was probably done on purpose.  Then the bankers can charge overdraft fees and interest.  Probably an additional 30%...  "See?  Now we're all rich!"

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:26 | 4907849 max2205
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I didn't even double take...it instantly made cents to me

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:03 | 4908261 RaceToTheBottom
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I guess we need to pay the Banksters more if we expect to get the really bright ones......

When you get used to recieving bonus plans for breathing, you don't get the bright one in any industry

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:21 | 4907836 gimli
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Isn't it legal to declare at least 3x the amount that you actually give to charity?

It works for me.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:24 | 4907846 Caviar Emptor
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Allocate 100% to aspirational consumer items.
Why?
Because the rich get richer and those who act rich can sometimes fool poor people into believing they are rich

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:26 | 4907851 AchtungAffen
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But math is science. And we at ZH know exactly how deceitful those pesky scientists are. So, as we believe in Fox News for certain scientific issues, can't see the problem with trusting bankstas here.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:45 | 4907878 SmackDaddy
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They've give Nobel prizes in economics for dumber shit than this

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:28 | 4907854 Waterfallsparkles
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WHAT?  No taxes?

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:29 | 4907858 snr-moment
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That's how my reverse mortgage works.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:30 | 4907860 Caveman93
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Seriously!? LMAO!

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:32 | 4907862 Drummond
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Ahh I see what they did there. They used the imperial version of the cent instead of the metric. 

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:34 | 4907867 Kaiser Sousa
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FUCK ALL MOTHER FUCKING BANKERS and their fucking advice...

DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:35 | 4907868 Sudden Debt
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That 30 cent charity.... They mean taxes right?

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:39 | 4907873 Duke Dog
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Yep, same thing really though - except that is the one portion that is not voluntary - you pay them at the end of a gun.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:39 | 4907874 socalbeach
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Banker math.

.

x+y = 0

(x+y) / (x+y) = 0 / (x+y)

20 * (x+y) / (x+y) = 20 * 0 / (x+y)

100 + 20*(x+y)/(x+y) = 100 + 20*0/(x+y)

100 + 20 = 100 + 0

4*30 = 100.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:57 | 4907903 Peanut Butter E...
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Holy shit that is ingenious! My engineering school never taught me this, damn those elite banker school got some smartass.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:18 | 4907998 Say What Again
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I know this is stating the obvious, but you are dividing by 0 in the second statement.

I only post this for the benefit of TopGear, who might quote things out of context.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:47 | 4908046 socalbeach
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My bad.  I should have started with x+y+1 = 1.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 19:54 | 4908231 USGrant
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But X+Y is still 0.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:33 | 4908329 Tall Tom
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No...You can change the definitions anytime that you want. It is accepted practice as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other US Government agencies do that as well.

 

X + Y can equal anything that the Bankers want.

 

For instance...Haven't you heard that Newton's Laws of Motion were repealed and declared null and void by the US Government retroactive to 9-10-2001?

 

Man are you behind the times...Get with the program.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 22:58 | 4908650 socalbeach
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You don't say.

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 07:22 | 4909015 shovelhead
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I think he's still upset that Ayn Rand used the National Review to housebreak her puppy.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:48 | 4907879 Jayda1850
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According to common core, this would be acceptable if you could explain how $1.20=$1. Shit, we're talking about economists here! Who else could claim that every dollar spent in unemployment benefits is actually $3 because of the "multiplier" effect?

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:47 | 4907882 world_debt_slave
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New Math doesn't need to add up.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:52 | 4907893 savagegoose
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i think if you look at how thwe note is cut up it shows  30% x 3 and a smaller, umm say 10% slice,  i think they meant to says %10 to charity

 

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 20:36 | 4908337 Tall Tom
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That is what you get for thinking. You are to do as your told. Didn't your school learn you any better?

 

(I KNOW THAT IT IS A FUCKING TYPO BY THE FUCKING NEWSPAPER. WE ARE NOT AS FUCKING LAME...AS YOU.)

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 17:53 | 4907894 Peanut Butter E...
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That dollar shows the future inflation value.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:06 | 4907926 Motorhead
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With that fractional reserve banking shit, the bankers lost track of basic math a long time ago.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:23 | 4908006 eddiebe
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And do all of that making $ 7.50 an hour.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:30 | 4908016 Sick
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This is for the .oo1% that can save and invest 60% then claim 30% deduction for charity which was actually 10%

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:32 | 4908020 Sick
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Actually and investing is really charity to the bankers and wall street to steal.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:36 | 4908027 kchrisc
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"The American Bankers Association Education Foundation"

"Esteemed"?! LOL

Should be the "Rothschild Banksters Syndicate and Propaganda Foundation."

 

"I'm starting the 'Head Trimming Foundation'."

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 18:46 | 4908047 Spungo
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Just print the last 20%

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 22:38 | 4908603 Joebloinvestor
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Fractionalized dollar, where no one knows who is on the short end of that 20%.

Sun, 06/29/2014 - 23:38 | 4908725 fishwharf
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It's a prank that was published 90 days late.

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 07:12 | 4908998 AdvancingTime
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 An interesting book that I picked up at a garage sale years ago gives an eye opening tour through the twist and turns of math abuse and innumeracy, this is before we even begin to look at outright fraud. The book "200% of nothing" by A. K. Dewney goes into how percentage pumping and irrational ratios can be used to make and reinforce a point that has little validity.

Sadly this practice has become far to common in modern society. Aided by super fast modern methods of communication facts are seldom checked, "if you saw it on the internet" it has to be true. The article below delves into how figures are manipulated and how the truth can quickly be buried by those who choose to mislead us.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/200-of-nothing.html

Mon, 06/30/2014 - 07:13 | 4909000 Bemused Observer
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Prank or not, it's a clever visual.

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