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How The Government "Punished" Wall Street, Explained In 1 Cartoon

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Sad... but true...

 

Source: Alex Cartoon

 

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Wed, 11/12/2014 - 16:58 | 5441586 ebworthen
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Yup, and no one on Wall Street in jail.

Generational genocide by any other name.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:02 | 5441597 Bloppy
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Obama spent six years rewarding his hedgie/Hamptons donor class and now can't figure out why he lost the election.

 

Scathing parody video could signal end of MSNBC:

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:02 | 5441600 TeamDepends
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And the band played on
Ball of confusion
That's what the world is today
Hey Hey!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:04 | 5441609 Bunghole
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Vote for me and I'll set you free

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:38 | 5441718 SmallerGovNow2
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put your avatar on your campaign posters and you'll get lots of votes...

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 01:57 | 5443125 StychoKiller
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"The politicians say 'Mo taxes, will solve everythang!'"

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:04 | 5441603 Bunghole
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You can't jail God's chosen people.

They're special.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:22 | 5441670 CHX
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No, just more equal.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:17 | 5441851 BringOnTheAsteroid
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What must ones state of mind actually be to not only believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence but to believe you have an elevated status with the thing for which there is not a shred of evidence.

That's a special kind of dumb.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:37 | 5441933 Colonel Klink
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If they're special, can we put them on the short school bus and drive it off a cliff?

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 07:39 | 5443364 pgroup
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2 bricks on the gas pedal.

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 00:36 | 5442856 stacking12321
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yes.

however, everyone thinks they are special.

whether it's jews with talk about god's chosen people

or christians with talk about jesus being the only begotten son of god

or muslims with their talk of theirs being the one true faith

it's all the same shit.

and it's funny to see christians and muslims on this site perpetuating the meme about jews being the "chosen people", when they themselves do the same thing, just like everyone else.

denial ain't just a river in egypt!

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:05 | 5441606 Son of Loki
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Jail is only for the Little Peeples. No one on Wall Street or sitting behind a bank desk is a Little Peeple. Even the reporter on the radio this afternoon said not one person has been indicted in the past decade despite rampant fraud ... as he then segwayed into this "new" F/X corruption scandal where "only a small fine was paid."

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:43 | 5442159 blindfaith
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what radio??? you can't mean the joke that NPR has become...meaning NPR sounds like paid-to-speak media like all the rest.  Oh wait, the Koke brothers, I forgot that their tenticles are in NPR too.

Whoever this poor guy is, he will be unemployed tomorrow for speaking about such things off script.

Don't forget, what street did you go out into and carry banners about these crimes and demand justice?  Ask yourself that.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:10 | 5441627 Miffed Microbio...
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This is simply because so few realize they and the government have conspired against the people and proceeded to rape them in stealth. I'd say this were a brilliant achievement but with the sad shape intellectually the American population is in today, hardly a noteworthy achievement.

I hope for a charismatic leader to enlighten those slumbering. My worry is it would more likely be a Hitler vs a Gandhi.

Miffed

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:43 | 5441948 max2205
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Don't count on McCONnell to get it right

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 06:08 | 5443303 tonyw
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any charismatic leader who wes enlightening would not get the MIC big bucks needed to persuade the voteriat who are unfortunately more interested in news about some woman's ass

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:00 | 5441590 Dr. Richard Head
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I was fooled by all of the propaganda on "retirement" once and it will never happen again.  I give the stink eye to our "investment advisor" whenever he comes into our office.  The good news is that the number of people that listen to his drivel is going down each and every time.  The sad news is that the people skipping the "investment advice" are not doing so because they are onto the shit oil salesman, but because they can't afford to buy shit anymore.

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:09 | 5441628 pods
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We met with one once.  I was remarking to my wife how nice the place was.  Lots of mahogany, granite, etc.

Didn't take long before I realized where all that $$ came from.

pods

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:24 | 5441681 WTFUD
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Yes Pods, NICE SHAGPILE OF SORCERY, OLD CHAP.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:21 | 5442238 GoinFawr
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Aye, those types possess an impressive fuckwad of necromancy indeud.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:56 | 5442399 deeply indebted
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Maybe they're rich because they follow their own advice? Hah, I almost wrote that without cracking a smile - just couldn't do it ;-)

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:09 | 5442073 logicalman
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Had some financial dudes in where I work, selling the 'huile de serpent'

I asked them where the money to pay interest came from.

Two totally blank faces stared back.

They gave up on me at that point.

 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:02 | 5441596 CerpherJoe
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Don't blame the regulators. Don't blame the banks.

Blame S&P and Moodys and sue them into non-exsistance. What we're they thinking "AAA" ... ?

Pay for it.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:23 | 5441675 Peter Pan
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Whichever way you look at it, the reality is that the greatest enabler of all this debauchery on Wall Steet, was the very low interest rate policy of the FED. Everything flowed from that fatal decision.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:45 | 5441743 funthea
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Well, that and the fact that Clinton repealed Glass Steagal, giving way to the now famous CDO.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:11 | 5442076 logicalman
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Don't forget Tricky Dicky in 1971.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:35 | 5441703 WTFUD
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Throw in corrupted politicians and a more flexible (after elected) legal system Peter.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:34 | 5441707 TSTM
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Too much truth, not enough funny. 

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:38 | 5441716 kchrisc
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Free Jon Corzine!

An American, not US subject.

 

"I sell my guillotines cheap, as the money is in the blades."

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:42 | 5441733 astoriajoe
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waiting for the customary HH comment.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 17:46 | 5441748 The Man Thursday
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Helping people is one of the worst things that governments can do for them.  Frederick Douglass said it best--though he was talking about race relations, not bank intervention.  Still, it would have been good advice for the Fed, too, over the years.

"I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall."

Perhaps we could call this philosophy Frederick Douglass applied to business and the economic cycle.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:02 | 5441796 WTFUD
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I know friends , even in the face of all this adversity ASK NOT WHAT YOUR . . .

FUCK OFF

OK

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:04 | 5441810 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Zero's.

Toon time Bitchez!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:09 | 5441825 FredFlintstone
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Listen, what do you mean by "Toon time"?

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:01 | 5442034 WTFUD
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My guess is 'CAR' or 'LOONEY' Like DisAbledVet i seldom have a clue what Bangalore is sayinKKKKK but he seems to be having a good time.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 21:54 | 5442583 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen gang.

Toon Time is a little ribbing that I give to the Tylers. ZH use to publish thought provoking articles, sometimes, I know, I know, sometimes it was even their own work.

Ever since Murdock bought The Hedge they have gotten real lazy man.

Instead of provocative articles now it's 24/7 cartoons. So "Toon Time" is me acknowledging the "NEW" owners are a lazy lot just in case if "ORIGINAL" Tylers are reading they might think of buying back the depreciated asset and get it back on course.

Toon Time Bitchez!

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 23:33 | 5442865 Clarabell
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Hey Bangalore, you remind me of someone. Were you ever "Slewy the Pie Rat" as a different personality on ZH a few years ago? Just curious.

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 04:35 | 5442886 stacking12321
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listen, bang-a-whore,

this is the first reasonable, intelligent post from you i've read that makes sense.

i hate to do it, but i'm giving you a +1

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 18:31 | 5441904 dexter_morgan
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Send the fuckers to a liberal paradise!

“A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.”

“And believe it or not, such a place does, indeed, exist.

It’s called prison.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Maricopa County Sheriff

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:13 | 5442096 logicalman
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That makes sense.

US has more people in prison, per capita, than anywhere else on earth.

It's just a beginning. Pretty soon the whole US will be one big prison. Well on the way towards acheving the goal already.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:19 | 5442277 pacu44
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Never understood why you need a job if everything is free....

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:19 | 5442278 pacu44
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Never understood why you need a job if everything is free....

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 20:23 | 5442280 armageddon addahere
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Prison or the army. Join the army if you want to experience the socialist paradise but do it quick, they won't be able to afford the present high living standard when the civilian economy collapses.

Wed, 11/12/2014 - 22:11 | 5442645 ascendant-order
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New here.  Reading Tyler ZH for several years... most awake, 'perspicacious' collection of sans-Matrix, ...a most entertaining and refreshing community.  Thanks.  - 'SK'

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