This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

The US Economy In Two Pictures

Tyler Durden's picture




 

From Initial Public Offering...

 

... to Depression-era food lines...

 

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:17 | 5725904 PartysOver
PartysOver's picture

Free Shit!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:18 | 5725912 idea_hamster
idea_hamster's picture

Line up for table scraps.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:26 | 5725956 bob_stl
bob_stl's picture

iz line for toilet paper.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:30 | 5725990 ACP
ACP's picture

Useful idiots vote socialists leaders into office to get free shit.

Socialist leaders increase taxes on Wall St to pay for free shit.

Useful idiots get EBT card.

Useful idiots use EBT card to buy shit to enrich Wall St.

Useful idiots complain about how Wall St is making so much money.

 

...and so on and so forth.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:37 | 5726024 pods
pods's picture

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:40 | 5726037 hedgeless_horseman
hedgeless_horseman's picture

 

 

I can make a hell of a meal in two hours.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:43 | 5726050 Comte de Saint ...
Comte de Saint Germain's picture

According to the Constitution, all individuals born (and naturalized) within the territories in which the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA exerts an effective jurisdiction are cataloged as less than human beings (even lower animals are vested with natural and legal rights); these people automatically lose their quality of natural persons either by birth or naturalization; instead, they become Financial Instruments until the day they cease to exist - real or virtual documents representing a legal agreement involving some sort of monetary value.

Ironically, Americans still believe in the paradigm that they are "free," when the reality is the opposite and the Constitution implicitly defines them as subservients: Article I, Section 2, third paragraph, first sentence (the legal scope of TheThree-Fifths Compromise went beyond the issue of slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment only nullified such ancient practice per se, must not its ulterior purpose).

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:55 | 5726108 pods
pods's picture

I would take issue that the constitution as adopted provided for this relationship. It was the 14th amendment trust that created what is known as the "corporate or national citizen."

pods

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:59 | 5726129 Skateboarder
Skateboarder's picture

Trudat. The 14th made everyone chattel is what it did. Bringing the status of the slave up to the "free man" (not slaves)? Nuh-uh, it was the other the other way around.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:35 | 5726327 ml8ml8
ml8ml8's picture

Those lines are emblembatic of their stock valuation:  there's not enough float to go around.  Demand > supply, so the price is artificially inflated--just like those lines.  Those lines will go away, and so will the overvaluation in their price.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:53 | 5726417 TruxtonSpangler
TruxtonSpangler's picture

This is an excellent analysis of the 14th http://pacinlaw.us/error/

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:36 | 5726328 ml8ml8
ml8ml8's picture

Those lines are emblembatic of their stock valuation:  there's not enough float to go around.  Demand > supply, so the price is artificially inflated--just like those lines.  Those lines will go away, and so will the overvaluation in their price.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:00 | 5726450 DutchR
DutchR's picture

Born free

Paper prison

 

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:46 | 5726065 Skateboarder
Skateboarder's picture

Two hours of cooking time is like the business class of making meals (at least for a male who has to go to work hehe). Economy = 30 mins. to 1 hour.

The real question to ask is - what percentages of those burgers' advertised components are a) not beef, and b) cellulose.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:59 | 5726134 SickDollar
SickDollar's picture

More like US stupidity in two pictures

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:01 | 5726460 DutchR
DutchR's picture

Make believe on a bun

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:53 | 5726094 SickDollar
SickDollar's picture

Royal Sheep burger

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:22 | 5726266 TerminalDebt
TerminalDebt's picture

That would be NZ. In France it's Royal Frog burger with cheese.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 16:42 | 5726895 Clowns on Acid
Clowns on Acid's picture

Sacre bleu !

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 17:51 | 5727214 FireBrander
FireBrander's picture

enlighten me dumbass...

Record number of 'Socialist' EBT Carriers...Right?

So how the fuck did Republicans just take control of Congress and why is Obama's approval rating lower than cost of a blowjob from a herpes scabbed hookers pie hole?

Following your logic, shouldn't 90% of the government be democrats by now?

 

PS> Do you plan to be a moron your entire life?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 22:54 | 5727912 StychoKiller
StychoKiller's picture

Do all the guys on this site a favor and post a link to a larger picture of yer avatar!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 19:04 | 5727389 AGuy
AGuy's picture

"Socialist leaders increase taxes on Wall St to pay for free shit."

Not Quite: You mean "Socialist leaders increase taxes on the middle and  working classes to pay for free shit, and give wall street no-bid contracts with ZIRP loans to make the free shit"

"Useful idiots get EBT card."

The people getting and use EBT cards are not stupid, They are getting something for nothing. Its the Middle class that's stupid for voting in the socialists. It works this way. The Rich pay for elections. The Politicans make promises to the poor and middle class. When they get in office, The payoff the rich, and shaft the middle class.

 

 

 

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:29 | 5725989 ZH Snob
ZH Snob's picture

no.  they are lined up to put in their applications.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:12 | 5726211 Crazy Canuck
Crazy Canuck's picture

All holding their newly minted MBAs and other worthless pieces of "higher-education" paper

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:44 | 5726375 Pool Shark
Pool Shark's picture

 

 

Hey, where's all the snow?

I thought they had the 5th Biggest Blizzard on Record just a few days ago????

Oh, maybe it's Glo-bull Warming...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:54 | 5726070 eatthebanksters
eatthebanksters's picture

Obama and his ilk had two choices regarding the economy when he was elected.  The first was to tighten our belt and let the economy re-adjust.  But, if he followed that path, he and all his fellow progressives would have been voted out of office in 2012.  He chose to pretend he was working on the economy and put his team to work driving down rates to raise asset prices. The benficiaries of those policies were obviously the folks who had assets. The idea of Summers, Bernanke and Yellen has been to create massive new wealth and then redistribute it...by doing this he would be the hero of the middle and lower classes and his party...it was supposed to keep his party in power.  

The problem is it didn't work, at least not for Main Street.  Its clear that the divide between have's and have not's is at a historical high.  It's also clear that his give-away policies don't work.  Most people in this country want jobs, not handouts. 

Lastly inflated asset prices have put the world in a bind.  When stock prices are dependent on printing money, when negative yields in bonds become attractive, and when home prices reinflate to a point where people can no longer come up with a down payment or afford the monthly payments  it takes to buy a home, the economy is not running normally.  We don't know when this ends badly, we only know it will end badly.  I project it will end badly on Obama's watch.  

Unrest around the world is focused on the US, deservedly or not.  Currency wars will destroy weaker countries which will ally with the likes of Russia or China and a tectonic shift in the power srtucture of the world will take place and the US will be perceived as the bad guy...this is because Obama and his cronies want to be Oligarchs in a socialist system free of competition and they really care not about the little guy or the rest of the world. The way for them to their goal is ruin our free market economy that was once based upon competition and the strength of small business success. Progressives support massive government, labor unions, big business, and the elimination of competition that keeps markets strong.

Real estate sales are taking a nose dive right now.  In my region January sales are down over 40% from last year (and my region is one of the strongest in the country).  Lower rates, less PMI and reduced downpayment requirements will do very little to boost sales.  I fear that this will be the first step of a new recession (depression?)  

Obama must now live in a different world with the House and Senate in Republican hands.  His grand scheme has just run into a road block called reality.  I fully expect Republicans to crater to some of his demands as the situation gets worse (in my mind all but the fiscal conservatives are just as bad as progressives). He can't keep spending and pretending things are fine while racking up debt, the Repubs won't let it happen.  I think time is quickly running out....

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:22 | 5726257 BlindMonkey
BlindMonkey's picture

Who is a fiscal conservative out of 535? I can't really find any who's opinions matter.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:45 | 5726384 richsob
richsob's picture

Excellent post.  A breath of fresh spring air on a website that has really gone to hell over the past year with too much outlandish BS thrown out there as "commentary". 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:58 | 5726684 Romney Wordsworth
Romney Wordsworth's picture

Well, what do you expect when you kick out fonzannoon, slewie, francis, LongSoupLine, Trav7777, & Co?

 

I'll tell you what you're left with.

 

You're left with the commentary from 'folks' who REPORTED them.

 

The Narrator: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. (Camera pans to Narrator)This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace.(Camera switches to the convicted man) This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.

Chancellor:Wordsworth, Romney, Field Investigation Finding Obsolescence. Do you know why you're here Mr.Wordsworth?

Wordsworth: Yes sir...

Chancellor: I'd ask you to speak up a little if you will, Mr.Wordsworth.

Wordsworth: Yes, sir, I know why I'm here....

Chancellor: You've been under investigation, Mr.Wordsworth for the mandatory period of 1 year and 11 months, you are found to be obsolete. The purpose of this hearing to make a finding in the matter and make a sentence accordingly. Do you understand that?

Wordsworth: I understand that.

Chancellor: Your occupation Mr.Wordsworth?

Wordsworth: A librarian, sir....

(Crowd jeers confusingly)

Chancellor: (Puzzled and angrily).....A what!?

Wordsworth: A librarian, sir...

Chancellor: (To Secretary) Has this man had counsel?

Secretary: Yes,sir, he has.

Chancellor: Has he been given orientation?

Secretary:Yes, sir.

(As this goes on, Wordsworth steps back into the darkness, as if knowing his fate)

Chancellor: Mr.Wordsworth, I've been told you've been given couns(notices he's out of the light)...STEP BACK INTO THE LIGHT, MR.WORDSWORTH!

(Wordsworth steps back into the light)

Chancellor: I'm told you've been given Counsel,Mr. Wordsworth. but I'm still not sure, in my own mind, you understand the nature of this hearing. The field investigators in your sector have classified you as obsolete, this finding carries with it serious implications. Do you understand that, Mr.Wordsworth?

(Wordsworth nods)

Chancellor:I'd ask you again, your occupation Mr.Wordsworth?

Wordsworth: I AM a librarian, that IS my occupation, that is my PROFESSION. If you people choose to call that obsolete...

Secretary: Request clarification of the term...

Chancellor: Yes...Mr.Wordsworth, the term "You people," you make reference to The State?

Wordsworth: I make reference to The State.

Chancellor: And you persist in declaring your occupation as being that of a librarian. Is that correct?

Wordsworth: Yes, sir, that's correct.

Chancellor: A librarian. Having to do...with books.

Wordsworth:(Proudly) Yes sir...books!

Chancellor: Since there are no more books, Mr.Wordsworth, there are no more libraries, and ,of course, as it follows , there is very little call for the services of a librarian. Case in point: A minister. A minister would tell us that his function is that of preaching the word of God. And since it follows that since The State has proven that there is no God, that would make the function of a minister quite academic as well....

Wordsworth: There IS a God!!

(Crowd jeers in shock. The chancellor looks angry)

Chancellor: You are in error, Wordsworth. There is NO GOD! (To the crowd) The STATE HAS PROVEN THAT THERE IS NO GOD!!

Wordworth: You cannot erase God, with an edict!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 22:52 | 5727904 Rakshas
Rakshas's picture

........decay claims us all eventually........

....but really how does one get kicked out of ZH if one does not really want to leave?? god knows the multiple personalties of the various Mr Kitty or what the hell ever he goes by now have plagued this site for long long time.....no I think not I think anyone worth hearing from leaves when the stupidity becomes too overpowering and it just isn't worth the bother any longer .....

.......is it possible the rot really set in with the entrance of ABC media and the ensuing barriers no name calling and all that??  Fight club....... it's hard to smile when you're busy picking chicklets out of your shit.....

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:21 | 5725923 Zirpedge
Zirpedge's picture

Where is the entertainment? Cue Ferris Bueler rendition of twist and shout (in the wind muppets) ...phawump phawump wump wump..Shak it up baby now

 

..Encore..Danke Shake..Darlin Danke Shake

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:29 | 5725978 MonetaryApostate
MonetaryApostate's picture

What do you expect from the CHEAPASSES eh? :D

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:21 | 5725925 alphamentalist
alphamentalist's picture

yes, but also indicative of how bad comp is nowadays.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:23 | 5725935 maskone909
maskone909's picture

thats actually the line for a free autographed cramer coffee mug

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:39 | 5726040 Temporalist
Temporalist's picture

Booyaaahhh!!!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:42 | 5726054 Frank N. Beans
Frank N. Beans's picture

actually I think I can see Jim Cramer in the food line.  I heard he's not doing so well.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 16:02 | 5726721 Hippocratic Oaf
Hippocratic Oaf's picture

Cramer is doing well, The Street.......not so much.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:09 | 5726196 steveharless
steveharless's picture

Id love to have one of those free mugs....I d use it for skeet shooting

www.ViewLasVegasRealEstate.com

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:23 | 5725937 Belrev
Belrev's picture

Some unbelievable Ukraine war footage that they will not show on TV.
THIS IS NOT A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
THIS IS REAL. GRAPHIC WARNING 18+ with English subtitles.

http://youtu.be/3TZ9Q18HKlQ

THANK USA FOR THAT!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:12 | 5726209 will ling
will ling's picture

william kristol,et al, need to be made to see this.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:12 | 5726210 PresidentCamacho
PresidentCamacho's picture

Mandatory Viewing for all armchair generals that think economic warfare is a joke.
This is what comes next for those who fall prey to the bankers.

Why not here?

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:26 | 5726277 sandman.s
sandman.s's picture

Wow, this whole thing makes me sick.  Puts it in perspective when you see ol grandmas yelling at guys and cursing them out. This is a video you will NEVER see on western media.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:27 | 5726288 joego1
joego1's picture

Congress and the President should all have to watch that. They should be ashamed. All of this sucks.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:27 | 5726289 joego1
joego1's picture

Congress and the President should all have to watch that. They should be ashamed. All of this sucks.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 20:51 | 5727626 HowdyDoody
HowdyDoody's picture

The Novorosians are routing the Nazis. One artillery group was caught by surprise and fled leaving everything behind, including targeting maps. Their aiming points were civilian infrastructure showing they have been deliberately attacking civilians.

Today they shelled one of the areas where people collect humanitarian aid. Colonel Cassad has a link to imagery. It makes the video above look tame. It shows the real horror inflicted on civilians. It is seriously grim stuff. The text is Russian but the images speak for themselves. This is what Obomber, Hitlery, Nuland, McCain must really love to watch.

Click on the red text link on the line immediately after the red 18+ text 

The first image is only the start of serious 18+

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2019886.html

 

Edit: WTF is going on? Preview shows Russian text, but Save shows question marks.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:22 | 5725938 FrankieGoesToHo...
FrankieGoesToHollywood's picture

"Free Shit!"

You are refering to the first pic of the IPO, right?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:28 | 5725972 PartysOver
PartysOver's picture

LOL.  Guess both qualify.  Banksters got theirs first.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:23 | 5725943 mtl4
mtl4's picture

Those people probably just came back from food sampling at Costco.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:27 | 5725974 Burt Gummer
Burt Gummer's picture

I wonder what the lines will look like at the precious metals dealers come hyperinflation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yloaBw80fV4

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:32 | 5726004 Shizzmoney
Shizzmoney's picture

It's actually not free; that IPO drains more from the incomes from working Americans than a hooker at a blowbang

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:57 | 5726120 City_Of_Champyinz
City_Of_Champyinz's picture

Obamaburgers!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:19 | 5725908 FrankieGoesToHo...
FrankieGoesToHollywood's picture

I actually counted three.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:20 | 5725911 Element
Element's picture

Did those guys get bussed in from Georgetown uni?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:20 | 5725913 Tsar Pointless
Tsar Pointless's picture

Shit Shak.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:20 | 5725929 Ms. Erable
Ms. Erable's picture

I do see a huge shit sandwich in both pics.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:23 | 5725928 Dr. Engali
Dr. Engali's picture

I thought SNAP was supposed to cover up that uglyness so we didn't have to look at it. Somebody chase those vagrants off the streets. We don't want anybody thinking there's something wrong in Obamaville.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:24 | 5725939 oklaboy
oklaboy's picture

LOOK FREE College!!!!!!!!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:44 | 5726062 N2OJoe
N2OJoe's picture

I got Ays in muh free collage!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:24 | 5725940 Edward Morbius
Edward Morbius's picture

PPT huffing and puffing...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:28 | 5725981 maskone909
maskone909's picture

yeah its getting quite rediculous.  going to be a riot if market tanks before potus terms up.  im not talking laugh riot either.  well actually i will be LMAO'ing

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:25 | 5725946 SparticusUK
SparticusUK's picture

MOAR!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:24 | 5725949 Kaiser Sousa
Kaiser Sousa's picture

i hate this fucking country...

morons...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:20 | 5726247 Falling Down
Falling Down's picture

Fuck this joint.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:24 | 5725950 Smegley Wanxalot
Smegley Wanxalot's picture

Don't understand people waiting in line for junk food, free or not.  I gave up doing that shit in college.  I barely have patience in "fine" restaurants for their dilly dallying bullshit.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:25 | 5725960 Fun Facts
Fun Facts's picture

no demand for cheeseburgers out that way ?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:31 | 5725961 hotrod
hotrod's picture

I thought we stopped Job Fairs as they were too depressing.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:26 | 5725965 El Vaquero
El Vaquero's picture

It's no worse than when a Krispy Kreme opened up in Albuquerque for the first time.  Not only did people camp out in the parking lot for a day or two, but APD's pork chopper landed and one of the cops went in to get donuts.  While the pork chopper thing was funny relatively harmless as far as APD's antics go, it just shows the insanity of the consumer mentality in the US. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:25 | 5726285 BlindMonkey
BlindMonkey's picture

Did the APD cop gun anyone down while trying to cut the line?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:52 | 5726413 El Vaquero
El Vaquero's picture

Nope.  They were out in the pork chopper anyway, and decided to waste however much in tax donky dollars they wasted by setting it down and taking off again.  Probably not that much, at least not when compared to the costs of shooting, killing and maiming people. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:28 | 5725975 Soul Glow
Soul Glow's picture

The shareholders are proud to be giving away overpriced shit!  And I speak of their overvalued shares.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:29 | 5725977 Kaiser Sousa
Kaiser Sousa's picture

u know i actually like making my own fucking burgers...

making the patty's and seasoning them the way i like...

standing outside by the grill wiith a little cooler packed with High Lifes...

thinkin about how the world is all fucked up...

how it was a saviour to opt out of the debt and death paradigm and buy Silver...

being thankful for my collective that im capable of caring for without having to slave at some fucking bullshit job...

DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:40 | 5726045 El Vaquero
El Vaquero's picture

Do you have access to a welder?  If so, go get some angle iron and some expanded metal, and make grill that sits 8" to 12" off the ground.  Then you can cook over an open wood fire.  It's even better than standing around a grill, but it does take some practice.  Your temperature control consists of throwing sticks on the coals, and shifting things around with a pester stick. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 22:40 | 5727887 Kobe Beef
Kobe Beef's picture

You know, I used to like grilling my own too. But everytime I turned up the kerosene, my steel grill would collapse into its own footprint at freefall speed.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:27 | 5725979 besnook
besnook's picture

....and there are people here who think the millenials will save us from the beast. there is no hope but there will be a lot of change.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:34 | 5726011 NOZZLE
NOZZLE's picture

Long Cud Chewing Utility Grade Cows.  

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:40 | 5726033 Temporalist
Temporalist's picture

Incidentally it's a fried fucking burger.  Who can't make a fried burger?  At least BurgerKing was once flamebroiled...don't know anymore.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:40 | 5726036 disabledvet
disabledvet's picture

"Consequences."

 

Oh, yeah...gotta love a sanctions regime.

 

No blowback here!

 

Should get real fun when Union Pacific starts using diesel engines from Bellarusia and Boeing uses jet engines from Russia or Ukraine.

 

Nice backorders on the rd-180 and rd-181.

 

ORB has gone through the roof this month.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:41 | 5726044 papaswamp
papaswamp's picture

Hey have to keep that healthcare spending a poppin. No better way than pumping Americans full of bloat. Thought they outlawed that shit in NYC?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:46 | 5726066 overmedicatedun...
overmedicatedundersexed's picture

will they give U a berger today for payment next thursday?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 13:54 | 5726103 SickDollar
SickDollar's picture

burger joint selling its stock at $40 a  stock, boy you have to be a sleep to not question this stupidity

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:56 | 5726429 Falconsixone
Falconsixone's picture

You are in violation....You will buy this stock and smile

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:02 | 5726135 hoist the bs flag
hoist the bs flag's picture

why is this a "depression era" foodline? it's muppet food on the cheap from those photos. on a side note: I showed this to another pleb in the office and he started screaming "I would short that shit!" My mother makes better burgers than that horse meat they are selling"...fuckin priceless

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:10 | 5726193 GFORCE
GFORCE's picture

There seems to be a rush to deliver IPOs of crap companies. Exit strategy is the trade of 2015.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:21 | 5726264 Joe A
Joe A's picture

What is it with this big flag at the NYSE? I mean you have a neo-classical building and then they drape this huge US flag on it. Tasteless really. Or is it to remind the traders who they need to screw?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:32 | 5726310 SickDollar
SickDollar's picture

nope it is to give the illusion to the sheeple

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:47 | 5726388 ThisIsBob
ThisIsBob's picture

It is not uncommon for scoundrels to hide behind the flag.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:50 | 5726409 Falconsixone
Falconsixone's picture

Go kill for it and fell taller.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 17:07 | 5727020 CitizenPete
CitizenPete's picture

America is the Market and the Market is America. Buy Mor Chicken, I meant Buy Mo Stawks.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:35 | 5726321 Hagen
Hagen's picture

Jews in top, goyes in bottom.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:38 | 5726341 Q-Q-Q
Q-Q-Q's picture

The poor are being joined by the middle class, burgers are the new fine dining.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:40 | 5726352 Falconsixone
Falconsixone's picture

Ahh...Dreams of a cash business

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:49 | 5726395 Falconsixone
Falconsixone's picture

The McD remake 7.change name.02 .... the golden buns take the green dick up their ass then put it in your mouth

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:49 | 5726396 eddiebe
eddiebe's picture

Pray that our handlers don't fuck things up so badly that the lines for anything related to food will be multiples of the one above. My fear is that that is exactly what they are planning. Why wouldn't they, the sheep keep lining up to get fleeced without much more than the occasional bleat. 

How they must despise us.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:04 | 5726464 Falconsixone
Falconsixone's picture

Dewey Cheatem and Howe say it's really good.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:19 | 5726535 EemieMeanieMinieMoe
EemieMeanieMinieMoe's picture

As does Ben Dover & C. Howett Fields.....lol

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:05 | 5726468 Gab Timov
Gab Timov's picture

overvalue meal

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:40 | 5726644 B190769Sonny
B190769Sonny's picture

The USA is 25% of the global economy.  There is a delicate ploy being played by Russia, China, India, Middle East, etc to get rid of the dollar as the world reserve currency.  A slow collapse.   Anything sudden would throw the earth off its axis.  The USA with $18T in debt is only a few years away from self destruction.  Worldwide, with the advancement of technology, there is simply to much capacity and not enough consumption.  So, the ploy is to reduce US capacity and have some of that capacity soaked up by other players.  How will that happen? War?  Naw...nobody can afford a war.   Monetary Policy?  Naw...that doesn't work.   Deflation...?   Bingo.  Deflation drives the dollar out of the Bretton Woods world currency status.  So now you have to ask yourself with all the doubt that exists about the US economy why is Janet Yellen so hellbent on raising rates?  Think Deflation !!!  Yellen and Putin are having an affair.  We'd better learn to live with less.     

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:48 | 5726664 homebody
homebody's picture

Must be an old photo - I do not see everyone on Obummer phones.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 16:34 | 5726872 Clowns on Acid
Clowns on Acid's picture

There is nothng behind those Gothic pillars but an empty floor ocupied by CNBC reporters and bright lights. Its all really happening out in a square concrete warehouse in NJ with servers and network switches, and nobody around.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 16:35 | 5726878 Clowns on Acid
Clowns on Acid's picture

I'll give you a paper fiat dollar tomorrow if you give me a hamburger today.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 17:06 | 5727007 CitizenPete
CitizenPete's picture

Don't be so Wimpy. he he

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 16:36 | 5726884 Clowns on Acid
Clowns on Acid's picture

By the way... all those events are TAXABLE !

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 18:11 | 5727268 mattgallis
mattgallis's picture

No Amazon coverage today Tyler?  Guess their operating margins expanded

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 19:44 | 5732935 Saturn_ls1
Saturn_ls1's picture

Herd mentality alive and well @ NYSE

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!