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POMO For The Rest Of Us - A Zero Hedge Initiative

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Now that talk of NEW QE is once again all the rage, and with the FOMC's June meeting in less than a month, and since there is nothing that anyone can do, short of a revolution to prevent this (with half the country obese, and the other half hypnotized by the Kardashians or on disability, that ain't happening), it only makes sense to join them since we can't beat them. Which is why we are officially launching the "POMO For The Rest Of Us" initiative. Beginning today, we will collate readers' ideas based on twitter posts with the #POMOList hashtag, which we naturally suggest be addressed to the @FederalReserve twitter account as we wouldn't want the good central planners at the Fed to be unaware of what the general population demands be monetized in the next imminent iteration of an utterly idiotic activity which does absolutely the same as every year before, while hoping for a different result.

Below we have incorporated a widget that will track in real time and capture all tweets addressing the @FederalReserve and/or discussing the #POMOList subject. Once we have collected a large and creative enough list, we will submit it to the Fed (we may even retain Morgan Stanley's services to bring "legitimacy" to our venture), because as the recent FaceBook IPO debacle has shown, the central planners are quite concerned that the retail investor should also have some skin in the manipulated game. We believe it makes sense to extend this to Quantitative Easing as well.

So while the Fed has a green light to dedicate about $800 billion of the roughly $1 trillion or so in new money to be printed any second, it is only fair that $200 billion, or roughly the Facebook retail allocation, be dedicated to the demands of the general public. Please use this chance to be heard on twitter, and to tell the Fed just what assets you would like Brian Sack's replacement to be buying with reckless abandon in this country's closing hours.

 

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Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:07 | 2456606 FOC 1183
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Festivus!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:12 | 2456629 MillionDollarBonus_
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 One of the groups that is most to blame for the mess this country is in, is small businesses. Every year, thousands of these 'small businesses' fail to comply with government regulations or to file their tax returns, which costs the government tens of thousands of man-hours trying to enforce penalties and, in cases of extreme incompetence, shut them down completely. Small businesses are statistically far more likely to violate regulations than larger more reputable corporations, and government officials are forced to waste time chasing them down, when they are supposed to be running the country. It's getting to the point where we need to seriously question whether "small businesses" are worth the hassle, and whether we can't just rely on larger corporations to provide the goods and services we need.

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:13 | 2456637 Q.E.easy
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For a while I was worried you were loosing it. ZH seems to be so hard on trolls

I stand corrected.

One of your best posts yet!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:25 | 2456662 nope-1004
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Covert QE been going on for a while now.  Dr. Benocide is FOS and a liar.  Transparent Fed, my ass.

 If he truly were acting in the best interest of the masses, he'd come clean and spill the beans about how he's propping up insolvent Wall Street casinos.  But he's got no guts, just like all the other "professionals" ruining this country.

 

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:36 | 2456716 kito
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covert qe? care to share specifics? in light of commodity/asset deflation happening, im eager to know what you know....

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:48 | 2456752 I think I need ...
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How much longer is zero hedge and it users even going to be on the internet? The blackout (computer virus) is scheduled for july i bettcha we ALL got it.............

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:04 | 2456800 NotApplicable
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Ummmm... no.

Worst case scenario analogy: Imagine everyone lost their phone books, and there's no directory assistance that works either. You can still call anyone, you just have to know the number.

So, what do you do? Write the number down!

Instead of typing www.zerohedge.com, you type in 178.208.48.13 (or 178.208.48.14)

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:45 | 2457084 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Damn you Zero Hedge.  Instead of passively waiting for the Federal Reserve Bank to make a move, be active! 

BUY SILVER!!!!!!!!!!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:46 | 2457429 markmotive
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How about monetizing birth rates in the PIIGS countries?

Peak births anyone?

http://www.planbeconomics.com/2012/05/23/peak-spain-italy-ireland-greece...

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 22:12 | 2457503 MeelionDollerBogus
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Man, we can already have more local DNS servers which are on more stable addresses. No one's doing it that I know of but a p2p network just for DNS addresses that are likely reliable would also mean we'd keep up with frequent smash-downs of network connections & not yet be stuck with only typing in IP addresses.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:13 | 2456812 CPL
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If you noticed how well the Apple update went for the timemachine piece of shit, they managed to only get a handful of units out of all their products.  Why?

 

Configuration management.  Apple acts like a complete facists when it comes to their product, yet, their users get curious, make hacked changes, subtle adjustments...doesn't take much to knee cap a deployment.

 

Now if we are talking about the Windows universe...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...it's next to impossible to patch corporate environments in any meaningful way let alone hold the line on configuration management with dipshit managers adding value.  It's completely laughable when it comes to home users...

 

Then there is linux/Unix...literally build to be completely different from user to user, hardware to hardware.  The variations are infinite and require heavy user intervention to make sure things are patched.  Auto patch linux at your own peril, remember this shit is well built, but it's all built in basements and for the love of the code/creation.

 

Unlike movies, pulling a stunt like that across billions...yes billions of subnets.  Then the trillions of private subnets.  Then Darkweb which is nothing but MAC addresses...pity the fool that does some demented power cycle WOL packet.  The power across the planet in moments, along with every army, government, intelligence agency.  You think those portable power generators are independant...fuck no, they need a ground and heat controls so they don't blow up.  I've never seen someone sitting in a diesel generator.  The fibre drops out the side, pop it into the frame, configure the MAC and remotely monitor.  Big kill switch would turn them off easily...and the monitoring stations attached to it.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:26 | 2456868 bobola
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Open HZ thread...read it....scroll down to comments section....scroll down....scroll down...see MDB's post and click the red arrow....scroll down....

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:23 | 2456987 Michael
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MDB is mostly right about small business. Small business provides lousy pay and lousy benefits to their employees and makes the population of the USA increasingly poorer. I know, I work for a small business.

The real problem with small business is however, the war on them by the federal government and foreign wage arbitrage imposed on them by the federal government through trade treaties passed by the federal government and don't get me started on the shakedowns on small business by state and local thugs.

On-topic

How about the Federal Reserve just deposit $100,000 non-withdrawable cash in every citizens savings account and individuals are allowed to spend the interest income at 3%, un-restricted.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:29 | 2457029 Joe The Plumber
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You have just about killed the euro. I may become a believer in you

Michael flaps his mouth in a brazilian jungle and positive feedback loops cause a financial hurricane in europe

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:52 | 2457103 Michael
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I do what I can.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:54 | 2457046 Rynak
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Well "the environment has you".

You see, i work with small business as a contractor constantly, and i could write an entire book about constantly repeated mistakes, most of them being rooted in blind egocentric central decisions.....

...and yet, if i were to compare this to your run of the mill corporation represented at the stockmarket.... heh, would i rather work for an agent with "typically human" tendencies, and being pushed to the edge by a ponzi environment (which radicalizes their trends even more.... the more tiny little bit their profits become, the more desperate they grap to their established personal views).... or would i rather work for an anonymous psychopathic through and through machine?

As a contractor as well as a halfway smart (read: in nowadays massmedia-stupidification age, 1%) consumer.... this decision is a no brainer... i'd any day rather attempt a relationship with a desperate human, than a sociophatic AI.

Of course, i myself similarily "egocentric" just do so, to find the few sane ones, filter them out, and build longterm relationships with them.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 22:32 | 2457541 Prometheus418
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"How much longer is zero hedge and it users even going to be on the internet? The blackout (computer virus) is scheduled for july i bettcha we ALL got it............."

Well. have fun with that.

For my own part, I've got a hedge for that, too.  I'd like to see a "civil servant" take me off the web- be a shame to see ZH go, but there's plenty of room to strech my legs elsewhere, and there's not a virus around that I can't track and kill in less than an hour.

Get yourself a TOR browser, and learn how to use it.

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 07:07 | 2458268 firstdivision
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You gave my comp herpes!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:50 | 2456762 CPL
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You kill the Canadian dollar.  Easiest way to disguise a commodity price collapse, change the shape of the currency it trades from.  It's not the petrol/metal/ore/lumber/food currency for nothing.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:28 | 2456864 fockewulf190
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What the US needs is a LEADER who understands the concept of simplification. Junk the whole BS tax system, with it's thousands upon thousands of rules (many of which change every year), Bust the whole system down to a flat tax, for corperations, for small biz, for the individual. Streamline the entire IRS to a lean and mean machine who only has
to deal with a single digit fraction of today's work load. Make paying taxes a childs game. Eliminate 99% of deductions and keep 1% for those who truly can't take care of themselves such as the handicapped. Business, and especially small businesses, would thrive.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:36 | 2457051 Impotent_Smurf
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Thats a good start, but I'd go even further. Eliminate the FED and IRS, utilize the US Treasury to print money for interest. Use the interest to fund the government. The whole system is backward. The worthless middle men that do nothing but complicate the money system to their benefit need to go, in a big way.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:39 | 2457066 UP Forester
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You want simplification?

How about 50, or 100 people in charge of smaller areas, with a loose coalition of geographical or demographical areas, each charged with doing what's best for the people that elected them, and a true delegate or two that meet in time of emergency to decide if action should be taken?

Enough of the one-system-to-rule-them-all bullshit.  It hasn't worked very well.

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 16:25 | 2460094 CPL
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Like a city state.  I'm digging the ideas in the thread so far.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 22:10 | 2457495 samwell
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why would a Talmudic, Zionist Jew come clean about propping up wall st.  He hates the goy as he has been tought by his beloved Tamud and mother country Israel.  Goy are cattle to them and meant to be lied to, exploited, and murdered for this is forgiven as they are "God's" chosen people.  Never mind that there god is Satan and Mammon.  Bernake is doing exactly what he believes in and what Talmudic Zionist Jews want him to do.  He is not propping up wall st. casinos; he is looting and has looted the wealth of the American middle class for it is the American Middle class which is the true enemy and the greatest threat to these Zionist Jew bankers on wall st. which control the money system which robs the rest of us of our wealth on a daily basis. 

Facebook is the obvious "face" of the looting that takes place but look at all the looting that has taken place with taxes and monetary inflation, not to mention the looting of our privacy via the FBI, TSA, NSA etc which are all made possible by the Jew orchestrated and controlled central bank.  We are paying for the "priviledge" of being spied upon by our own government.  This country will be gone soon unless we stop these extremist Talmudic Jews!@

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:23 | 2456666 Fluffybunny
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Nothing beats his Facebook IPO post.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:13 | 2456832 Coke and Hookers
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haha that was truly a great one.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:43 | 2456915 Diet Coke and F...
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"Get me in at ANY price!" LMAO

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:48 | 2456940 Bizaro World
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All right all right, so you guys hyped up MDB's faceplant comments enough to the point I had to search and scroll through them....verdict = worth the effort.  Pretty epic.

 

Needed that laugh after watching the recent trouncing of PMs.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:54 | 2457105 BeetleBailey
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He has lost it. That, and a ton of money on Facebook stock - soon to be more.

I disagree. This post confirms his utter douchebaggery and big government utopian maniacal madness.

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:19 | 2456651 Brindle702
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-1 for content

+1 for trolling like a boss

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:23 | 2456670 Fox-Scully
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Have you ever gone fishing?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:30 | 2456692 Acet
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This is some of the best MDB-branded troll juice yet ...

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:34 | 2456709 ITrustMyGut
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Outstanding MDB...

especially in light of today's stellar PPT effort! *golf clap*

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:45 | 2456745 1100-TACTICAL-12
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I've been Zucked but never POMO'ed. Who know's it might be good.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:36 | 2456712 americanspirit
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And then there's all those Cadillac Escalades etc with "Farm Vehicle" license plates. Closing that egregious loophole ought to bring in a few bucks - maybe a fraud penalty for all previous years of running the scam. Collecting woud be simple - just add it to the next registration fee.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:37 | 2456717 Pairadimes
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Four more years of this and the only place you will be able to see a small business is in the Smithsonian.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:38 | 2456723 CPL
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That is an awesome meme.

 

"Small business are not worth the hassle,  we can rely on larger corporations to provide the goods and services we need with the assistance of our elected officials."

 

God that's so nauseating that it would act as a nice plant.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:08 | 2456815 NotApplicable
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Now, replace "larger corporations" with "responsible government" and you might just find yourself as the next Demopublicancrat nominee (not to mention invites to all the cool crony parties in the Hamptons).

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:43 | 2456738 Pairadimes
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Your troll-fu is much improved, grasshopper.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:47 | 2456749 1100-TACTICAL-12
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Monsanto comes to mind. thanks anyway.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:58 | 2456784 Bill D. Cat
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This is a slippery slope you're on ....... next you'll blame voters .

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:07 | 2456810 metaStable
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And FB is going to 600 next year!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:09 | 2456816 NotApplicable
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In what units?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:14 | 2456836 metaStable
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Euros, of course!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:36 | 2456896 Mr. Lucky
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Then dollars.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:42 | 2457074 UP Forester
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Then tulips.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:15 | 2456839 ATM
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Small busines is statistically far more likely to violate regulations? WTF are you talking about??

Perception bias is a funny thing. You know that big corps simply fight off govt because they have deeper pockets. Small guys can't fight so they simply give in to claims fromt he govt that they did something wrong.

Since I know that govt has no more clue than you do what is right and what is wrong because who the fuck could actually decipher the 100s of thousands of pages of rules, regulations and tax law any way.

Nobody knows the law, especially the government! 

The real problem is the size of the big companies is growing precisely because government wants them to. THE GOVERNMENT LEECHES LOVE BIG FAT WHALES FROM WHICH THEY CAN SUCK BLOOD AND THE WHALES LOVE THE PROTECTION THAT THE MILLIONS OF LEECES PROVIDE.

It's a symbiotic relationship.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:43 | 2457075 Ned Zeppelin
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MDB is one of the best satiric posters we have - he's like Colbert-sih.

Smile - you've been fooled.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:23 | 2456856 New_Meat
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mdb--duuude, u forgot to do the </zarc off> thingie, otw, folks will actually think that u meen this.

- Ned

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:23 | 2456858 Bizaro World
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MDB, wow, best crony post I've seen to date...you've got the touch.  You really should place "\sarc" next to your posts though, that way people know it is just for humor. Also like your new pic of the gold standard dollar sign...though it gives you away a bit.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:24 | 2456860 Kayman
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Fuck yeah MDB.  Imagine all the unnecessary sqandering of scarce resources that these lazy, dishonest, unproductive small business types are consuming.  We could free up millions, no billions of dollars of resources that could be given to large corporations, which in turn could invest in productive countries like China.

Better yet, let's give those resources to the Gubmint and Gubmint employees can consume them at their leisure.

Thanks for your innovative ideas.  You're the Man.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:44 | 2456917 prodigious_idea
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You're just so huggable (around the neck).

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:26 | 2457024 lunaticfringe
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I gotta down arrow MDB. I mean the truth is...he has written a whole lot of troll shit...and I can't just get over it that easy. History, ya know. I suppose even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:41 | 2457072 SamuelMaverick
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MDB, you are without a doubt the funniest sarcastic pretend troll in the history of ZeroHedge.  I am doing a glass of J Walker straight up in salute.  Cheers to the continuing slow motion train wreck of sovereign debt and the epic fail of the unsustainable do gooder welfare states.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:44 | 2457080 Ned Zeppelin
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If you're confused when you read a MDB post, as many seem to be, just pretend it is Opposite Day, and you'll get it.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:49 | 2457096 _SILENCER
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"government officials"

 

A Stockholm Syndrome term of endearment if I've ever heard one.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 20:44 | 2457218 Pejorative Requiem
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Still laughing......... love the implications of the up/down vote counts. Who loves ya baby? (man I miss Telly).

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 20:55 | 2457245 MeelionDollerBogus
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LOL! 66 UP ARROWS

hahahaha

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:07 | 2457281 Jake88
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You're really sick dude if this is your idea of humor. If you're serious you're a goddamned scumbag asshole.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:26 | 2457352 disabledvet
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so which is the problem then? the business or the taxes? i say "let's get rid of all the businesses and see what happens next"....

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:31 | 2457374 piceridu
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Is there an app that allows more than one green arrow? I'll buy it just for MDB's posts.

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 07:10 | 2458270 firstdivision
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I didn't realize the IRS ran the country.  Thanks for this enlightening post.  I was under the impression the Executive and Legislative branches ran the country, but shows that you know more than all of my past teachers combined.

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 14:20 | 2459631 MeelionDollerBogus
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pfffft

92!!

92 UP ARROWS

you SLAY me

supa-STAHHHHHHHH

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 22:18 | 2457512 Dragonsgrace
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Who are you kidding here.  This is too easy.  What we need to monitize is bankers and other assorted finanical middlemen/people.  Yes, that is the whole problem.

 I agree we have way too many small businesses.  I mean WTF who needs to make anything or provide needed goods and services.  That can all be provided by large corporations who have "economies of scale."

 But, the real solution for all of us is MORE banksters.  We simply do not have enough of them getting into all the transactions everywhere.  One idea is to pass a federal law that you have to use a bank/finanical instutution for ALL business deals of any kind.  All the money laundering laws could be suspended that would help for sure.  That way we would need to have MORE bankers.  And, we could regulate any transaction that did not use a bank or other finanical intermediary.  After all why do anything at all if there is not at least one middle man/woman to you know take a slice and not provide any value to the deal at all.  

I mean really, all the smart people on here from Wall Street and you people could not figure this out.  WOW....

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:07 | 2456608 YesWeKahn
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FedBroke.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:08 | 2456609 Aziz
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I have a roll of toilet paper that I think should be worth at least $2 million. I will use the money to raise #aggregatedemand.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:20 | 2456656 ISEEIT
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More T.P. ='s more poop right?

Brilliant Keynesian "thoughts".

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:03 | 2456975 Coke and Hookers
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I think I may have an idea. The paper issued by the fed is basically the monetization of future tax revenue - without specifying which taxes are being monetized. Let's call it 'general future tax revenue monetization'.

I suggest a new type of monetization; the 'specific future tax monetization'. It goes like this: The Government adds a specific tax (on rainwater use or for access to nature or something like that) and the revenue for that specific tax is calculated one century ahead. Paper is issued for each type of specific tax, each issue covering the total 100 year revenue plus future tax increases in accordance with future inflation to be monetized now.

This way we can monetize the future not once (generally) but twice (generally and specifically). Who wouldn't want to buy Rainwater bonds or Breathing-Air bonds?

We could even monetize future wars and the asset stripping of the vanquished nation. Iran bonds, Sudan bonds, Syria bonds.

And everytime we need more paper, we just add another future revenue stream in the form of a new future tax or a future war.

I see a huge untapped reservoir of possible monitization there and endless opportunities for growth and prosperity.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:10 | 2456613 SilverDoctors
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# Silver POMO for Blythe?
# 500 million ounces of paper silver dumped on the CRIMEX in 1 hour today!

http://www.silverdoctors.com/were-500-million-ounces-of-paper-silver-jus...

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:09 | 2456614 spastic_colon
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o/t sorry HP up 10% after hours cuz they're laying off 27,000 people......so bullish right?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:55 | 2456779 STP
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Yep it's bullish!  Yay for the shareholders!!!   That's 27K more people on the unemployment rolls for 99 weeks and after that, they can transition to disability or supplemental SSI forever!

But seriously, it never fails to amaze me that massive layoffs are good, epecially when 70% of our GDP is us buying 'stuff'.  No workee, no buyee!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:09 | 2456616 css1971
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Bollocks. Now I have to go get a twitter account. and bloody tweet stuff.

 

The shame.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:16 | 2456641 KandiRaverHipster
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same same!  i've been holding out on the tweet game for a very long time.  i think this is the signal to get in The Game.  and to also get a smart phone.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:25 | 2456673 Salt
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I'm waiting for the IPO.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:28 | 2456682 WTFx10
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Smart Phones are for dumb sheeple.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:31 | 2456695 KandiRaverHipster
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ZH-Ville?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:11 | 2456825 NotApplicable
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And instead of crops, we get to beat up banksters.

Where do I click to join?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:54 | 2456954 KandiRaverHipster
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sort of.  yes, during the early levels you'll be using melee weapons.  but as you progress, you'll find caches of weapons in abandoned national guard APCs.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:45 | 2456746 CPL
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Sign up with complete nonsense for an email address from here.

 

guerrillamail.com

 

It'll make an email address that you can use for ten minutes while you fill in forms.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:47 | 2456935 KandiRaverHipster
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no no, you see i actually want to keep the twitter account.  how am i supposed to tweet at Anon?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:10 | 2456806 chdwlch1
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Same here...or if someone could just Retweet (?) for me that I would like to request that the Fed buy the US a new Congress! And please buy back our country from the various Sovereign Wealth Funds around the world. And a beer.  Thanks!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:11 | 2456626 Conrad Murray
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Every household in America should receive 4 battle rifles, a sniper rifle, and 10,000 rounds of ammo for each.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:23 | 2456671 lemonobrien
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yeah, that would be cool.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:59 | 2456775 Gene Parmesan
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I recommend seppuku for the Fed.

 

That would be cool.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:36 | 2456894 Kayman
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And auction off Bernanke's second.  That would cover the deficit.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 20:41 | 2457210 Hulk
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I already have all of that stuff...

What I really need now is a Gumby, a Pokey and a Mrs Beasley doll !!!

(given enough time, it was my experience that all Gumby's became Pokey's)

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:14 | 2456634 maxw3st
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I think perhaps an Olympic high dive platform at the top of the reflecting pool on the Capital mall would be nice. If construction is contracted through the appropriate Congressional committees and overseen by the Treasury department and the project is carried out by DOD, a healthy several 10s of billions of dollars could be invested on the nation's behalf. #POMOlist

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:21 | 2456657 FinalCollapse
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I will drain that swamp before they start jumping.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:13 | 2456636 goldencross10
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Best. Hashtag. Ever. #FedValentines is a close one though.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:14 | 2456638 blunderdog
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"I wanna own a automobile when I get out!"

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:16 | 2456643 fuu
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Damn and here I am with no debt at all to monetize.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:35 | 2456710 cossack55
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terrorist

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:18 | 2456649 potlatch
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We should all be given a re-usable coupon, called a "whimpy" which affords each and every citizen  a hamburger today.  Payment for said burger will occur on a Tueday to be determined in the future, by the Federal government.  This coupon, and the gurantee of said future tuesday payment, is vested with the full faith and credit of the United States, and thus is legal tender, and can be used as a speculative instrument by the man on the street, too.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:29 | 2456687 Joe The Plumber
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And since it is technically a zero interest bearer bond it could circulate like money and help juice the economy

m

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:41 | 2456731 potlatch
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A coupon for one measly hamburger a day, surely to be paid some future Tuesday by our kindly government?  Is that too much to ask?  One hamburger a day in good faith?  Surely, your heart cannot be that cold.

 

Oh, and someone told me it should be "Wimpy"

 

I'm making my buttons "Wimpy Is Now"

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:04 | 2456799 Agent P
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"Wimpy"..."EBT"...whatever name makes you happy.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:48 | 2457092 Ned Zeppelin
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Then, leverage up those Burger Promises with CDS side bets.  Create entire generations of synthetic CDOs filled with CDSs on Burger Promises. 

Gotta think like a Harvard MBA! Money from nothing, and checks for free. (yes, checks)

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:21 | 2456653 lizzy36
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Boys and girls #pomolist works best if you have or purchase an asset that has decreased by 50% (say as you pull away from the car lot) and the fed buys the credit at par.

The fed can't buy you a pony directly cause that would be bad.....or some such shit. It can only buy the debt you incur buying the asset yourself. 

So be creative...the fed isn't that particular about what is buys. Just know the fed likes to monetize debt at par. 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:31 | 2456699 Brindle702
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So, that would be: car loans, mortgages, student loans, credit card debt ... FB stock on margin ...

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:44 | 2456741 Al Huxley
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Excellent point.  That's the secret that makes the whole magical system work.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:44 | 2456743 slewie the pi-rat
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lizzy, i'm sorry you didn't get the pony from the chairsanta, last christmas...

...if there's anything i can do...

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:51 | 2456763 Al Huxley
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Actually, I've been thinking about this and the way to get the pony is

1) Form a corporation

2) Loan the corporation a stack of money to buy the pony.  Make sure the loan is a discount, or zero coupon, with say 100 years to maturity.

3) Have the corporation buy the pony

4) Sell the loan to the FED at par

Net - you have a corporation, that owns a pony, and all your original capital.  In 100 years the corporation pays the loan back to the FED.  Everybody wins.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:17 | 2456996 Brindle702
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1) Form a corporation - USA Health Insurance Corp.

2) Loan the corporation a stack of money to buy the pony.  Make sure the loan is a discount, or zero coupon, with say 100 years to maturity. - Money to USA H.I.C. to pay for gastric bypasses, cosmetic procedures, cancer treatments, etc.

3) Have the corporation buy the pony - USA H.I.C. owns the procedures and has the insureds paying premiums to them for the rest of their lives

4) Sell the loan to the FED at par

 

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 05:54 | 2458195 BorisTheBlade
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Nah, unless you flip pony at least 100,000 of times every time involving heavy leverage, issue AAA unborn-pony-backed debt obligations and sell them to 'sophisticated' investors, amass at least $100 bln in debt and endanger entire financial system if you go under, you won't do it. Make sure you are too big to fail, for one pony you actually might need to serve a sentence.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:51 | 2456766 Tyler Durden
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The Bank of Japan buys ETFs and REITs outright, which is simply a template of what is coming, so don't worry: there is no set guideline.

In fact, the Fed will be happy to accommodate anyone and everyone.

Go to town.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:57 | 2456783 lizzy36
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Wow, Bernanke really is Glinda: The Good Witch of Capital Markets

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:31 | 2456845 vast-dom
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So when the BoJ and Fed buy triple index short ETFs then.....uh..........hey Tyler what exactly is coming and which town will that be?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:32 | 2456879 malikai
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Can I post my soul as colladeral on a bond issue?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:41 | 2456909 Kayman
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Any asset, no matter how tiny, will do.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:12 | 2457307 Papasmurf
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You can if you're a bankers.  In fact, it would be a requirement.

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 04:51 | 2458161 BorisTheBlade
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Wow, time to incorporate REIT to invest into prime seashore developments next to Fukushima.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:03 | 2456801 css1971
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Ponies eat hay and produce fertiliser. It's good for the economy.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:42 | 2456911 Kayman
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The Fed, Wallstreet, and Washington produce fertilizer and it doesn't help the economy.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:04 | 2456981 Brindle702
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I can't seem to piece the thought together yet, but wouldn't there be a health care / health insurance scheme that could be monetized in this fashion?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:35 | 2457050 fuu
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So how about silver at $50 and gold at $2000. We should be made whole.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:53 | 2457100 Ned Zeppelin
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Actually, I'm thinking Asset Purchases by the Fed that operate very much like yard sales in suburbia; well, that are in fact yard sales, with black Suburbans patrolling the streets and buying assets laid out on our front lawns.  

"I'll give you $10,000 for that used Big Wheel."

"SURE DUDE here you go. . . . "  

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:21 | 2456658 Igiveup
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MDB.  You are a freaking genius.  I read your comment without looking at the name and pegged you immediately.  You have a talent.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:23 | 2456665 FinalCollapse
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#pornolist - Dear Fed, I want new Bentley. I will monetize it. Will you buy my debt?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:23 | 2456667 Igiveup
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Have them buy bounced checks.  We can all do that and they could easily be sold at par.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:25 | 2456674 urbanelf
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How about the Fed pays me a billion for some useless shit I found in my parents' garage?  That should keep asset prices up.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:41 | 2456733 slewie the pi-rat
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i want them to pay me 3% to borrow my first $mil$

i've been saying the same thing forevah!

give us the green [light] to straighten this shit out, and just stand back, banskers!

greeeen light!  we want it for thePeople!

when do we want it, BiCheZ?

we want it NOW!!!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:26 | 2456675 FinalCollapse
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#pomolist Free vibrators for all Banksta! 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:44 | 2456919 Kayman
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Special vibrators with harpoon ends.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:26 | 2456679 Joe The Plumber
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I can draw eyes and a nose above my belly button and can make my belly button look like it is talking

If they will monetize that I promise to spend every last cent they give me in a wild orgy of consumption

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:28 | 2456683 davinci7_gis
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I am going to find out what company makes the ink for the US dollar and start buying the SHIT out of its stock!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:32 | 2456883 Cupid Stunt
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Sun Chemical Corp.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:29 | 2456685 adr
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I just don't get it anymore. Why are the QE rumors shooting stocks to the stratosphere again?

You have a scramble by the algo banks to buy stocks because they will be given more money to buy the same stocks again?

Who outside the same banks who get the Fed ejaculate will actually buy the same stocks?

 

One guy has a rock. He tells another guy he bought it for $100.

The other guy says, "I want that rock."

The first guy says, "Ask that government guy over there. He'll give you $150 to buy my rock."

Other guy, "Why would I pay you $150 for the rock."

First guy, "What do you care, he'll just give you the money."

Other guy, "True, I just want the rock. Ok I'll get the $150."

First Guy, "Sold."

First Guy, "Wait, I want my rock back. I got $200 from the government guy."

Second Guy, "but I just got the rock."

First Guy, "Wouldn't you rather have $200. It's not like you actually got attached to the rock yet."

Second Guy, "Hell $200 is double what you paid, ok."

Second guy, "Actually I want the rock, I got $300 from the government guy, will you take it?"

First guy, "I like my rock, but $300 is a lot of money, ok I'll take it."

First guy, "No I like rocks more than dollars, I got $500 from the government guy."

and so on and so on. Nobody stops to actually check the real value of the rock.

 

That my friends is now the story of the stock market. A valueless rock is driven to insane value just because two guys never have to worry about coming up with the money to pay for it. Money becomes worthless and an item that actually has no value becomes an attractive investment.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:41 | 2456734 Diet Coke and F...
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Now THAT is price discovery!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:48 | 2456939 Kayman
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Welcome to the recovery. When was the last time you had a drink ?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:49 | 2456942 prodigious_idea
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When you consider that the majority of stock purchases are done by people using the money of others, it's easy to see how somebody might just go along to get along.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:29 | 2456688 Poor Grogman
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Another shovel ready project or is it reverse central planning?

I cant decide which politically correct pidgeon hole to put this into??

Dammit it must be original thinking, we cant have that in the socialist workers paradise of the west....

Workers of the west unite! all you stand to lose is your US denominated savings!

 

 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:30 | 2456690 Zola
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One of the groups that is most to blame for the mess this country is in, is Sheeples. Every year, thousands of these Sheeples fail to comply with intelligence minimas or to file their mentally unfit returns, which costs the country tens of thousands of man-hours trying to undo the damage from their extreme ignorance, unfortunately not being able shut them down completely.

Sheeples are statistically far more likely to violate common sense than more informed citizens, and government officials are pleased to pander to them, when they are supposed to be running the country.

It's getting to the point where we need to seriously question whether "Sheeples" are worth having in America, and whether we can't just rely on ZH troll to provide the stupidity in the voting booth.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:59 | 2456786 STP
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The sheeples are created on the taxpayer dime!  It has to be a good thing to have a huge population of low-IQ, ESL breeders that have way more kids than necessary, because the state will happily pay for everything (as long as you vote for us, we'll keep the freebies coming!)

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:52 | 2456949 Kayman
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Look at who is teaching kids in the public school system and abandon all hope.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:30 | 2456693 slewie the pi-rat
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will zH twitter on back to: rPaul4prez?

but this is ok for twits imo and i think it may be healthy for them [which seems to be of some concern, here]...

bong-lifting, anyone?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:53 | 2456759 ThirdWorldDude
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puff-puff pass, buddy...

 

I'm European (not a bank though), but if I have a chance to be a part of #POMOlist, I'd ask @FederalReserve to monetize my loan for 1mn condoms (Benny-boy gets 10% of whatever I get from the ECB for the wrappers).

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:54 | 2456953 Kayman
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Singing in the rain, I'm singing in the rain, boot, boot. Where's Bernanke's house again ?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:57 | 2456961 slewie the pi-rat
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a-round the corner!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:54 | 2456955 slewie the pi-rat
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whaddya mean IF? <puff>

you are down fror the "loan" but take it to the nannies and tell them it is for aids edu and prevention [aka: whoever you fuk next X 106], and they will GIVE you the money, dude

i'm still bonna hold out for the 3% too, though;  call me a fool, but i do NOT take any debt lightly, unless it is other people's!  which is why i advise you take your hard-on to the nannies and "see what happens" <">

OT~if there were ever an "alliance more entangling" than this debt-bullshit, pls advise

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:31 | 2456694 davinci7_gis
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Gosh, all the US needs to do is give every American citizen $10k and we would be out of this recession in about 6 months!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:48 | 2456754 reader2010
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I will spend it on Ameican bear and hookers right away to stimulate. 

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:00 | 2456792 willien1derland
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I admire your willingness to take one for the team! Well done!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:05 | 2456805 Joe The Plumber
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Bear and hookers

Who are you? Daniel Boone?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:26 | 2456867 blunderdog
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He meant a fat hairy gay guy.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 19:32 | 2457040 Joe The Plumber
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Ok big laugh on that one

But u r still a commie

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 21:44 | 2457420 blunderdog
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I get ya.  FWIW, the commies hate me too.  They say I don't believe in the cause.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:31 | 2456698 cheesewizz
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Your to funny TD. I just have one question for the FEd. Can POMO's get married in North Carolina?

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 17:34 | 2456707 urbanelf
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Some of my best friends are POMOs.

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 18:29 | 2456876 zorba THE GREEK
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i wasn't always a POMO, I got sucked into it.

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