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spatlind Special user still moving 863 Posts 
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So the Irish Government have guaranteed all bank deposits to the value of 500 billion Euros, or 700 billion Dollars or so, as a gift to the Irish regulated banks to ensure their liquidity. Except we've only got 4 million citizens...
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Josh Riel Inner circle of hell 1995 Posts
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Considering the math we magicians have been offering up lately here, I'd say that adds up to a trillion dollars each person. That is awesome.
Magic is doing improbable things with odd items that, under normal circumstances, would be unnessecary and quite often undesirable.
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spatlind Special user still moving 863 Posts
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Quadrillion actually, but close enough Josh, as magicians go...
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts
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I feel bad for those poor banks. FEED THE BANKS!
Maybe we could start a collection on our own? Magicians helping banks.
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts
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Since when do magicians have money?
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts
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Silver prices are up. Scrap those Sherwoods. Think about the poor banks.
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts
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I don't even have silver fillings:(
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Josh Riel Inner circle of hell 1995 Posts
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I can put you in touch with a good dentist who can give you lead fillings.
Magic is doing improbable things with odd items that, under normal circumstances, would be unnessecary and quite often undesirable.
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts
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Oh good, my insurance company might go bankrupt, that would help!
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts
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SAVE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES! Next we can bail out the phone and cable companies. Who else (that paid their CEOs too much) can we bail out?
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Marvello Inner circle It's amazing how little I can say in 1612 Posts
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Quote: hmm - good question! Well, we already bailed out the airline industry a few times as well as the S&L's... how about General Motors?On 2008-10-11 07:11, Josh the Superfluous wrote:
Never criticize someone else until you have walked a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away from them and you will have their shoes.
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts
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When quantity replaces quality, good is accepted as great, and mediocrity is the norm ... what else can one expect?
This is also a symptom of those who want to be like everyone else. The phrase the Hebrew's use is "[don't] covet thy neighbor", or as comic Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything, where would you put it?" When the nations met in their closed door summits politicians decided to put all of the money into one pot and blur the line with transaction fees at every trade. Companies that once made widgets started trading paper (easy money). And that created an accounting practice which relied on dishonest inventory practices in order to keep driving up the prices. Enron was a harbinger of what was to come. The politicians in the USA push through legislation which was to lax up credit markets in order to be "more like the European banking system" or as the dumb masses bought the hook from pundits, "A Global Economy." I think you can piece the rest together from here.
POOF!
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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On 2008-10-11 07:55, Marvello wrote: How about Ford now too? I have bought mega stock in both because I believe a bail out is eminant LOL. (It only took about 200 bucks to get "mega stock" LOL.)
Danny Doyle
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On 2008-10-11 07:55, Marvello wrote: You (your government) gave the auto companies $25B bailout / loan package just a couple of weeks ago. Try to keep up. 
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre48q2......funding/ http://seekingalpha.com/article/97269-to......o-makers
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Marvello Inner circle It's amazing how little I can say in 1612 Posts
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On 2008-10-11 14:25, balducci wrote: yeah but they said they needed $100 billion, so I don't know how they will manage to get by on ONLY $25 billion! poor babies
Never criticize someone else until you have walked a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away from them and you will have their shoes.
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts
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Come on guys, don't tell me you didn't see this bureaucratic disaster in the making. In relying on the same people who caused this disaster to solve the problem, when they won't even admit a fraction of their fault, we can only blame ourselves. After all, the buck starts here.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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Yea I was wondering exactly how giving the guys who caused the problem more money was going to fix the problem in the first place.
Danny Doyle
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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How did we suddenly move into a world of free enterprise profits, with socialized responsibilities? It boggles the mind.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21245 Posts
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John, I can think of no better way to have put that. Brevity is the soul of wit, and you have demonstrated this concept perfectly!
I would add the words "and wisdom" in the case of your quote.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts
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Hey, where's that guy who linked us to the "world bank film" (money changers)? I think we owe him kudos for a big fat "he told us so."
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