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Posts Tagged ‘stock market’

Friday, October 10th, 2008
  • GEORGE W. BUSH SAVES STOCK MARKET: The Dow only dropped 128 points today, which is the New Great Depression equivalent of rising 250 trillion points. Credit is still completely inaccessible, permanently, but what the hell do you people want anyway. [AP]

Watching The Dow Free-Fall Is Too Much Fun

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Dudes, our noses are bleeding and the sky is on fire because GOOD LORD, refreshing the Dow every four seconds as it’s free-falling is like SMOKING CRACK. This is astonishing. Whoa! There go another 30 points! HA HA HA HA HA WHEEE. [Yahoo! Finance]


Markets Continue Their Death Rattle

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

stocks.jpgStocks plummeted today? Dick Cheney must’ve survived something again. MORE »


WP Not Sure How Much You Should be Panicking Right Now

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Pills and DNA will rally the market! - WonketteIt’s nice of the Washington Post to, directly under their article insisting that Fed chief Ben Bernanke calmed Wall Street (subhead: “Bernanke Upbeat As Stocks Rebound”), link to the Milbank column that points out how Ben Bernanke didn’t really say much of anything. Saves us the trouble. MORE »


Black Tuesday to Ensure Third Bush Term

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Escape_from_New_York_menu.gifThe stock market withered and died today after news of Dick Cheney’s survival at the hands of a suicide bomber. This prompts Hotline to ask:

What happens to the presidential race if there’s a recession?

The answer is complicated.

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