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(While I’m stroking it, I’m also saying, please do not question my judgment in agreeing to pose like this. Not that I have to defend myself to you, but I think this is exactly the way America would like to see its Fed chairman, at this time especially. Anyway. Email me for the pics that didn’t make it to print: beardofunderstanding (all one word) at yahoo dot com.)

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Comments (63)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 1:37 PM

    “What is this ‘Stagflation’ you speak of?”

  2. Posted by A-man | January 16, 2008 at 1:38 PM

    “This is my Kramer imitation. Get it?”

  3. Posted by Gene Yuss | January 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM

    You’ve got a little mustard…right about…

  4. Posted by sledgehammer | January 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM

    “let me tell you where my hands are and then i will tell you where yours should be and then we can get started”

  5. Posted by Thorny | January 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM

    Who wants a mustache ride? Greenspan, Greenspan!!

  6. Posted by sledgehammer | January 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM

    “Hmmm….do you think Maria Bartiromo thinks about me when SHE is in the shower?”

  7. Posted by Anon | January 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM

    So 1_2 and girl are getting a hotel room…interesting…

  8. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM

    Which hotel?

  9. Posted by Guy in Chicago | January 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM

    “Uh, so I have to shave the sides for this to qualify as a Prison Pussy?”

  10. Posted by Jim Simons | January 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM

    I see now… Greenspan makes the bubble, Paulson bets on the pop. I wonder if I can get a gig with Elliot.

  11. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 1:54 PM

    THAT is Bess Levin’s hand.

  12. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM

    Bernanke contemplating how he can bed Tanner.

  13. Posted by Finn | January 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM

    “Extra Crispy or Original Recipe. It’s so hard to decide.”

  14. Posted by chad | January 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM

    “Under my beard is another hand stroking another beard.”

  15. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:02 PM

    Ben’s portrait the Mint will use for the planned $1000 Bill that will be in wide circulation, since 100 just isn’t what it used to be. Also provides 10x the fiscal stimulas when dropped from the helicopter.

  16. Posted by CNote | January 16, 2008 at 2:05 PM

    That’s just great, the Fed Chairman trying to pick his nose on the sly…

  17. Posted by Jealous | January 16, 2008 at 2:10 PM

    I was going to enter this contest but I am still laughing at sledgehammer’s caption. I don’t think his can be beat. The caption, that is.

  18. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM

    “Zillion? Jillion? Bajillion! Yeah, Bajillion! They’ll but that. Suckers.

  19. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM

    “Zillion? Jillion? Bajillion! Yeah, Bajillion! They’ll buy that. Suckers.

  20. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM

    “how now Dow cow…?”

  21. Posted by Phil Seltzer | January 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM

    And in this one I’m preventing my jaw from dropping at the realization of how deeply fucked the economy is.

  22. Posted by Chris G. | January 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM

    “Can you guess the number in my head?”

  23. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM

    I am not stroking my beard! I am snapping my fingers to the same tune that the traders make me dance to.

  24. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM

    I am not stroking my beard! I am snapping my fingers to the same tune that the traders make me dance to.

  25. Posted by Anon | January 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM

    Why did Bess take down her Friendster profile with her picture on it?

  26. Posted by JtotheizzA | January 16, 2008 at 2:28 PM

    I seem to recall the difference between suppositories, which I receive daily, and stagflation. Perhaps I need more suppositories?

  27. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 2:31 PM

    the friendster profile with the kiss blowing was fucking hot

  28. Posted by Wyatt | January 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM

    Three things nerdy fuckers need to do to project an aura of authority:
    1. You nee to be wearing suspenders to work. Make sure to put your thumbs under them and nod significantly at everything.
    2. Stroke your beard and use the phrase, “That’s a good question.’ And if some pulls that on you, use: “That IIIIS a good question!”
    3. There are 2 kinds of people:
    a. Mr. ________
    b. Hon (or Miss)

  29. Posted by bear-ringit | January 16, 2008 at 2:44 PM

    Hmmmm….I wonder if the Russians are behind this…

  30. Posted by food4thought | January 16, 2008 at 2:53 PM

    Now, now. What kind of question is that Mrs. Clinton…?? You and Bill know how i LOVE my fried chicken.

  31. Posted by heli | January 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM

    “From helicopters, you say. Hmmmm….”

  32. Posted by R. Paul | January 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM

    “Ron Paul’s win will put me out of a job”

  33. Posted by chad | January 16, 2008 at 3:02 PM

    “We have been getting screwed by the system. The system that forces us guys to like girls. All right? We’re getting pushed into this. What if we just take the girls out of it? We can have our own system, it’s a counter-system. And then, you do things together, you swim, you row, you… boat, you eat, you stink. We can just be guys! You can have sex, you can do it, you know, many guys at a time, but it’s not gay.”

  34. Posted by anon | January 16, 2008 at 3:02 PM

    “Now where did I put my bowtie?”

  35. Posted by ksql | January 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM

    “And today in Economics 101 we are going to discuss inflation and interest rates”

  36. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM

    “Was the poop in 2girls1cup real?”

  37. Posted by wtf | January 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM

    Wow, that is quite a rack…..subprime my ass…..

  38. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | January 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM

    “Hmmm, what could I post that would really WOW the perverts over at youporn.com?”

  39. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:08 PM

    “Was the poop in 2girls1cup real?”

  40. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:10 PM

    i vote for chad @ 2:01. do we get to vote? because i would vote for chad.

  41. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:10 PM

    “Oh, inflation and interest rates are INVERSELY correlated. I though you said POSITIVELY”

  42. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | January 16, 2008 at 3:11 PM

    “Hmmm, what could I post that would really WOW the perverts over at youporn.com?”

  43. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:17 PM

    “where can a man get himself some mikes hard lemonade”

  44. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:19 PM

    “With Valtrex, I can be intimate with my partner without giving him my genital herpes”

  45. Posted by mrpink | January 16, 2008 at 3:23 PM

    “hmmm… I wonder if slimjim will space dock with me after the meeting”

  46. Posted by investorcluzo | January 16, 2008 at 3:29 PM

    so, alan g signed up a third consulting gig…I’ll show his 81 year old a$$, I’m going to get four jobs when I finish with this public servant (whipping boy) bs.

  47. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 3:33 PM

    “Oh. I see. So all that talk of addressing my ‘inflation problems’ was literal? Awwwwkward.”

  48. Posted by wtf | January 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM

    “i said reduce by 50 bps not increase……”

  49. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 4:20 PM

    “one fish, two fist. red fish, blue fish”

  50. Posted by jchow | January 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM

    That Just For Men stuff doesn’t work! All this tv coverage, I must do something about my gray.

  51. Posted by jchow | January 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM

    That Just For Men stuff doesn’t work! All this tv coverage, I must do something about my gray.

  52. Posted by jchow | January 16, 2008 at 4:33 PM

    That Just For Men stuff doesn’t work! All this tv coverage, I must do something about my gray.

  53. Posted by smn | January 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM

    “have you seen my baseball?”

  54. Posted by JP | January 16, 2008 at 5:21 PM

    “What do YOU think I should do with the interest rate?”

  55. Posted by i AM somebody | January 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    “hmmm… I give up. What does ‘deucage’ mean”

  56. Posted by i AM somebody | January 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    “hmmm… I give up. What does ‘deucage’ mean”

  57. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 6:07 PM

    “hmmm… I give up. What does ‘deucage’ mean”

  58. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 6:54 PM

    “Did they find any corn in the Merrill deucage?”

  59. Posted by Anonymous | January 16, 2008 at 7:46 PM

    The (Now) Former Federal Reserve Chairman Admires his hard days work at Merrill, on the 9th floor. His Next Stop: Bear Stearns for a smoke with his good friend Jimmy.

  60. Posted by Rory | January 16, 2008 at 8:03 PM

    “Wanna sniff my fingers?”

  61. Posted by Holla Bitch | January 16, 2008 at 8:04 PM

    - I been had skills, Cristal spills
    Hide bills in Brazil, about a mil to ice grill
    Make it hard to figure me, liquor be, kickin me-
    ** off camera: Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ gripping my nuts**
    Attack with the mac, my left hand spit, right hand,
    Grip on the whip, for the smooth getaway
    Playa haters get away or my lead will spray
    Squeeze off til I’m empty, don’t tempt me
    Only, to hell I send thee, all about the…Benjis
    Holla

  62. Posted by Holla Bitch | January 16, 2008 at 8:05 PM

    - I been had skills, Cristal spills
    Hide bills in Brazil, about a mil to ice grill
    Make it hard to figure me, liquor be, kickin me-
    ** off camera: Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ gripping my nuts**
    Attack with the mac, my left hand spit, right hand,
    Grip on the whip, for the smooth getaway
    Playa haters get away or my lead will spray
    Squeeze off til I’m empty, don’t tempt me
    Only, to hell I send thee, all about the…Benjis
    Holla

  63. Posted by guest | December 3, 2008 at 7:12 PM

    you do look sexy in the pic and sooo wanna do economics now (and you;)
    xx

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