The homeless guy who hangs around the street outside of DealBreaker Global Headquarters asking for cigarettes suddenly has opinions about the global financial meltdown. As we handed him a cancer stick he decided to instruct us about how to keep our money safe.
"What you gotta do is take your money out the banks and you gotta put it into China. Get yourself some yen," he said.
They don't ring a bell at the bottom but this strikes us as something akin to the shoeshine boy with stock tips for Joe Kennedy.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:03PM
I thought Fuld quit smoking.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:05PM
lovely
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:06PM
You sure it wasn't Jimmy Cayne...and was it cigaweed?
Wu Tang FInancial should hire homeboy...
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:07PM
Its a bottom when you are standing in line with that guy at shelter.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:08PM
Blame the auditors?
http://www.retheauditors.com/2008/09/hello-big-4-are-you-out-there.html
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:09PM
I thought Obama didn't smoke in public.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:09PM
find me some chinese yen!
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:09PM
I'm starting a soup kitchen business!
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:11PM
蛋黄酱
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:11PM
didn't realize the staff of dealbreaker was the 2008 incarnation of joe kennedy.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:14PM
@6
Fuck you racist!
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:17PM
@6,11 - Does Obama even smoke?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:18PM
"Randolph, Randolph!"
"What is it Mortimer? I'm still not talking to you"
"Randolph, look....We're back!"
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:19PM
@13...quote of the week!
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:21PM
#9 egg yolk sauce? is it suppose to be funny?
Posted by NG , Sep 17, 2008 5:21PM
anyone trading energy with Constellation Energy Group?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:22PM
@6 McCain would smoke too IF HE COULD LIFT HIS ARMS ABOVE HIS SHOULDERS.
See what happens when your parents are related.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:23PM
@11 What do you mean "you people"?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:23PM
@11, you are actually the Racist. You assumed he was saying Obama was homeless because he is black. Not considering that it could be because he is liberal, socialist, tree hugging, or from Chicago.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:25PM
@17:
Mccain got that way in a POW camp. Anyway, you don't need to lift you arms above your shoulders to smoke.
Try to make sense next time
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:25PM
Your film-maker date called the top 6 months early back in Feb 07. Should we expect 6 more months of recession?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:26PM
i think it's chinese yuan - jim rogers's big on it~ maybe it's our jim taking a breaker from being rich
Posted by EconAnalyst , Sep 17, 2008 5:27PM
All time high of iShares Dow Jones US Financial Svc. (Public, NYSE:IYG) was February 20, 2007.
Pretty damn close Carney.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:30PM
@17
How do you smoke without lifting your arms? Do you bend over or just get a little Vietnamese boy to help you?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:31PM
u guys just marked history
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:31PM
Fuck! NOOOOOO!!!! I wanted this downtrend to last longer
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:32PM
@ 18: awesomeness.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:32PM
@18 what do YOU mean "you people"?!
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:36PM
Seriously. Dick Fuld. WTF? where is he?
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:42PM
Personally I like the the Trading Places quote -(Mortimer Duke) "Fuck him! Now, you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!"
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 5:49PM
@11: Race you, fuckist!
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Sep 17, 2008 6:05PM
@#5: you are so right on the money. i don't know how many times i have said to my brother, or he said to me, 'there are so many more enrons out there' or 'all of these FV audits are just one step away from an enron' in terms of the bullshit and potential shock to the system the fallout from a TRUE fair valuation of hte firms' assets would cause.
still though, what's going on nowadays is truly amazing. history in the making. unmaking history. if that makes sense.
Posted by HAM05 , Sep 17, 2008 6:11PM
@30 you're ruining the movie for me
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 7:39PM
@24
You bend at the elbow d-bag.
Posted by guest , Sep 17, 2008 9:09PM
#17
chimp
Posted by NotNasser , Sep 18, 2008 12:30AM
I'm all set then, because I bought a bag full of Chinese yen from a guy I met on the street just last week.
He had an honest face, too. Runs his forex operation in the alley to reduce overhead.
Good thinking. I like that.
Posted by guest , Sep 18, 2008 12:48AM
#6:
http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/
Posted by guest , Sep 18, 2008 1:30AM
Hell, holding Chinese yen is probably safer than holding US dollars right now. If the peg breaks, the yen is only going up relative to the dollar. The man's right.
Posted by guest , Sep 18, 2008 7:19AM
@38, holding Chinese yen. Really?