Now that more than a year has passed since Lehman was proven to be not too big to fail, lawmakers have had ample opportunity to inspect the wreckage and devise a detailed, reasonable strategy to prevent the same type of carnage from happening again. It’s tough enough for analysts to dig through the complex web of businesses at large financial institutions to place earnings estimates on them. A surgical dismantling requires a carefully orchestrated series of steps on-par with launching the Space Shuttle. Barney Frank has some ideas about which commands should be coming from Mission Control and shared them today with Timmy G.
“There will be death panels enacted by Congress this year, I hope. But they will be for those large institutions who are to be put out of business, whose shareholders will be wiped out, whose executives will be fired, whose boards of directors will be replaced.”
Geithner makes a pitch for regulation of financial industry [LA Times]
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:02PM
Greg, you suck my will to live.
-Jesus
Posted by pfluger , Oct 29, 2009 4:03PM
Da analysts should just tawk to me if dey wanna know what upcoming earnings will be.
I got high level contacts all ova da place. I know everything.
-cg
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:07PM
He looks like he's letting out a loose fart in that pic.
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:07PM
Barney Frank is a shitheel.
Posted by pfluger , Oct 29, 2009 4:10PM
I just wuv to watch when the worckets waunch from Cape Canaveral.
Its so sensy, as they thwust upwards towards the heavens, with a twail of flame and the woar of the wocket engines! I just wuv wocket waunches!
-Barney Fwank, Chairman of House Financial Service Committee
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:12PM
Greg,
Seriously, how can you be so unbelievably fucking bad at this? I don't know anyone who is as horrible as you at your job. I fucking hate you and your ass face.
-wildcard bitches!
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:20PM
Yeah right. I'd like to see him take apart Citi and BAC, which are basically bankrupt entities masquarading as companies. Any guesses as to which one will come over to Uncle Sam with cup in hand next? And get another taxpayer bailout!
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:28PM
Barney touches boys inappropriately and gives lap dances to Barry O!
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:28PM
@7
Neither. Sure they're bankrupt without the TARP but guess what? They got TARP and won't go bankrupt. It sounds awfully chic to say it, but it's just not realistic.
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:28PM
I don't know what's worse. Greg's writing, or the fact that half of the commenters on here applied for that same job and he BEAT YOU TO IT!
BOOM
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:31PM
Greg,
I'm going to super-glue your biceps to the sides of your torso, making you look like you're perpetually doing the robot.
~ Jeff Macke
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:39PM
Macke, that's brutal and cold-blooded. Cold-blooded and brutal.
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:45PM
@11/Macke - I think it would make him look more like a raptor than a robot. Except raptors were more intelligent than Greg is. They remember...
- Dr. Alan Grant.
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 4:53PM
Yeah, let's codify this TBTF shit. Make it part of our effing policy. We can throw all the airlines together into one big airline and call it Aeroflot and backstop it. Same with Exxon/Chevron/Std Oil - we'll call it Gazprom and backstop it. Just keep taking my fucking money and shoving it at these shitbag banks. 'Am I taking crazy pills here!!!??'
Posted by Anal_yst , Oct 29, 2009 4:53PM
@10/Greg
Presumably Greg was Lat's hire, not Bess'
Posted by thomas_shawn , Oct 29, 2009 4:56PM
Hopefully, stock ticker GS will be the first to be disassembled.
Posted by american bandersnatch , Oct 29, 2009 5:25PM
@16 - Fool. You mess with the vampire squid, you get the blood funnel!
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 5:32PM
Greg -
That first sentance is longer than my uright pecker. Which you may now proceed to suck on.
John Holmes
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 5:37PM
Greg -
I prayed you had outgrown your gay phase after we took you out of that male boarding school. Obviously not. But I accept you for what you are. You douche.
Love,
Mom
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 6:10PM
#13 ftw
Posted by guest , Oct 29, 2009 9:07PM
@5 -
Wewease Woger!
-Pontius Pilate