It’s Caturday, so I am posting some cats, and a story about a guy who apparently thinks we’ve already gone the way of Zimbabwe and that you now have to drop 72 American ducats to get a single Taco Bell grease-bomb: So much for the value menu. A Taco Bell manager in Ohio says a [...]
Entries from December 19th, 2009
What’s On The Brink Of Failure And Just Needed Fitty Bil?
December 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · fail
No, this isn’t a blind item about a bank. It’s an item about perennial whipping-boy Social Security, which apparently just had to ask Mom and Dad for a few bucks to get through the holidays: The House on Wednesday passed legislation giving the federal government the ability to borrow a whopping $290 billion to finance [...]
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What’s A Sucker And Has A New Job?
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · all ur bankz
At last, our long national nightmare is over: Bank of America has named its next ex-CEO. After a two-and-a-half-month search that seemed to stretch across the nation’s banking industry, Bank of America late Wednesday named Mr. Moynihan, the head of its consumer banking business, to succeed its beleaguered leader, Kenneth D. Lewis. Since Lewis announced [...]
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Ben Bernanke Named Best Man In History
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · bernanke
For saving the economy for being an even bigger fail, or something, TIME went and named Ben Bernanke its 2009 Person of the Year. We are not generally in the business of heaping accolades on anyone, except our secret crush Jamie Dimon, so this whole thing is a little awkward. We really don’t even know [...]
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Fat Cats Resent The Whole Banker Comparison Thing
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · caturday
Lily, the official fatcat mascot of LOLFed, won’t go out without a disguise ever since President Obama made that comparison between fat cats and bankers. The Reformed Broker has one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while, an official letter from The American Fat Cat Society to the President: In contradistinction between the [...]
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