Nope, that’s not a LOLFed photoshop job! It’s for realsies. Wells Fargo is one of many banks that will let you customize your credit or debit card these days, with a picture of Mom, the kids, Gary Coleman, or what have you. $WFC customer Tony Webster picked Ceiling Cat for his card (because who needs [...]
Entries from January 26th, 2010
$WFC Customer Haz Ceiling Cat Watchin His Expenditures
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · all ur bankz, win
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This Is the Sign of a Guilty Conscience
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · bailout, fail
The AIG bailout hits just keep on coming. Emails from that House committee hearing this week about the bailout and the NY Fed’s attempts to keep secrets about it reveal more lolz. The emails from early last year reveal that officials at the New York Fed were only comfortable with AIG submitting a critical bailout-related [...]
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I’m Serious You Guys!
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · bernanke, markets, Timmay
Human parody Timmay Geithner has added his voice to the cacophony surrounding Ben’s confirmation will-he-or-wont-he, threatening (as much as Timmay can threaten anyone) doom and gloom if Ben doesn’t come back as Fed Head. Asked about possible market reaction to a defeat, Geithner said: “I think the markets would view that as a very troubling [...]
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Operation Mugabe: Opposing The Fed And Flipping Mish’s Script
January 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · bernanke
So the reappointment of Benny is going to go to a vote soon, and Mish Shedlock is organizing a phone drive of sorts to encourage anyone opposed to the confirmation of Ben Bernanke’s reappointment to call up the undecided Senators and express their discontent. It’s a good cause, and if you’d like to see Benny [...]
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Regulation Makes Larry Sad
January 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · fail
Paul Volcker finally gave Larry Summers his comeuppance, and Jason covered the topic more brilliantly than I could hope to do. That said, Jeremy M. sent me a BusinessInsider article comparing the faces of Paul and Lar at yesterday’s press conference, and I couldn’t resist captioning the Summers shot.
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