Friday Toon

August 16, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

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  1. Marge Wood says:

    There’s lots of ways to ah, er, redirect activities. I feel sorry for Egypt, really sorry, but we really oughta be doing something about the Koch brothers and their asstd. investments/political groups. I hate to admit it but I don’t understand derivatives. Can someone help me? I do know, and have suggested to Obama, that Yellen might be better than Summers for the job.

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  2. Marge, Thom Hartmann has the best explanation of derivatives I’ve heard. See if you can google it. It was simple and easy to understand — about making a loan to someone, for $5, then approaching a friend and asking them to bet $10 that the loan won’t be repaid, then that person goes to another friend and asks them to bet $20 that that loan won’t be repaid, etc. It helped me to understand how massive the issue was and IS, because they are doing it all over again!

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  3. If Summers is the poster boy for de-regulation, and he most certainly is, how can he be trusted to head the Federal Reserve?
    Those Wall Street thieves need more regulation not less.

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  4. Marge…. Skip will explain it to you over a nice bottle of wine…. or three. By the bottom of the last bottle, you won’t care about derivatives…..and will wish you had never asked. He has a marvelous way of explaining very complicated subjects to the point of wrist slashing. Oh, yeah… we’ve almost hit 20 years of marriage, so at this point, I go to sleep after about 30 minutes of his economics 101 class…. so if you are up for it… just ask. Trust me.. you will get sleepy.

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  5. Marge Wood says:

    Thanks, Hunky. I’ll try to remember to check out Thom Hartmann and derivatives. I think all those super rich guys see the whole thing as a board game they play. They forget they’re playing with folks’ lives.

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