Saturday, 31 October 2009
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Recession Inspired Halloween Costumes
Bear Stearns/Lehman Bros Investment Banker
Gold digger
Money bag
Easy Credit to remind us of the good old days
How it feels like to many in the stock market
Simple design, but says it all
Super Scary "Ponzi King" . Walk around and offer people guaranteed 10% - 20% returns for an even more chilling effect. =:-0
The Invisible Man, also known as The Economic Recovery
Happy Halloween!
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I wish I could pull off that Invisible Man costume! :/
LOL. Or you could dress up as a hobo or with your friends with the sign "Hungry Hungry Hobo(s)."
AHAHAHA. Money bag baby is so cute! :D What a way to remind you of the recession when you look back at your kid's childhood photos. hehe
Recession is a state of mind, popularized by the media.
THIS is my recession costume! $15 for two!
@meta_k@xanga - What's stopping you? =)
@snapeful@xanga - That's a good one! =)
@LoveMeDeux@xanga - With unemployment at it highest levels in over 26 years and record numbers of banks and other companies failing, the people who are unemployed and still looking for work may disagree with your assessment of it just being a media induced "state of mind".
@SoullFire@xanga - Companies, businesses, and people are all just reacting to the media. There may have been one small thing that started it but the most it is publicized the more people are not spending and bosting the economy.
@snapeful@xanga - haha, thats a good one :D
@LoveMeDeux@xanga - "There may have been one small thing that started it...."
Whoa...."may" have been one "small" thing? You seem to be missing the seriousness of the events of the recent past. Allow me to name a few...
1) Housing bubble with easy credit and more and more people getting into homes they couldn't really afford. The only thing keep them safe was a climbing housing market.
2) Housing bubble pops and the crap starts hitting the fan with plummeting home values, record foreclosures, and sub prime mortgage companies declaring bankruptcy.
3) Prime lending banks also start failing in mass because they made too many bad loans.
4) Investment banks on Wall Street created derivatives off of these bad mortgages for more leverage, but leverage works two ways and now they are losing 100's of billions.
5) Lehman Bros declares bankruptcy, and all the wall street banks are on the verge of collapse
We were on the verge of Great Depression 2.0. The Govt spent about TWO TRILLION in emergency spending to try to prevent that from happening....money that you and I and future generations will have to pay back in higher taxes and lower services.
I assure you, this is not some media concocted fantasy - this is as real as it gets. people aren't spending because home prices dropped like a rock, banks have killed easy credit, people are afraid of losing their jobs since they know of friends/co-workers who've been fired. And month after month goes by with more people losing their jobs.
hahaha love em!