I think I will try and make it. Not sure yet.

“It’s not exaggerating to say that the world is fleeing the dollar in what amounts to a global run on Washington itself – from Capitol Hill to the White House to the Federal Reserve. The world’s investors are saying they lack confidence in U.S. leadership.

That’s certainly true of the Fed, where Mr. Bernanke looks increasingly like a professor shocked to find that the world has rejected his academic theories [ouch]. Yesterday’s dreadful inflation numbers are as stark a repudiation of Fed policy as you could imagine: up 1.1% in June alone, 5% for the last 12 months, the highest in 17 years.”

Sort of a lightning round of dunces.

Kurt Cobain’s name is invoked at least once in almost every thread here.

This is how the Incredible Hulk happened.

Oh…wait…that was a comic book.

“law degree doesn’t mean you have to be a lawyer.But it is one of the best educations you can have for just about any other field.”

Agree with this. My father in law has a law degree from a good law school and found it incredibly useful in his work as a general contractor.

See you (and any others) there

I will never forget when I first moved to NYC after college and was opening a bank account at Chase. The guy in front of me in line was opening an account as well and deposited $30,000 in cash. Then he said he wanted $100 back. The teller told him that it would be 5 business days or some BS before he could make a withdrawal. The guy started screaming at her “What do you mean– I just handed you $30,000. Either you give me $100 back right now or I will pull my entire account and go down the street.” Obviously, she gave him the $100.

I think banks are generally pathetic and are looking to screw their customers more than anything else. But they get away with it because people do not pay attention to their bills and do not save any money, so banks feel they can get away with screwing them and even if people decide to raise a fuss, they aren’t really losing much because they don’t have much in the way of deposits anyway.

If they can create a female supermodel version, i would love to hear that John story.