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Feb. 24th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
How to spend your eight bucks!
These are answers from economists to a question posed by the Wall Street Journal, not an article in the Onion, so some of the answers are serious. But you can tell it was a struggle for some of them to answer with a straight face. My favorite:
These are answers from economists to a question posed by the Wall Street Journal, not an article in the Onion, so some of the answers are serious. But you can tell it was a struggle for some of them to answer with a straight face. My favorite:
Paul Kasriel, Northern Trust: I would use the extra cash to start a hedge fund, which would purchase newly-issued asset-backed securities. I would finance my position through the Fed’s TALF program.
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Date: 2009-02-24 04:54 pm (UTC)If you’re stuck for ideas, just keep on using ATM machines, owned by other banks, so you can pay large fees to take out small sums of money from your checking account. When you need to, take all of your withdrawals and deposit them back in the account once again and start all over with the process.
AhAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
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Date: 2009-02-24 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-27 01:19 am (UTC)