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Mon August 15, 2011
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(Some Guy) Asinine Petroleum industry analyst explains why gas prices rise faster than they fall. Because they're doing it to us on purpose, suspiciously absent  (usnews.com) (49)


Sun August 14, 2011
(LA Times) Sad Young people putting off the American Dream  (latimes.com) (300)
(Economist) Scary How screwed is the U.S. dollar? Zimbabwe is considering abandoning their currency peg to avoid inflation  (economist.com) (43)
(Detroit News) PSA Rest assured that If your new 2012 Chevy Impala suddenly loses steering and the engine fire light goes on, it's probably one of the vehicles covered under today's recall  (detnews.com) (31)


Sat August 13, 2011
(Daily Kos) Followup Turns out Marx was right after all: Capitalism is killing itself  (dailykos.com) (407)
(Reuters) Obvious Italian and British finance ministers address the elephant in the room, propose the only logical solution to the European debt crisis  (reuters.com) (65)
(Mother Nature Network) Obvious The reason we're seeing riots and chaos on Wall Street is because of ... spins excuse wheel ...intense space storms  (mnn.com) (27)


Fri August 12, 2011
(Some Guy) Asinine Verizon strikers sabotage landlines to Police station. Keep it classy, strikers  (wtae.com) (218)
(CNBC) Interesting There's a selloff at Penneys  (cnbc.com) (30)
(MSNBC) Florida Ten housing markets that'll collapse this year; they think Detroit can still get worse. Tag is for #1  (msnbc.msn.com) (78)
(CNBC) Followup Break out the Kentucky jelly because the Fed is going to ease QE3 right in the financehole  (cnbc.com) (33)
(Forbes) PSA Counterfeit name brand golf clubs becoming serious import problem. Custom agents tell golfers to avoid Callaway irons if they are unusually small, made of red plastic, signed Fischer Price  (forbes.com) (16)
(Marketwatch) Spiffy Nvidia displays promising results  (marketwatch.com) (17)
(bossip) Spiffy Qantas airlines apparently feels their passengers aren't masturbating enough while flying  (bossip.com) (13)
(Bloomberg) Fail South Africa's health plan may cost $35 billion. IT'S JUST BEEN REVOKED  (bloomberg.com) (17)
(PC Magazine) Misc 12 Flying Cars Experiments Which Paved The Way For This Industry  (pcmag.com) (11)
(Yahoo) Followup Asshole Uzbekistan can Fark again  (finance.yahoo.com) (6)
(CNN) Stupid Europe drops shorts  (money.cnn.com) (9)
(CNN) Followup USPS continues cost cutting, will immediately mail pink slips to 120,000 workers. Those affected should find out in about six weeks  (money.cnn.com) (37)
(Salon) Fail Flying is cheaper than it's ever been, according to someone who never has carry-on luggage with them  (salon.com) (46)
(YouTube) Video Pilots make better CEOs due to the fact that, when it comes to BS, they can pile it anywhere  (youtube.com) (13)
(CSMonitor) Strange I'm a Pepper, You're a Pepper, no you're not, yes I am, no way, yes way, I'm the real pepper, no your not I'm the real pepper, screw this I'm suing you  (csmonitor.com) (55)


Thu August 11, 2011
(Bloomberg) Interesting How the S&P Rating downgrade saved the U.S. Government $687 million in one week. Irony tag ready as an understudy  (bloomberg.com) (33)
(Some Credit Analyst Guy) Interesting Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland and Sweden all once lost their AAA rating. It "only" took between 10 and 17 years to get back to AAA  (forexnewsnow.com) (44)
(Bloomberg) Fail Franc surrenders  (bloomberg.com) (33)
(Yahoo) Cool Jobless claims at a four month low as companies are running out of workers to let go  (news.yahoo.com) (29)
(whptv) Followup Ground turkey recall now hits 36 million pounds, or enough to feed an Iowa family of four  (whptv.com) (14)
(MSN) Spiffy The majority of wealthy people either won the sperm lottery, stole from employees marginal product of labor, or used market failures to rip off consumers. Here are ten people that didn't  (money.msn.com) (65)
(Yahoo) Interesting There were fewer foreclosure warnings in July, probably because there aren't that many homes left to foreclose  (finance.yahoo.com) (4)
(Guardian.com) Amusing News Corp profits go up on news that the 2nd in command is every cartoon villain ever  (guardian.co.uk) (8)
(Economist) Weird Facebook pokes to soon have the option of transmitting dysentery as new data center is opened in Oregon  (economist.com) (13)
(CNN) Obvious Groupon "revises" their financial statements, admits they're burning through cash like a hemophiliac at a paper cut convention  (money.cnn.com) (25)
(News.com.au) Fail Sydney airport body scanners being set off by sweaty armpits. Australia braces for decline of European tourists  (news.com.au) (6)
(Bloomberg) Interesting CISCO profit strength 13% [open - connect]  (bloomberg.com) (8)
(Some Guy) Interesting Chrysler launches "No payment til its first breakdown" program  (autoblog.com) (36)
(CNN) Unlikely US stocks ready for rebound. That's good. Or plummeting. That's bad. Or they contain potassium benzoate  (money.cnn.com) (26)
(Marketwatch) Unlikely Now is a yabba dabba good time to buy these bedrock blue chips  (marketwatch.com) (4)
(Forbes) Followup AOL shares continue to drop, even after posting 2nd quarter results. Angry creditors send email to company reminding "you've got bills"  (forbes.com) (13)


Wed August 10, 2011
(Adweek) Obvious Levi's decides using raw footage of street demonstrators is no way to sell jeans in England right now. "It's a little risky to embrace youthful rebellion in advertising right now"  (adweek.com) (14)
(Google) Scary Dow drops another 519 points on the news that no one knows what the fark is going on anymore  (google.com) (151)
(CNN) Spiffy Amazon gets one up on Apple in the e-publishing war  (tech.fortune.cnn.com) (71)
(JSOnline) Spiffy Depressed TIF districts get a BMP with new legislation  (jsonline.com) (11)
(CNN) Fail Walmart closes its online music store. In other news, Walmart had an online music store  (tech.fortune.cnn.com) (17)
(Reuters) Obvious Besides DIAF  (blogs.reuters.com) (37)
(Yahoo) Fail E.ON has E.LOST over $2 billion due to nuclear panic asshattery. If I ever start a band, I'm calling it Nuclear Panic Asshattery  (finance.yahoo.com) (12)
(Bloomberg) Weird Google lost search engine share in July... to YAHOO?  (bloomberg.com) (35)
(Yahoo) Cool Pay TV loses record number of subscribers on the news you don't have to pay $100 per month to download your favorite shows  (finance.yahoo.com) (89)
(CNN) Fail Bad news, Drew. That $1 million Italian supercar paid for by TF subscriptions isn't coming across the pond anytime soon  (money.cnn.com) (25)
(Marketwatch) Cool Boeing hits the 777 jackpot  (marketwatch.com) (14)
(eastern iowa life) Spiffy Iowa State Fair opens Thursday with chance to see the world's heaviest man and the most heavily tattooed woman. Although not on exhibit, you'll probably see them walking around the fairgrounds  (easterniowalife.com) (58)
(Salon) PSA The Sword of Damocles is poised above Bank of America at the moment, ready to lop off the head of the bloated, fee-fueled beast. And that's not a bad thing  (salon.com) (52)
(Marketwatch) Interesting Æon Fluxing growth  (marketwatch.com) (8)
(MSNBC) PSA Markets set to slide again, or maybe rebound, or maybe see-saw through the day. Honestly, who the fark knows?  (msnbc.msn.com) (50)
(Marketwatch) Interesting Lots of stocks rebounding after the Fed's empty words. How many is lots? A Brazilian  (marketwatch.com) (3)
(Salon) Interesting The history of the Nike Swoosh, which tuned 40 this year. Meaning it will grow its hair, buy a Corvette, and run off with its young secretary  (salon.com) (36)


Tue August 09, 2011
(Bloomberg) Followup Tears to replace pears for Harry and David pensioners  (bloomberg.com) (58)
(Deseret News) Obvious S&P would kindly ask the government not to bomb their buildings, arrest all employees on terrorism charges and mount them onto waterboards in secret prisons  (deseretnews.com) (51)
(Reuters) Obvious Highly paid equity analysts are too afraid of playground ridicule to do their jobs  (reuters.com) (10)
(Reuters) PSA Markets go up, Markets go down, Markets go up, Market go down, Investors puke off the side of rollercoaster, You still don't have a job  (reuters.com) (44)
(Bloomberg) Unlikely Glenn Beck was right after all  (bloomberg.com) (81)
(CNN) Interesting If you want a Galaxy Tab in Europe, you have to go Dutch  (tech.fortune.cnn.com) (12)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Mystery investor places an $850 million bet in the futures market last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating and made something like $10 billion. Was it this man?  (dailymail.co.uk) (48)
(CNBC) Dumbass US credit rating closer to junk than AAA, if the US were a private corporation  (cnbc.com) (42)
(Some Bernanke) PSA The Federal Reserve has decided that the US Dollar isn't worthless enough and will hold rates near 0% for the next 2 years  (federalreserve.gov) (151)
(Some Guy) Amusing For 13 minutes, Apple was the most valuable company in the world  (businessinsider.com) (130)
(Marketwatch) Unlikely Why you should hire a buyer broker, by one very hungry real estate agent  (marketwatch.com) (18)
(DC Examiner) Dumbass From the guy who just shut down NASA: "Creating jobs is not rocket science"   (campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com) (77)
(Time) Interesting The MSM ask if the Fed will step in to save the Stock Market. Morbo screams "The economy does not work that way"   (curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Cool Main Street prospers when Wall Street suffers. We may be on to something here  (finance.yahoo.com) (24)
(CNN) Interesting Apple's cheaper today at 353 than it was a few years back at 78  (tech.fortune.cnn.com) (11)
(Marketwatch) Strange AOL continues to remain in business  (marketwatch.com) (7)
(Talking Points Memo) PSA "Although Standard & Poor's is a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, we here at McGraw-Hill had nothing to do with trashing America's credit rating"  (talkingpointsmemo.com) (30)
(Bloomberg) Fail Productivity falls for second straight quarter. I blame Drew Curtis and his siren song of Fark.com  (bloomberg.com) (17)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Ican haz a Q2 profit?  (finance.yahoo.com) (4)
(Marketwatch) Fail I know what you're thinking. "Did the fed fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself  (marketwatch.com) (33)
(Bloomberg) Fail U.K. factory output (F-UK) unexpectedly falls. Oh F-UK  (bloomberg.com) (5)
(News.com.au) Spiffy Glimmer of hope: Australian financial markets have a remarkable turnaround on Tuesday  (news.com.au) (22)


Mon August 08, 2011
(Yahoo) Scary Asian stock markets open on Tuesday morning, immediately plunge more than 5%  (finance.yahoo.com) (623)
(Forbes) Sad Wyly killed. Mega Man now equipped with Car Crasher  (blogs.forbes.com) (18)
(BBC) Obvious US 'unlikely to regain AAA soon'  (bbc.co.uk) (128)
(USA Today) Ironic From today's "Glass Houses" news, AIG sues BofA for fraud  (usatoday.com) (25)
(The New York Times) Interesting 538 on why the S&P ratings system is a POS   (fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com) (33)
(The Consumerist) Asinine Comcast proves once again why they're not synonymous with "good customer service"  (consumerist.com) (45)
(CNBC) Followup Warren Buffett gets all Moody about S&P's US debt downgrade, and completely coincidentally they followup with a downgrade of Berkshire Hathaway  (cnbc.com) (239)
(AnnArbor.com) Silly Worried about the markets? That's the least of your problems: the Noid is back  (annarbor.com) (59)
(Yahoo) Scary Flash traffic: President Obama to give speech about economy at 1pm et today. Repeat: sell whatever smoldering ruin of stock you still own by 1 pm. Message ends  (finance.yahoo.com) (573)
(Yahoo) Scary Gold hits 1,700 per ounce as news hits that we're all farked  (finance.yahoo.com) (34)
(NewsMax) Stupid Author predicts financial disaster, 50% unemployment, 100% inflation, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria  (newsmax.com) (17)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious One more sign of a crashing economy: extended limpness in cable/satellite porn revenue  (online.wsj.com) (6)
(Miami Herald) Asinine "Job creators" have a message for the unemployed: "Do the work of five people and have the skillset of a post-graduate if you want to work for minimum wage"  (miamiherald.com) (88)
(BusinessWeek) Asinine Nigeria to transfer $4.5 billion into nationalized banks, will need your assistance for this transfer. Please send $45,000 and you will get 20%  (businessweek.com) (3)
(Moneywatch) Followup S&P downgrades US Treasury securities for the first time ever. Market panics. Investors flee risk and move to standard safe-haven: US Treasury securities  (moneywatch.bnet.com) (114)
(Marketwatch) Scary If you thought this debt crisis was bad, just wait until the next 10 years  (marketwatch.com) (14)
(Washington Post) Scary Greek stock market takes it in the ass, closes at 14-year low  (washingtonpost.com) (16)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Toyota tries to plan its next move after speeding out of control to third place in the market  (suntimes.com) (15)
(Reuters) Scary It's got that 1937 feeling  (reuters.com) (42)
(Bloomberg) Obvious The world's going to hell in a handbasket, and what does G-Money Buffett do? (falsetto voice) "$hopping"  (bloomberg.com) (9)
(CNBC) Hero Warren Buffett goes Chuck Norris on S&P, says that he'll downgrade America when he's damn good and ready  (cnbc.com) (209)
(Marketwatch) Obvious U mad, market bro?  (marketwatch.com) (7)
(CNN) Scary How much will the US stock market drop on Monday? Place your bets  (money.cnn.com) (146)

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