Comments on: Lost in America as Metaphor for Mortgage Meltdown http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Metronicity http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296765 Metronicity Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296765 Excellent! Maybe Bush, McCain and his cohorts can work on associating Christmas with Wall Street - "There aint gonna be a Christmas - you can blame us". BTW it's "we're finished talking". Excellent! Maybe Bush, McCain and his cohorts can work on associating Christmas with Wall Street – “There aint gonna be a Christmas – you can blame us”.

BTW it’s “we’re finished talking”.

]]> By: Foolster41 http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-297282 Foolster41 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-297282 An apt metaphor. I don't think I would be as nice as the casino guy was. I would tell the guy he's crazy and he doesn't understand how reality works. An apt metaphor.

I don’t think I would be as nice as the casino guy was. I would tell the guy he’s crazy and he doesn’t understand how reality works.

]]> By: billmarrs http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296776 billmarrs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296776 lol, that clip was like the opposite of watching a pitch on Mad Men. lol, that clip was like the opposite of watching a pitch on Mad Men.

]]> By: TedJohnson http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296801 TedJohnson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296801 Perfect. One of my all time favorite movies. Watch Brooks' mood change when he thinks he's making progress, and when he encounters a setback. That's the stock market fluctuating. This metaphor would be even better if this were the FOURTH time in a month that Brooks came scraping to Marshall, and asking for the biggest bailout yet. Watch <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html" rel="nofollow">Awkward Loan Interview</a> from The Daily Show. Perfect. One of my all time favorite movies.

Watch Brooks’ mood change when he thinks he’s making progress, and when he encounters a setback. That’s the stock market fluctuating.

This metaphor would be even better if this were the FOURTH time in a month that Brooks came scraping to Marshall, and asking for the biggest bailout yet.

Watch Awkward Loan Interview from The Daily Show.

]]> By: TedJohnson http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296809 TedJohnson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296809 Sorry, <i>this</i> is the correct link to <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186056&title=awkward-loan-interview">Awkward Loan Interview</a> from The Daily Show. Sorry, this is the correct link to Awkward Loan Interview from The Daily Show.

]]> By: william http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296821 william Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296821 Just to be clear, we shouldn't bail out Wall Street because they want it. Fuck them and the Ferraris they rode in on. We should do it because we don't want a collapse of the financial system, and because it's <a href="http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12262103" rel="nofollow">cheaper to clean up the mess all at once</a> rather than doing it one bank failure at a time. Just to be clear, we shouldn’t bail out Wall Street because they want it. Fuck them and the Ferraris they rode in on.

We should do it because we don’t want a collapse of the financial system, and because it’s cheaper to clean up the mess all at once rather than doing it one bank failure at a time.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-297361 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-297361 Harolds in Reno might have given Einstein here his nest egg back. They did this occasionally when someone had foolishly gotten in over their head, and rather than a run on the casino bank, it created enormous positive word of mouth, and helped bring in the average joe, as opposed to the typical hood or compulsive gambler. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/rsmith_hi.html discussses this a bit, but the book this PBS mini series was created from goes into more detail. Of course, that is sort of like making mortgages seem safe as a lure to bring in more people into bad deals. Harolds in Reno might have given Einstein here his nest egg back.

They did this occasionally when someone had foolishly gotten in over their head, and rather than a run on the casino bank, it created enormous positive word of mouth, and helped bring in the average joe, as opposed to the typical hood or compulsive gambler.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/rsmith_hi.html discussses this a bit, but the book this PBS mini series was created from goes into more detail.

Of course, that is sort of like making mortgages seem safe as a lure to bring in more people into bad deals.

]]> By: O_P http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-299168 O_P Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-299168 Is Albert Brooks actually meant to be funny? Or is the fact he's not really funny part of his appeal? I don't get him at all. Is Albert Brooks actually meant to be funny? Or is the fact he’s not really funny part of his appeal?
I don’t get him at all.

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296897 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296897 I feel very much like they just told up to step between their bookie and their knees. I feel very much like they just told up to step between their bookie and their knees.

]]> By: Johnny Cat http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-297165 Johnny Cat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-297165 One of my cherished titles as well. "I've seen the future! And it's a bald-headed man from New York!" Substitute DC for NY, and you got another applicable metaphor. One of my cherished titles as well.

“I’ve seen the future! And it’s a bald-headed man from New York!” Substitute DC for NY, and you got another applicable metaphor.

]]> By: rrsafety http://boingboing.net/2008/09/30/lost-in-america-as-m.html#comment-296947 rrsafety Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-296947 "and the house (Gary Marshall) ain't havin' it. " To make this on point, shouldn't that actually read: "and the house (conservative Republicans in the Congress) ain't havin' it." ?? “and the house (Gary Marshall) ain’t havin’ it. ”

To make this on point, shouldn’t that actually read: “and the house (conservative Republicans in the Congress) ain’t havin’ it.”

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