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Tiny kaiju's avatar

Not that it will make much difference but this is the sort of thing Elizabeth Warren was made for.

bobbert's avatar

I meant to comment earlier that lisawines's comment did not require a tin hat. I don't necessarily think that the real estate crash was planned, but I have no doubt that folks were laying plans to profit from the price collapse within microseconds. (Shit, <b>I</b> thought about it).

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Charlie don't serf

Shypixel's avatar

All I can say is that if anyone, anywhere, is relying on money from me...

They are truly fucked.

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

or a politician

(yes, that's being redundant)

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

too bad it's a lone voice in the wilderness on Capitol Hill

Jared James's avatar

Whoever thought up the term "rent-seeking" probably didn't mean it to be taken quite so literally.

<i>sigh</i> Business majors.

diogenez's avatar

When did life become a Dickens novel?

schmannity's avatar

It is kind of like making bricks with your own shit.

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

maybe it's time for main street to corner the market on torches and pitchforks

Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

they already have- between the check cashing places and the title loan places and the overpriced grocery markets in food desert areas and the plethora of convenience charges and fees on everything including SNAP payments, they manage to bleed the homeless dry just fine

Lot_49's avatar

Well, they did have to go beg for money from their own employees in Congress and the Fed. That hurt a lot!

Lot_49's avatar

Don't worry, they're shorting those securities as fast as they sell them with ol' reliable credit default swaps. What could go wrong?

Lot_49's avatar

Not to mention slaves. It's taken almost a century to fix that error.