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So we hit the debt limit...

Started by MadImmortalMan, May 17, 2011, 01:18:23 PM

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MadImmortalMan

"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

The Minsky Moment

We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

garbon

Meh, could be much worse, presentation-wise.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DGuller

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 31, 2011, 09:55:57 PM
Terrible power point technique.
Agreed.  If you want to give a Word handout, give a Word handout.  Don't use PowerPoint as word processor.

garbon

That's some people's speed. I'd rather see them use powerpoint like that than have a deck full of grainy, overstretched images found on google. :bleeding:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Jacob


Jacob

So for whom is this a victory?

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Jacob on July 31, 2011, 11:26:04 PM
So for whom is this a victory?

Democratic minor victory, overwhelming victory for AARP.

Cecil

Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 31, 2011, 11:59:46 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 31, 2011, 11:26:04 PM
So for whom is this a victory?

Democratic minor victory, overwhelming victory for AARP.

Wut?

American association of retired people or something?

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Jacob on July 31, 2011, 11:26:04 PM
So for whom is this a victory?

Who do you think?  Tebaggers and Berkut, and everyone else who hates the concept of a black man in the White House.

Admiral Yi


sbr

Quote from: Cecil on August 01, 2011, 12:03:13 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 31, 2011, 11:59:46 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 31, 2011, 11:26:04 PM
So for whom is this a victory?

Democratic minor victory, overwhelming victory for AARP.

Wut?

American association of retired people or something?

That's waht AARP means, not sure waht Yi meant though.

Cecil

Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 01, 2011, 12:05:29 AM
Quote from: Cecil on August 01, 2011, 12:03:13 AM
Wut?

American association of retired people or something?

Yup.

Alright thanks.

No I didnt google it beforehand, merely a guess.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: sbr on August 01, 2011, 12:05:44 AM
That's waht AARP means, not sure waht Yi meant though.

Did you read Yakie's link?  Social Security and Medicare don't get touched.

sbr

Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 01, 2011, 12:14:28 AM
Quote from: sbr on August 01, 2011, 12:05:44 AM
That's waht AARP means, not sure waht Yi meant though.

Did you read Yakie's link?  Social Security and Medicare don't get touched.

I hadn't when I posted that.