Meltdown
Consumerist has a really weird little stick figure slide show explaining the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. It uses bad words and gets pretty funny around slide 28. Just suffer through the investment banking part.
Consumerist has a really weird little stick figure slide show explaining the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. It uses bad words and gets pretty funny around slide 28. Just suffer through the investment banking part.
February 26, 2008 at 7:59 pm
You know, I didn’t read it. I looked at it and all I saw was “Hey look! A whole lot of words for my poor college-exhausted brain.” But I did manage to produce the following thought:
Who in their right mind would read 27 pages of boring, poorly drawn comic without knowing that the end would be funny? At least with books the critics are paid to do it, and then people read it because the critics gave them some sort of expectation. You know, people wouldn’t pick up War and Peace just because they felt like wasting some amount of their life. They’d have to have some sort of expectation. A Malaysian girl on a bus, sure you might waste some time to see where it ends. But not a book. And I’d imagine not a MS Paint comic strip about economic crises that eats up 45 pages.
So, who told you that the comic was good? And if no one did, then I’d suggest you hop a bus and see who you meet, because that might provide a more fulfilling distraction… or maybe a STD…
Either way, I just wasted way too much time replying to this entry when I am supposed to be writing my working thesis and bibliography!