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(Wall Street Journal) Amusing Hugo Chavez mocked Lehman Bros. collapse as sign of capitalism's demise, not realizing Venezuela holds $300 million in debt instruments from Lehman. Bonus: Reporter apparently laughing too hard to finish article   (online.wsj.com) divider line 250
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St_Francis_P [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 02:07:05 PM  
May I be the first to say:

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smooshie [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 02:12:24 PM  

 
50mm [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 02:30:51 PM  
Some modmin out there add an 'o' to that "too" before this goes green.

 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 02:40:26 PM  
50mm: Some modmin out there add an 'o' to that "too" before this goes green.

Farkback.

 
HagarTheHorrible [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:11:12 PM  
I found that article quite...

 
sleeping martyr [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:21:10 PM  
Oh man, that's just absolutely...

 
SurfaceTension [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:33:42 PM  
I was watching the last episode of a well regarded Mafia type show on HBO and...

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:34:49 PM  
Wow, he was laughing too hard to finish the article.

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:40:35 PM  
Walker: Wow, he was laughing too hard to finish the article.

No, the math was too hard. WSJ got dumbed down when Murdoch took over. The reporter couldn't figure what kind of discount the debt would trade at.

 
NittLion78 2008-09-19 03:54:34 PM  
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fatassbastard [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:57:25 PM  
two

 
wh0mprat 2008-09-19 03:58:09 PM  
But if the government bails out Lehman...does that mean the Fed owes Chavez 300 Million bucks?

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-09-19 03:58:16 PM  
When your party and ideology is going down the tubes, it's time to get obsessed with South American populists, because. . . well, just because.

 
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo 2008-09-19 03:58:32 PM  
Eh, I'm having real trouble finding anything to laugh about as we dump $2 trillion on the taxpayer to save the pigmen...

 
scseth 2008-09-19 03:58:58 PM  
This article ends like the Sopranos

 
Gothmolly 2008-09-19 03:59:05 PM  
Can we get a Chavez/Mugabe tag? They're like the Florida of the global community.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:59:17 PM  
wh0mprat: But if the government bails out Lehman...does that mean the Fed owes Chavez 300 Million bucks?

Awkwaaaaaaaaaaaard

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-09-19 03:59:46 PM  
wh0mprat: But if the government bails out Lehman...does that mean the Fed I owes Chavez 300 Million bucks?

Yes. Also Russia, and China. . .and a whole bunch of other countries that we've got free money from to pay for tax cuts and other irresponsibility.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 03:59:52 PM  
scseth: This article ends like the Sopranos

What's your problem with the

 
nauseaa 2008-09-19 04:00:17 PM  
Deposit $19.99 for the next two paragraphs...

 
wh0mprat 2008-09-19 04:00:24 PM  
The real problem with capitalism is that the rich people are hogging all the money.

 
T-Luv 2008-09-19 04:00:40 PM  
Reporter apparently laughing totwo hard to too finish article

 
redflag 2008-09-19 04:00:55 PM  
Bonus: Subby apparently laughing too hard for proper grammar

 
priestrape 2008-09-19 04:01:35 PM  
two bad

 
tuxq 2008-09-19 04:01:39 PM  
you have to log in to finish reading the ar...

 
wh0mprat 2008-09-19 04:01:39 PM  
DarnoKonrad: wh0mprat: But if the government bails out Lehman...does that mean the Fed I owes Chavez 300 Million bucks?

Yes. Also Russia, and China. . .and a whole bunch of other countries that we've got free money from to pay for tax cuts and other irresponsibility.


Ha. I'm not American. I don't owe those commie bastards a dime.

 
Atomic_Puppy 2008-09-19 04:01:55 PM  
"Reporter apparently laughing to hard to finish article"

Is it better than Viagra?

 
databit [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 04:02:05 PM  
wh0mprat: The real problem with capitalism is that the rich people are hogging all the money.

Stop giving it to them!

 
icstepec 2008-09-19 04:02:28 PM  
Well, I mean we're not going to be communist like Russia/China/NK/Cuba, etc--but we are technically currently going into socialism (like Marx predicted..)

Communism: the elite few decide to push Socialism unto everyone
Socialism: capitalism fails and the government saves the jobs of everyone by absorbing that into the people

/shrug
//I lived in 3rd world country
///but I do admit, winters do get colder here
////way colder in some parts

 
RiverRat 2008-09-19 04:02:30 PM  
Damn you fatassbastard

I came in to be a nazi, ... and you were faster and wittier

/must be the TF badge
//yeah, that's it

 
Pilikia 2008-09-19 04:02:35 PM  
Subscription required...

 
tuxq 2008-09-19 04:02:52 PM  
full article here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1629259920080916

 
Not a toN 2008-09-19 04:02:57 PM  
this made me laugh towards hardness

/unable to finish article

 
PowerSlacker 2008-09-19 04:03:03 PM  
RON P...

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 04:03:07 PM  
Great! Another Chavez-bashing thread.

Come on out you reluctant Bush-lovers, you! Let's hear about how BAD Chavez is, how he's the next CASTRO, how he's going to DESTROY VENEZUELA'S economy...

All while the neo-con President bails out his neo-liberal business buddies...that's OK.

 
wh0mprat 2008-09-19 04:03:14 PM  
databit: wh0mprat: The real problem with capitalism is that the rich people are hogging all the money.

Stop giving it to them!


Srsly. You want to bring fown the system? Stop buying shiat you don't need!

 
T-Luv 2008-09-19 04:03:19 PM  
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: Eh, I'm having real trouble finding anything to laugh about as we dump $2 trillion on the taxpayer to save the pigmen...

It's not real money. It's all on computers. Just a bunch of numbers on a screen.

 
xria 2008-09-19 04:04:21 PM  
Isn't 80% or more of their GDP based on oil production? I imagine that at the moment they aren't really going to miss such a small amount of cash too badly.

 
xellas84 2008-09-19 04:04:22 PM  
This is starting to look like a Candlejack atta...

 
factoryconnection 2008-09-19 04:04:34 PM  
This makes Chavez look a little foolish.

However, it should make American ears burn... foreign investors worldwide bought up so much of the debt that we've accumulated through leveraging our homes, businesses, and possessions to buy shinier objects. They own these items, not the friendly folks down at 1st National S&L.

 
spikedsynapse 2008-09-19 04:04:35 PM  
you a broke tooo

 
chipspastic 2008-09-19 04:04:44 PM  
Gothmolly: Can we get a Chavez/Mugabe tag? They're like the Florida/Texas of the global community.

FTFY

 
jayg22 2008-09-19 04:05:35 PM  
McCain just released an ad today:

Obama and Hugo sitting in a tree.
(new window)

 
Belltower 2008-09-19 04:06:19 PM  
Darconix: Oh be honest. If you had all that money instead of them you'd just waste it on hookers and blow anyway.

I'd hardly call that wasted...

 
icanhazstapler [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-09-19 04:06:32 PM  
T-Luv: It's not real money. It's all on computers. Just a bunch of numbers on a screen.

Yep, and we can always just make more if we run out! Yay fiscal irresponsibility!

 
Satyagraha 2008-09-19 04:07:08 PM  
Venezuela Faces Loss on Lehman unless government approves bailout


FTFT

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Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo 2008-09-19 04:07:34 PM  
T-Luv: Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: Eh, I'm having real trouble finding anything to laugh about as we dump $2 trillion on the taxpayer to save the pigmen...

It's not real money. It's all on computers. Just a bunch of numbers on a screen.


Tell that to all the little old ladies who will have to survive on Tender Vittles for the next 20 years...

 
Nhojwolfe [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 04:07:38 PM  
-5 for subby
no internet for you

 
whidbey [TotalFark] 2008-09-19 04:07:41 PM  
xria: Isn't 80% or more of their GDP based on oil production? I imagine that at the moment they aren't really going to miss such a small amount of cash too badly.

Venezuela not only paid off its billions in debt to the IMF, but also helped pay Argentina's...

 
jayg22 2008-09-19 04:07:50 PM  
wh0mprat: The real problem with capitalism is that the rich people are hogging all the money.

Actually I think you meant:

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat

 
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