Shining Path

Shahendra Ohneswere is an avid collector of things with which to occupy his time including video games, fancy cars and various die cast iterations of Voltron. When not working on his contributions to GIANT, he can often be seen on his fire escape trying to tame squirrels.

That Epic Fail That Was 2008: #2

By Shahendra Ohneswere Dec 16, 2008

Wall Street Crumbles

Unlike more financially successfully friends, I didn’t spend much time studying Economics while in college.

Apparently neither did the people who ran Lehman Brothers, AIG, Washington Mutual and all of the other companies that spilled during the stock market crisis.

Thankfully, Uncle Sam was there to bail them out to tune of $700 billion dollars and while millions of people lost their jobs both directly and indirectly because of the crisis that stemmed from sub-prime lending, the people ultimately responsible for the fiasco were allowed to keep their jobs.

By that logic, no one needs to pay their credit card bills. The government can bail us all out.

That’s it. I’m buying an Audi R8 on my starter Visa.

Future failings: You know what happens to those who don’t follow history, right?

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