Posts Tagged ‘financial crisis’

you wouldn’t buy our shitty cars

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

“so we’ll be taking your money anyway”

“you probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. but you forgot one thing: we spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. so now you’re out $25 billion, plus the cost of your subaru. maybe next time you’ll buy american like a real man. either way, we’re cool. we’re the big three. we don’t need to compete.”

(via adfreak and you might want to check out lawrence lessig’s rant on bailouts)

the economist – oh fuck!

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

hats off to the uber-intelligent folks at ‘‘ who have, in just two words, so eloquently captured how we are all feeling about the current state of the financial markets.

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