Beats Entropy

Wow…so, the U.S. economy sort of broke. What happened? How fucked are we?

Daniel Rogers

Kapashaw, NY

Well, Dan, I’m not sure a unemployed aspiring writer, whose idea of financial planning is seeding his apartment with random pockets of change, is really the best source of economic insight.  Still, it’s not like actual economist are any good at this either, so I’ll give it a shot.

Here’s the math

Bank + old rich guy (barren wife)/cheap thrills*not their money

No oversight+ too many episodes of flip this house*predatory lending

Equals: China hosting the next politburo meeting in the Statue of Liberty’s torch

I hope that cleared things up for you.

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