The Wall Street Journal looks at the
human cost of the financial crisis:
"A nose job in a hospital with a private nurse in attendance had been something of a rite of passage for Joan Asher's children. But when her fourth and last child was ready for her own rhinoplasty recently, Ms. Asher asked her to postpone it. The financial markets were simply more out of whack than her 16-year-old's proboscis."
And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The central banks “pumped” $180 billion into the economy last week. If you divide that by 6 billion people in the world, about $30 of that should have been pumped at me, but wasn’t. Who got my share? I’ll tell you who. The whole $180 billion went to about 200 dickheads in New York who will fritter it all away on nose jobs and treasury bills and other vulgarities. Meanwhile I’m living in a Colombian hovel reduced to eating instant noodles to survive.
I wrote to Krugman demanding to know where that $180 billion is now, and why can’t I have some. But he’s being very cagey about it. No doubt he got
his share.
It really gets my goat.
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