1) Bank examiner 'fired by Fed over critical report on Goldman Sachs' (The Telegraph) - The first rule of FED Club: you do not talk about Goldman Sachs. Yikes.
2) Cohen To Sell Paintings (FIN Alternatives) - It's a sad state of affairs when you have to sell the paintings on your walls just to make rent.
3) Chase Bank Limits Cash Withdrawals, Bans International Wire Transfers (InfoWars.com) - Putting aside the source for a moment, this is pretty scary for a lot of reasons. And it's for real, because JPM Chase felt compelled to explain. I don't normally side with the tin foil hat crowd, but I think Alex has a point here. Money = Freedom, and any limitations on one have disastrous consequences on the other.
4) During The Vote, A House Stenographer Was Removed From The Chamber After Screaming About Freemasons (Business Insider) - Definitely the highlight of this whole retarded shitshow.
5) How Twitter Insiders Cut Their Taxes (Wall Street Journal) - This GRAT strategy is pretty slick. I can remember a time when going public was just as much a risk to a founder as it was to investors. Those days are over. When your main concern is shielding the billions you'll make from taxes, the risk side of the equation has moved sharply to the investors side.
6) MARK ZUCKERBERG BOUGHT FOUR HOUSES NEAR HIS HOME. YOU KNOW, FOR PRIVACY (Fast Company) - Speaking of IPO billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg is going full David Koresh and building a Waco-style compound in the middle of Palo Alto. No word yet on when his translation of the Book of Revelation will be available.
7) Forget about generating billions: Why entrepreneurs should create $1,000 startups (The Next Web) - Time for a reality check. You're not Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg, but that doesn't mean you can't knock one out of the park a little at a time. This is some solid advice. Build something small and then grow from there.
8) Gamers committing war crimes should suffer 'virtual consequences,' says Red Cross (The Verge) - We all know it's not enough to just kill an opponent in a video game - you have to profane his corpse while he's waiting to respawn. If teabagging a virtual corpse is wrong, I don't want to be right.
9) Anthony Hopkins Sent Bryan Cranston This Fanboy Email After Binge Watching Breaking Bad (Time Magazine) - You know you've done something right when you get a fawning fan letter from Hannibal Lecter. Probably the best thing you'll read all week.
10) 9 Absolutely Petrifying Places on the Internet (Mashable) - Time to start getting into the Halloween mood. While I wouldn't describe any of these as petrifying, they're certainly fuckin' creepy. Enjoy.
Video of the Week:
I was really impressed with the following video. Those of us who know a thing or two about how the system works know that fractional reserve banking and fiat currency is really just a scam and that we all more or less agree to an arbitrary value of our paper currency. John Q. Public is completely ignorant of this system and never even questions it. I think that's because it never gets adequately and plainly explained. That's where this video comes in. It has a clear political bias (pro-Hayek/anti-Keynes), but whether you agree with that view or not, I defy you to point out something inaccurate in the video. I'm serious; I'd really like you to watch the whole thing and tell me if you think they got something wrong. It's pretty interesting, and if you could ever get the average American to sit through it I think we'd at least begin a national dialogue (although it's arguably too late to change anything without causing a global economic collapse).
That's it for this week, you animals. Let me know what you think about this week's Bananas in the comments and have a fantastic weekend!
4) I am so sick and tired of religious nutcases. I spent more time then I should have yesterday reading about the Church of Scientology's "Gold Base" and something called "The Hole" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology) - unreal
8) If you got punished in real life for crimes committed in video games, I would be crucified for perfecting the art of taking a car and spinning out the tires on dead bodies heads to have the blood splatter all over the place in GTA V.
I just got a sell print on GOOG at $1,001.29. Congratulate me, monkeys, I'm probably the first guy you know who ever sold Google for more than a thousand dollars a share. It is a good Friday indeed.
Congrats, that is quite a exciting feat. Buy it in 2009? :)
Nope. Tuesday.
Just kidding, but I've been trading in and out of it for awhile now. The shares I sold today I picked up for $849.98 back on the 9th.
5) This have been around a long time. Some people would suggest leveling the playing field by eliminating the inheritance tax altogether.
6) The founder of a social networking site buys neighboring houses for privacy. Why not focus on making "real life" friends?
10) I am not even going to try to comment on this. The WSO hillbillies have left me covered in monkey excrement.
@Nefarious you'll need to make a video tutorial for that.
I've been living in a cave, I seriously just learned about the whole Halo tea bagging thing yesterday.
Here you go:
8) Arresting people for war crimes in games would leave no one left to guard the prisoners. Since we would all be in jail for some form or crime. You forgot to feed your tamagachi and it died? You're going to jail for animal cruelty.
Eddie, sounds like it's a good occasion to light up a victory cigar and pour yourself a large Maker's and ginger! Today is a good day!
Makers and ginger?
Might be time for me to make a post about drinking like a man.
I think some Makers and Makers sound about right.
I'm assuming that #3 is all about anti-money laundering issues. Can anyone confirm?
SAC needs to pump the breaks for a little while.
Regarding the video...one thing bothers me. When he talks about how the debt can't leave the system. As money moves through the pipes, it is taxed at almost every transaction and returned. This is how Clinton ran a surplus without the whole system blowing up, no?
Clinton Surplus you say? http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16
9) That first video "The Smiling Man", how long do you let some deranged fuck follow you before breaking their face? Seriously, I didn't read the Reddit post but I would like to think that the epic conclusion not documented in the short film was an ass beating.
@Nefarious- : you saying Jared Dillian doesn't drink like a man? ;)
Jared Dillian barely looks like a man.
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