finance
Greekonomics
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Headline news: Canadian dollar touches new low after rise due to Greece’s economic crisis. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
And just when you thought that the economy was painfully limping back to the surface, a kick back into the hole with :
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The return of les enfants terribles
(“And we need YOUR bailout money to keep our sun-drenched lazy retirement-at-53 packages alive!! And fair or not, we will FIGHT for it!! And if you block out the sun then we will fight in the shade!”)
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Hmmm. Looks like I found another usage for this phrase, already a part of the urban dictionary with implications as varied as irrational argument-wins to male testosterone reclamation to phrase uttered during male orgasm http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=this%20is%20sparta (should you care to see its other meanings.)
Mine is : This is Sparta = “Just when you thought you were ‘shining’ back into the light for an economic resurfacing – a kick back into the black hole of economic woes caused by bad financial choices and practices.” (copyright (c) the gipsygeek)
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Update: Within hours of posting this – the markets took another nosedive into the well (the graph a literal plunge, 1000 points in one day!!! The Biggest in Dow Jones History.) : http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=C1
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Sidetracked Alert! For possibly the most famous kick in movie history in probably one of the most visually and artistically stunning war films ever made, something that really touches you in the core of the unshakable pride and ego and testosterone that comes with manhood, here goes:
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