The lighter side of economic catastrophe — disaster humor

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It’s true, laughter really is the best medicine. Here are some links I found funny. Tragic, but still funny. You know what they say: “It’s always funny until somebody gets hurt. Then it’s f***ing hilarious!”

The oxymoron index climbs, with my new favorite “voluntary regulation.”
Reality show, “Weekend at Bernanke’s:” Ben and Hank dress up the economy’s corpse and parade it around to convince everyone to keep partying.
From Catherine Austin Fitts Solari blog:

Mortgage backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds.

Forrest Gump explains all.
Stick figures, always a favorite. My friend Ben sends me this link. It’s as good an explanation as any.
From Calculated risk:

I went to buy a toaster… they tried to give me a bank!
Why@ ZIRP writes:

Markets will stabilize when participants stop thinking about making bets and start making investments based on the prospects of the company.

Going to be a long, long time.
From Irvine Housing Blog:

We are not powerless. Politicians are followers, not leaders. They sniff around to see which way the political wind is blowing and go that way to save their jobs. WE need to lead THEM.
Paulson bloviates: scroll down to middle of last paragraph: “bipartisan leadership.” An oxymoron if ever there was one! Anyone readers (either of you…) happen to see this? I read that Bernanke’s body language was horrible today, as if he has absolutely no idea what’s going on.
calling all new yorkers (I’ve been saying this all week as well):

“If a company needs revolving credit to meet payroll then perhaps it needs to find a new business model.”
at last, explained in terms even I can understand, charts and graphs and stuff. Good stuff: Great Crashes in History.
Used your ATM machine lately?