Comments on: Economy Go Boom

By: lauren

lauren — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:15:22 +0000

i completley agree with everything that was said. well done.

By: Tako

Tako — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:32:06 +0000

omg!!! i want those kittens!! right now!!!!!!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:18:46 +0000

beet,

i have to disagree with here. most of these banks are going under because they dallied in sub prime loans.

in nyc, where i live, there is a serious mortgage crisis in working class communities where families and older folks either bought houses with these loans or refinanced their homes using them.
This is called predatory lending, by the way.

these people are now caught in a downward spiral of rapidly adjusting interest rates and we haven’t seen the worst yet. these folks don’t have their mba’s or daddy’s pocket books to fall back on.

so i say what goes around comes around.

By: MissChessecake2008

MissChessecake2008 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:01:40 +0000

They look like sad, homeless, shelter kittens. =[

By: censorthis

censorthis — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:53 +0000

beet; the fact that you’ve now admitted to your MBA only makes you that much more fuckable in a conquest sense. guys everwhere are going to want to text their buddies the next morning to tell them what it was like plowing the fields of a true MBA that also has her own blog. i love how you don’t brag on yourself in any of your posts. you are super, super awesome and make me feel inadequate in your presence.

By: Bee Hind

Bee Hind — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:26:06 +0000

I for one, am glad you talk about other things than Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. That’s why I come here. Your rants about your former college life and the crazy things you’ve done in the past are hilarious. The dog stuff, not so much-but like you said, it is your blog and you can do what you want. I guess what I want to say is that I visit because I never know what you’ll be talking about on any given day.
And that’s what I like best about you Beet.
Thanks for the laughs.
-Bee Hind

By: AlmostChosen

AlmostChosen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:28:52 +0000

Amen – you hit this one out of the park it was so spot on – it’s really inaccurate to blame anyone on Wall Street for the correction. People should notice that the problems in the housing market really originate with the government-run GSE’s – Fannie & Freddie. Chris Dodd & his buddies should be locked up for a long time. Anyone want to hold Obama accountable for an investigation – how about BEFORE you vote? :)

By: frogirl1978

frogirl1978 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:25:17 +0000

Hi
Can I say it bothers me a little bit that you use the collective “guys” for everyone who is now losing their jobs because of the demis of the financial institutions? you said yourself you were studying for your MBA, so I assume there must have been OTHER WOMEN who studied with you and now face cirucmstances just as bad, if not worse (given sexist hiring practices, increased time to promotion for women, and the need for two incomes in a family).

Maybe they didn’t feed you chocolate, but I am sure they deserve your appeal for sympathy just as much as the guys.

By: MW

MW — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:18:23 +0000

Um, so they aren’t assholes until you bang them? Um, ok. And will you please decide whether or not you want to be skinny or fat once and for all and leave us out of it? Thanks.

By: quirkygirlkitten

quirkygirlkitten — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:31:21 +0000

um, yeah…they don’t get my sympathy just because they bought you drinks and told you you were cute. that’s all swell and everything, but the reality is these guys are not innocent. they knew they were pushing loans that could not be repaid, etc. and yet they did it in order to keep the money rolling in. do you honestly think they lost one minute’s sleep worrying that people would lose their homes because of this shady dealing? but now it is hitting them in their bank accounts. it hurts when chickens come home to roost, huh?

By: me

me — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:03:54 +0000

Obviously, the majority of these douchebags who think that anyone who works in the financial field is a cold hearted, evil capitalist who deserves the worst is retarded. Not everyone who works in finance is in a position to earn comissions or just take your money and give you nothing in return. Some of these people are analysts who have to sit in front of numbers day after day and deserve credit just for not losing their minds. Fuck that. I back you up on that Beet.

By: censorthis

censorthis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:02:33 +0000

i meant to tell you beet, but the sweet and adorable kitties in the photo made me so happy. while i was caught in my moment of happiness it reminded me of an article i read about a satanist group in russia that was just caught after stabbing three teenagers 666 times and then cooking and eating them. our planet just gets better and better and better. i’ve got to run and buy the world a coke.