Monday, August 8, 2011

Oh, the irony...

Ironic Times

Dow Tumbles 513 Points on Thursday
Oil, gas down; gold, ramen up.

CNN Poll Shows Congress’ Approval Now at 14%
Slightly below Al Qaeda.

Taiwan-based Foxconn, Electronics Manufacturer, Will Replace 1,000,000 Workers with Robots
Workers will be dismantled and sold for scrap.

Only 52% Give God Positive Job Approval Rating
If they had to choose today, 48% would worship “unnamed other deity.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet gold against the dollar in the early 80s.

I took a bath of $35,000 on a $50,000 purchase.

I hope the gold bugs run the price of gold up to $3,000 per troy ounce before the Treasury dumps gold on the market and crashes it again.

With any luck, all of Glenn Beck's followers will go bankrupt. At least some of them took his advice to "buy gold."

Fixer said...

Shoulda bought silver back then. Your loss woulda only been about 10%.