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This Marketwatch headline must be a joke:
I guess the alternative could have been that 145m out of 150m are now out of work, but the markets expected 147m, so it went up.
This Marketwatch headline must be a joke:
This Marketwatch headline must be a joke:
This Marketwatch headline must be a joke:
What is with this new practice of typing old jokes in a huge font on some background image or pattern?
Me, I just download 'em as is from elsewhere.
How Stimulus Payments Work
”Ever wonder how a govt stimulus package works? This will help explain it:
It is a slow day and times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.
As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op. The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit. The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves. No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a stimulus package works.”
I have seen this before... but being an accountant I can see that every person in the joke has a $100 payable and a $100 receivable... so all have a net zero debt...
A Centurion walks into a bar and says "Give me a Martinus".
Bartender says "Don't you mean a Martini?"
Centurion says "If I wanted two I'd ask for them".
I went to the zoo the other day but there was only one animal, a small dog. It was a shih-tzu.