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BROKER BOB: The market has been a little volatile lately, but you have to know how to
play the market. With interest rates coming down there are actually more opportunities to make money in the stock market,
which is usually six months ahead of the economy. Even though my firm suffered huge losses in January the great thing
about the stock market is you can always bounce back, at least in theory - until you lose all your money. When that happens,
just jump out of a window. You only live once anyway. |
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UNKNOWN SKEPTIC: The subprime housing mess says it all. Homes, cars and other big ticket items aren't moving.
Big companies are laying off thousands of workers. Banks are getting crushed and people are losing their homes because
they can't make the payments. I'm not into nostalgia, but this sure smells like 1929 all over again. |
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COOL LEE: I don't think the economy matters as much as keeping up to date with the latest
songs on the charts. That's the music of our culture. It defines who we are. We can even find out more about ourselves by
looking deeper into the music. I notice a lot of my friends have stopped listening to the radio, which I think is tragic. If people don't pay attention to the New Kids on the Block getting back together, then this country is going to be lost.
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JENNIFER: I was wondering when the Bush economy was going to completely collapse like it is now. He's done every wrong trick in the book to make this happen, and I think it's on purpose. I think he and his banker friends want to destroy
the middle class so that everyone has to answer to the upper class. But the plan will fail. Money only works as a controlling force when everyone believes it has value. Once people recognize that money actually has no real value anymore, all the elite power trippers
will be plunging with the middle class, since middle class spending is what props up the upper class. When that happens, I'll be laughing all the way at the banks for what they have done to themselves. |
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SKULL MADISON: That's actually a very stupid question. The U.S. economy has never been an issue.
We have more money, black budgets and credit lines than God. In case you amateurs haven't figured it out yet, the game is borrow, borrow, borrow and then borrow some more. If someone thinks we owe them something, we'll just kick their ass. Whatever it takes to become the policeman of the world, let's get it done, then let's start
picking off countries one by one. |
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COLLEGE STUDENT: I think what we're seeing is the logical outcome of years of failed government policy
and poor planning on the part of most Americans. All this time people have been borrowing money, they should have been saving
money and building equity. What's gonna happen now, I think, is the government is gonna try every contrived thing they know
to create the appearance of economic recovery. But when it becomes obvious that nothing is working, then they'll just knock over
all the chess pieces and create a whole new Constitution and digital money system that locks out anyone who doesn't go along with the new fascist regime. |
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WORKER JOE: Man, all the fast food restaurants keep raising their prices. I can't even afford a cheeseburger anymore because the extra slice of cheese costs fifty cents when it should only be a penny. It's so embarrassing
ordering a plain hamburger and a small drink with no fries. I don't even go to lunch with my friends anymore because
I don't want them to think I'm such a loser. |