government intervention made sexy

[seperis]

Because if we cannot laugh at an economic death spiral, we cannot laugh at anything. Spoilers for the economic crisis! In case you were waiting for the coming movie.

Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some AssetsThat'd be Washington Mutual, for those like me who said "Who the fuck is WaMu?" We have learned today that WaMu--okay, seriously, say

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[fyrdrakken]

It's been too long since I read anything of PJ O'Rourke's, so I can't quote his lines about combat accountants now when it would actually be semi-relevant. (Actually, I just googled, and while I turned up a chapter of his book that includes a couple of usages of the phrase, I think it must have been the reference to same in a dedication or another chapter that really made an impression on me.)

[fyrdrakken]

Oh, and your description reminds me of my fave bit from any Monty Python movie, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" at the start of The Meaning of Life. Because I just can't get over the reimagining of a stodgy old British insurance company as a crew of financial pirates...

[madripoor_rose]

[fyrdrakken]

Let's say for the sake of argument that I can't view embedded vids because I'm blogging from work and don't even have speakers on my computer. (Because, I am, and don't remember to get online from home because I am 40 hours a week at work.) What were those vids of?

[madripoor_rose]

It's the entire Crimson Permanant Assurance 'corporate raiders' sketch.

[fyrdrakken]

Aw, yeah! (Something about watching those little old insurance people start making weaponry from office supplies and setting sail with an entire building...)

[seperis]

*g* Combat accountants. That works for me in so many ways.

[fyrdrakken]

Googling on the phrase turns up a lot of really interesting things, many of them leaning towards interpretations like in the IM convo you quoted from. But none of them are the bit I can't quite dredge up from memory that really isn't in that chapter I linked to.