The Education Of Donald Luskin
Housing, Job Data Signal Recovery, Not Recession
7/25/2008
By Donald Luskin
Hello, investors! Is the glass half empty? Or is the glass half full?
The way the stock market dropped Thursday, you’d think the glass was downright empty. In fact you’d think the empty glass had been dropped to the pavement from the top of the Empire State Building. In fact, you’d think it had fallen into a boiling hot volcano. That’s how empty you’d think that glass was.
Trampled by a big fat elephant. But I still think there’s more than one way to look at the economy and the market. Here’s how I see it:
Let’s say you have a hundred dollars, and then eighty dollars catches fire and burns up. Now you have twenty dollars. But here’s where it gets interesting: Add just 20% to that hundred dollars and now you have forty dollars. You’ve just doubled your money. (See chart at right.)
It also works the other way, as with Thursday’s stock crash. If you compare the stock market to August 6, 2003, it’s up by around 2,000 points. Would you call that an empty glass? (See chart at left.)
As for me, I just have to go with the facts, not the fantasies. Bull market ahoy!
Think We’re In a Recession? Head to Disneyland.
8/8/2008
By Donald Luskin
Sure, when I wrote here several weeks ago that I didn’t see any evidence of recession during my trip to a high-end Hawaii resort, I opened myself up for criticism that I wasn’t really looking at the typical vacation experience of ordinary middle-class people. Well, here I am at Disneyland, and let me tell you: Mobs of people are lining up to spend money in America, sometimes for an hour at a time!
Booming business sectors in America include aerospace, railroads, marine architecture, zoology, souvenirs, and miniature performance automobiles. Weaker is alternative energy, including wind propulsion, specifically in the piracy sector.
When I talked about this on CNBC this week, one of the usual perma-bears tried to dismiss it, but evidence says that perma-bears should eat a big bowl of dicks. Heh heh.
The Worst Recession Since the Depression? No Way.
8/22/08
By Donald Luskin
So economist-of-the-hour Nouriel Roubini predicted the so-called ‘bursting’ of the so-called ‘real estate bubble.’ Big whoop — wasn’t he wrong until the prediction came so-called ‘true’? Funny how you don’t hear much anymore about Roubini running around predicting things that haven’t happened.
Now Roubini says “we are in a recession, and denying it is nonsense.” Not only that, but it is going to be “the worst since the Great Depression.” Gack! Gack! Pardon me for barfing.
Let’s get in touch with an old friend of mine who I like to call ‘reality.’ The official determination of recessions is made by a committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, not by hoity-toity airy-fairies with their binkum-buncombe and hocus-pocus. I’m talking about objective standards here, not some Mickey Mouse fantasyland.
Hey stopped-clock Roubini, I guess if you say the same thing enough times, it will eventually be true. Haw haw! Too bad about your face, which looks like someone’s ass.
Fannie, Freddie Bailout Should Be Good for the Market
9/12/08
By Donald Luskin
Whew, color me relieved. This sudden and unpredicted financial panic ought to be over within a week. More troubling: Before the takeover, these companies were worth $11 billion. The next day they’re supposedly bankrupt? I’ve seen a lot of things, but I’ve never seen money just disappear into thin air.
I’d call my lawyer if I were you. What if the government expropriators next decide to seize healthy companies like Lehman Brothers?
Now is a good time to buy stocks.
Quit Doling Out That Bad-Economy Line
The Washington Post
9/14/08
By Donald Luskin
An economy in trouble? Well excu-u-use me folks, but I’m about to introduce you to a little thing that I like to call ‘reality.’ The delusional brayings of the naysaying recession Eeyores are utterly discredited by every relevant economic indicator — and that’s not just opinion; it’s ice-cold, diamond-hard fact that you can bring to the freaking bank at full flounce with your flip-flops flapping, any ding-dang day. Let me be plain: If this is a recession, I’ll eat dead goat anus.
Ha ha! O triumph eternal, O fortes Fortuna adiuvat. Ha ha! Wait, look, I’m Paul Krugman: “Doy, dime dupid.” Hey Paul, I’m you: “Dey dive me da Dobel Prize in Eck-nomics,” Ha ha! How d’you like me now? How d’you like me now? Boo-yah. You talkin’ ta me? You talkin’ ta me? Mama said knock you owwwt. Mama said knock you owwwt.
Whee! Nothing can go wrong now! Ha ha! Since you are about to die, Mr. Bond, I might as well tell you all about my plan. Ha ha! Dear Acme Co., Please send item #33527-02, “Ramjet-Propelled Kangaroo Costume with Flammable Glue Cannon.” Ha ha! Say, one thing this mountain stronghold could really use is a red LED timer marked ‘initiate self-destruct sequence.’ Don’t worry, it isn’t loaded. Don’t worry honey, I’m a good driver. Hey ev’rybody wartch this, hyuk-hyuk! Twelve…ice-cream…cakes! O Zeus,
The All-giver,
Dweller in the darkness of cloud,
I do advise McCain and thus,
Thy name do I forsake,
In pride of myself and kings.
Woo! I’m Rick James, bitch. Woo! I’m Rick James, bitch. Bow-chicka-bow-wow.
In conclusion, this economy is sound, sound, sound, folks, and remember I said so, because if I’m wrong, I vow that I will literally stick this flare gun up my ass and pull the trigger. Signed, Donald Luskin, L-u-s-k-i-n. Flare gun, baby! P.S. Krugman can eat a piping hot Thermos of dicks. kthxbai
Via C-Span, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), chairman of the House Capital Markets Subcommittee:
“I was there when the secretary and the chairman of the Federal Reserve came those days and talked to members of Congress about what was going on… Here’s the facts. We don’t even talk about these things.
“On Thursday [September 18], at about 11 o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States, to a tune of $550 billion being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened its window to help. They pumped $105 billion into the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks.
They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts, and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic, and there… And that’s what actually happened. If they had not done that, their estimation was that by two o’clock that afternoon, five-and-a-half trillion dollars would have been drawn out of the money market system of the United States, would have collapsed the entire economy of the United States, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.”
“It would have been the end of our political system and our economic systems as we know it.”
Washington Tries to Clean Up Mess It Created
9/19/08
By Donald Luskin
O hai!
Wow, did I get it really right or really wrong last week? Wow, it seems like a million years ago, and who can really say which way is up after the crazy, nutty ride we had?
Wow, say, on the one hand, the market is in a death spiral thanks to the government and its interference in the free market. Let’s get serious though: This could be the bottom, and do you know what’s about to happen? The market is going to spring right back, and just like always, the government idiot swine looters will take credit.
Can you believe those idiot swine looters, with the idiocy? Market outlook: rising.
Stocks Long for Vote of Confidence
10/24/2008
By Donald Luskin
I think that Obama is wrong for the economy in every way, and I will not be voting for him. Furthermore, his very presence as a candidate has been causing the stock market to crash. Just look at the stock market. Need I say more?
On the other hand, he is probably going to win the election, and so if there is to be a bull market, it must rise even while Obama radiates ultraviolet death upon the economy. I think I have figured out a way for this to happen. Obama will make people feel confident, and they will be wrong to feel that way, but in their wrongness they will buy stocks.
I see the market rising 20% by the inauguration. Downside? Obama will take credit for it, when it was actually a totally different imaginary Obama.
Naming New Treasury Chief Will Calm Markets
11/7/2008
By Donald Luskin
After the way the stock market sold off right after Tuesday’s election — the worst post-election drop ever, as far as I know — I have devised a plan for the immediate future.
1) Obama quickly names a Treasury secretary
2) ?
3) Market rally
How to Tell When the Bear Market Is Over
11/14/08
By Donald Luskin
Hi folks. I know things seem bad right now, but what’s that behind your ear? Oh look, it’s a shiny little penny of reality. Recessions bear markets last for an average of, uh, thirteen months, and if you know anything about statistics, you know how hard it is for things to exceed an average. So it’s been thirteen months already, and so far, stocks have lost 44.2% — a third again the loss of the average bear market. Talk about bucking the odds! Here comes the bull market!
Let me define my terms. The recession began suddenly in, uh, mid-September when a motorcycle gang overran several financial firms. This was solved when the government sent mutant lizard bikers to attack the normal human bikers. While I’m glad they did, Wall Street is now menaced by mutant lizard government bikers, and that’s what we call ‘a recession.’
This bear market will be over — correction: will actually have been over for at least two calendar months — when we can look back and see that stocks have rallied at least 20% from any given low point, over at least two calendar months. You can tell there’s something wrong with this metric, but you’re not sure what. The fundamental event drivers have changed, and will change again. Pull my finger.
As the top gamblers will tell you, if black doesn’t come up for awhile on the roulette wheel, keep doubling your bet on black. Thirteenth month, baby. Market goin’ up.
It’s official: Recession since Dec. ’07
12/01/2008NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the state of the economy .
[…]
Some suggested that the best case scenario for the economy is that it would reach bottom in the second quarter of 2009. And even if that happens, that would still make this recession the longest since the Great Depression.
Oh cripes, I have to write a column.
Recession Claim Overblown
12/12/2008
By Donald Luskin
Do you believe everything you read in the media? If you do, then maybe words like ‘recession’ seem to change the fundamentals of the… After all, since 2007 with the heh. Pff.
I’m Excited About Buying Stocks
12/12/2008
By Donald Luskin
That’s good. No.
Despite the Recent Unpleasantness, I’m Excited About Buying Stocks
12/12/2008
By Donald Luskin
Have you ever been caught between a rock and a hard place? But some hard places aren’t really so hard. One example is oh god this is so not going to fly.
Institutional Investors Stumped by Market
12/12/2008
By Donald Luskin
Welp, let’s just tread water this week.
Do you ever wonder what the super-elite A-list investors really think? I can tell you that because the super-elite A-list investors are my clients. One of them thinks one thing, and another thinks something else, and so on from one to the next. Their thinking is different from each other, is what I’m saying.
But what do I think? Well, I’ll tell you. There are three great times to buy stocks. When the market is hot, then wow, that’s a great time to buy stocks, because they’re hot and going up. Similarly, buying stocks is what you want to do when the market is low, because where are they going to go, down? Of course not, they’re going to go up. The third time is when Paul Krugman is reading this line and you tell him to gargle a canteen of dicks. If you’re not Paul Krugman, stick to the first two.
My prediction for the market? Falling. Ha ha just kidding, it’s likely to go bull.
Current Recession Is No Great Depression
12/19/2008
By Donald Luskin
I’ve been complaining for years about how excessively pessimistic everyone has been about the economy and the stock market. But I have to admit, now that the economy is in recession and the stock market has taken a serious hit, all the pessimism is serving some useful purposes. For instance, look at all the super deals you can get on stocks!
Also, you may have noticed the revisionist claims about the Great Depression that have been concocted by right-wing ideologues. These are true and are gaining in credibility every day, proving that we are not facing another Great Depression and also inspiring people to buy stocks, which is pushing the market upwards.
Also, people are just plain tired of selling stocks and feel like doing something else with their stocks for a change, i.e. in the stock market, i.e. buying them.
So as you see, we are heading for a market rally. When stocks have moved somewhat higher a month or two from now, we can stop and reappraise, but I say buy.
Safe Landing a Good Omen for the Economy
1/16/2009
By Donald Luskin
Bailouts ahoy! Good thing, too — but if only the government would give financial firms free money without expecting anything in return, I would worry less about creeping socialism.
Thursday’s lows were a successful test of the November bottom in stocks — or in other words, if you make a graph with nothing but November’s historic lows and Thursday’s sharp drop in stocks, it looks like stocks are going up. If so, pop the champagne because we’re in a new bull market.
The Stimulus Placebo Effect
1/30/09
By Donald Luskin
The so-called stimulus is as bad and crazy as the New Deal! How can spending money on roads and schools possibly help the economy? Some economists argue that you could pay people to dig holes in the dirt and fill them up again, and that would be perfectly adequate to bring the country out of recession. But I don’t see how that’s different than paying people to stand still and do nothing. And paying people to stand still and do nothing is simply charity. Welfare. The dole. Is that supposed to get us out of recession?
Then again, if enough people believe it will work, then maybe it will work, except just in an imaginary way and not because it’s smart or correct. Or maybe it will destroy us all. If those are the choices, then is this really a chance that’s wise to take?
Actually, let’s get real. The economy isn’t in any great emergency, and if the Republicans succeed in derailing this zany bill, we’re going bullish — so buy stocks while they’re low.
Fixing the Banks Should Be Job No. 1
2/6/2009
By Donald Luskin
Hi, me again. My God, what a huge, ugly mess government has caused by interfering with the perfect wisdom of the unregulated market. What an appalling ruin it has strewn.
Obama’s bank rescue plan ought to be a lot like Bush’s. I hope so, because I’m all about shoveling tons of free tax money onto the banks and letting them spend it on hookers and blow, if that’s what our titans of finance choose to do with the money that is rightfully theirs.
And what a time for a recovery! For believe it or not, things look really good right now for a new ba-ba-ba-bull market, going ba-ba-ba-boom! Like goin’ up and not comin’ down, is just like the beat without the sound, no sound, to the beat-beat, ya do the freak, everybody just rock and dance to the beat. An’ have you ever went over a friend’s house to eat,
And the food just aint no good?
I mean the macaroni’s soggy, the peas are mush,
And the chicken it tastes like wood?
So you try to play it off like you think you can,
By sayin’ that you’re full —
And then your friend says, Momma, he’s just being polite;
He ain’t finished, uh-uh, that’s bull.
But it all depends on next week. Geithner has to decide. Is he going to save the world? Or is he going to destroy it? Make no mistake, that’s what this is about. Credit makes the world go around. It’s as critical to modern life as electricity.
If Geithner acts wisely the lights will stay on. If he doesn’t, the lights will go out.
I’m betting he gets it right. But face it: This is a moment of truth.
frist!
I need to comment first, before my head splodey.
We’re fucked.
Thank goddess, you’re still alive!
[oh crap,I’m still formatting the post. Hang on…]
I want to apologize for the frist thingie. I promise to never do that again. I just could think of anything else at the moment.
I want to apologize for the frist thingie. I promise to never do that again. I just could think of anything else at the moment.
After 700 comments about music and way too much Conservative Observer, that’s perfectly understandable.
The Bold, new look of Sadly,No!
I’m not a big music person, never have been. I don’t know why. The 700 comments was intimidating though. So I read instead the post over on Crooked Timber by Henry on the mini controversy Between Krugman, Clive Crook and Tyler Cowen. That was interesting. This Luskin character… my god what a blithering idiot he is.
” … if it is bad, then stocks may not have to fall much further, but they’ll still deliver lousy returns for the next year or so. Why take any risk at all, just in case things turn out even worse than expected?
What could be worse? ”
When ever a wingnut says “what could be worse” run.
I’m convinced. Where do I go to buy these imaginary “stocks” w/ my imaginary “money?”
Hah! Knew that’d work– THREADSLAYAH!
Holy crap, this one will require some serious scrutiny before weighing in semi-unintelligently, so it must be bedtime.
Holy shit. Somebody pays this guy to write columns?
Most frightening of all is the realization that the Canadian PM must have been following Luskin, because in September his speeches were littered with “What recession?” and “now’s a good time to buy stocks, they’re a steal.”
I suppose there’s no chance this asshole invested with Madoff?
Stellar take down, as usual Gavin. I don’t suppose “smart money” would print it.
Really though, Donald Luskin is in good company as this story demonstrates.
I wish I could be wrong so often and still keep my job. Heh, that would be sweet.
I like this bold shit- makes everything we say look very exciting and important.
Well, not to belabor the obvious, but everything I type is very exciting & important w/o trickery. (And often redundant.)
Well, it seems that now might be a good time to buy some stock!
As long as Mr. Luskin is getting his commission, the best time to buy stock is now, as well as tomorrow, also.
I wish I could be wrong so often and still keep my job. Heh, that would be sweet.
Well, the trick is to pick a job for which there is no pesky oversight board like, say, the American Bar Association; or one in which you may inadvertently kill your clients, like medicine, and then have to face litigious family members; or rat catcher, where if you kick back too long the rats start nibbling your toes; or bus driver or airplane pilot, where your miscalculations not only are going to get you maimed or killed but also wind up on the evening news. So that pretty much leaves politician and media personality.
Corporate executive is another possibility.
Based on this story, I’m investing in dick commodities.
Oh wait, we already have a surplus.
Maybe if we package Kudlow with Deutsch we can make a couple of worthless commodities look like a good deal. I better get the team on this.
Bulls Away!
I’d love to see this clown in stocks. I think we really need to bring those back. The wooden ones with holes for the wrists and neck, that is. If we as a nation invested in that sort of stocks, heavily, like lining the National Mall with them, and made them the punishment for being a media asshat who is always wrong, we’d be waaaaaayyyyyyy better off.
Oh, yeah. They get to be the sentence for douchenozzle politicians, too. Baskets of rotting veggies for all!
Sigh. Sweet reverie, a man can dream, can he not?
In fact, you’d think it had fallen into a boiling hot volcano. That’s how empty you’d think that glass was.
Empty? You call that ’empty’? When I were a lad, we had glasses that were so empty that we had to hold them under a running tap for 20 minutes just to get the sides wet. But you didn’t hear us complaining, mainly because our throats were too dry.
Amazing, isn’t it? And he gets away with it, year after year. He’s turned being a moron into a lucrative career.
I wish I could be wrong so often and still keep my job. Heh, that would be sweet.
Try the Securities Exchange Commission. They prize incompetence almost as much as moral bankruptcy.
I’d love to see this clown in stocks.
If stocks aren’t possible, how about rainbow toe socks and short pants. Every day for the rest of his life.
I’d prefer not to have to remove my eyes with an impromptu spork.
I suppose the double wetsuit reference goes here.
Who the fuck is Luskin’s audience? Why haven’t they lynched him yet?
Yeah, he’s dead-on about this being a great time to buy stocks – if you get the ones with all the ornate lettering & fancy-ass graphics, I hear they make real pretty wallpaper.
Donald Luskin is the Bill Kristol of Wall Street!
TL;DR
The goal is for Wall Street to get all of your tax dollars. Obama and Bush play “good cop” and “bad cop.” If you are distracted by their antics, you may not pay attention to what’s really going on.
Wall Street paid the single largest chunk for Obama’s inauguration party. Wall Street was also the single largest contributor to Obama’s campaign.
Obama supports Bush torture policy, at least according to the ACLU in recent news.
Obama’s Treasury Secretary is a tax evader.
If you believe that Obama is a legitimate alternative to crime in government, you are very seriously self-deluded.
I suspect that if they have been listening to him. they likely can’t afford the rope.
Boring trollery; DR.
They could build monuments to this guy’s stupidity.
This bear market will be over — correction: will have been over
Now is a good time to buy stocks.
Market outlook: rising.
Market goin’ up.
3) Market rally
Here in Canada, we have a Prime Minister who thinks this way.
Marvelous takedown. You could do the exact same thing for the Snowy Kudload’s wishful and cherubic optimism (the Bush Boom! Stellar economy!) in his columns at Townhall and it would almost be identical. It’s astounding that these shameless shills have readers, it’s even more disturbing to know these financial morons have fucking clients, no less A-listers—so much for the wise Invisible Fist of the free market in consultants. In some ways, Donald Luskin is as much a fraud as Bernie Madoff, he just can’t be prosecuted for it.
His audience is the usual dupes of the Church of Free Market Triumphalism.
I dunno about this bold thing.
Every comment looks like a stern e-mail.
I suspect that if they have been listening to him. they likely can’t afford the rope.
I believe justme has won the thread.
It’ll be a recession in a couple of months when they can pin it on Obama with a straight face.
Badoodle-boo-yeah, loony libs! This cat is stealing my schtick!
“Empty? You call that ‘empty’? When I were a lad, we had glasses that were so empty that we had to hold them under a running tap for 20 minutes just to get the sides wet. But you didn’t hear us complaining, mainly because our throats were too dry.”
Where have you hidden the other three Yorkshiremen?
It really has reached the point where Teh Stoopid is firmly in charge and all efforts to kill it are rendered moot by the fact that the people making the decisions ARE The Stoopid.
The mind reels at the prospect of these idiots running a 7-Eleven, let alone the global economy.
Gavin, this is one of your finest columns.
You took the “give them enough rope and they’ll hang themselves” one step further.
You gave Luskin enough rope to tie himself up, lash himself to the yard-arm, keel-haul himself AND then hang himself!
My hat’s off to you. I thought I committed coup by taking Howard Kurtz down today on a similar topic, but I am humbled by the magnificence of this skewering.
I think he’s getting his device directly from the e*trade commercial baby, who he keeps in a Snuggly close to his erratic heartbeat. When his heart starts palpitating faster and more irregularly than the beat from a herd of stampeding gazelles, the baby knows it’s time to BUY BUY BUY!
Luskin’s cup is not half empty, it’s overflowing with FAIL. I’m very bullish on Luskin’s FAIL futures, too.
Gavin, the date is wrong on one of the entries. It references the election but is listed as 10/7/2008. I think it should be 11/7/2008, no?
Just saying–
Bush gives fist bump as farewell to official photographer
The Education of Donald Luskin: the Prequel
Luskin:
Most of what you hear about economics is a lie. No, seriously. I should know. Economic statistics are useless, unless they say what you want to believe. Believe that increasing trade deficits are good, and don’t believe statistics that indicate increasing unemployment. The coming BOOM will solve the problem of the federal deficit, and the harder you clap the BOOMIER it will be. Clap! Clap, I say!
Thanks — let me go look…
Fixed. Thanks for noticing; that was a meaningful fuck-up. Aiee.
Oh, oh, oh, I get it: Donald Luskin is the leading candidate for the open NTY op/ed slot! Krugman’s had his chance, it’s Luskin Time! I’m clapping. Clapping as hard as I can.
Oh, and I’m thinking I should put all my pennies right here:
http://www.trendmacro.com
Oooops, wait, what’s this? The only thing they invest in is InTrade futures and political op/ed pieces? Well, okay, then, I’m sure they get a handsome rate of return from those activities.
9353 FTW.
Luskin, Luskin, bo-buskin
Banana-fana fo-Fuskin
Fee-fi-mo-Muskin
Luskin!
Yup. I read a recent article of Luskin’s, and not knowing his history as a journalist, made the snap judgment that he was another tapdancing capitalist, madly shuffling away to keep people from looking at the rot behind the curtain. Thanks for presenting his whole floor show.
Here in Canada, we have a Prime Minister who thinks this way.
Well, to be more fair to the Smirking Corpse than he really deserves, our economy is only sort of floating lazily on the water in the upside-down porcelain fountain, instead of long since down the pipe and halfway to the sewage treatment plant. I mean, hell, we’ve got currently the safest banks in the world (which is, admittedly, sort of like saying you live in the safest neighbourhood in Detroit, but still), so it ain’t completely the end of the world as we know it up here.
The fact that the almost total implosion of the US economy has not sent Canada into a death spiral of penury and devastation is actually the most optimism-inspiring thing that has happened yet this decade, I think.
If the US economy could somehow be surgically resected from the finances of the rest of the world, this’d all be sorta funny from where I’m sitting…
Has Luskin had a bad coke habit like Kudlow?
First of all, I just want to say that the first several chapters of this post were very funny. I’m looking forward to finishing it, possibly this Summer if I can get a couple of weeks off.
Secondly, I would like to highly recommend:
A. that you employ an editor
B. that you refrain from writing when you are at the peak of your manic cycle
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This is the usual awesome expected from Gavin.
Gavin, your post belongs on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Really.
I’m gonna print it out and read it again. I need the laughs. Thank You.
“give them enough rope and they’ll hang themselves”
GIVE them the rope? Did you miss the memos about the corrosive effects of charity? The whole idea was to sell them the rope, and as justme pointed out, the rope futures market is rather flat at the moment.
The whole idea was to sell them the rope
*shrug*
I’m a liberal.
Where have you hidden the other three Yorkshiremen?
They all seem to be on the next thread, bickering about penis size.
Everything I need to know about economics I learned from my poop.
This post is fucking hilarious. I wish it never ended and I am sad that I can never read it for the first time again.
The term “thinks” may be overly generous. The man appears in public about twice a year for a good reason – he’s both repulsive & a dimwit. I’m heartbroken that the Liberals & NDP haven’t thrown him out on his ass yet. We too have jellyfish for opposition parties.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Harper was a devout fan of Luskin. Oh, cruel fate – if only he’d had the majority he needed last year to radically deregulate our banking industry like he wanted to – just think what exciting fun Canada would be having right now!
So, I, uh, heard there’s no trolls in this thread? Long posts scare them, I guess.
Luskin is a cutie, ain’t he?
You know, I tend to be a fan of the receding-hairline-brunet-with-glasses look, but Luskin’s head looks a balloon with a face drawn on it.
You forgot the part where there was still enough left over to make a macramé tea cozy, a comfy hammock for his porch, and allow an entire kindergarten class to double-dutch jump rope simultaneously.
TYP,
And let’s not forget the Scout troop looking to build the rope bridge over the Snake River Canyon!
After the economic collapse – martial law.
Good times…for fascists.
The only way I can explain Luskin getting a forum anywhere is that there really is a conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid.
Than you thank you thank you for taking the time to expose the cretin that is Luskin. Thank you.
Luskin’s head looks a balloon with a face drawn on it.
If he were as smart as a balloon that would just about nail it.
And let’s not forget the Scout troop looking to build the rope bridge over the Snake River Canyon!
St00pid Boy Scouts, why can’t they just jump it in a rocket-powered motorcycle.
I wonder if Luskin has invested in torch-and-pitchfork futures.
Too bad you can’t ask the Chicago City Comptroller about that…
Well, Duh!
Is this the same Donald Luskin that engaged in a several-years-long war of attrition with the Light Blue Satan, resulting in several hilariously futile attempts to out the notorious Atrios? Because if he is the same person, I didn’t think, until reading this post, that he could be more thoroughly punked. Bravo.
Too bad you can’t ask the
Chicago City ComptrollerCoalition Provisional Authority about that…WordPress willing, FTFY
Just remember: pallets of bills, totally unaccounted for. C-5s full of cash.
this post? this post, genius. thank you for the genius post.
after watching a clip of the CNBC financial brain trust interviewing Roubini and Nassim the other day, I wasn’t sure if your portrayal of Luskins “advice” was satire or not… looks like you took a serious look at what passes for “expert advice”… you sir, have done the country a service.
Wow! This guy Luskin is a whack job.
Sadly, there are people who read Smart Money for financial advice. It’s not like Luskin only wrote for The Washington Times or The Weekly Standard. “Smart” Money put this idiot in print month after excruciatingly wrong month. And that was after he revealed what an ignorant fool he was by going up against Krugman and being completely discredited. I recommend you submit this to Dumb Monkey as a cover story on how not to report on the economy. They owe to their readers.
I got here from a link from Digby. She thinks very highly of this piece as well. Great job.
Now, I suppose I really should go do some work this morning….
My god, did you drop some Sugarhill AND 9353 in the same column? A man of parts!
The ideas presented here are, for the most part, so wrong-headed that when taken at their opposite would be rather consistently close to the truth. It is absolutely amazing.
How on Earth can this ass-whuppin’ post not even get 100 comments while those other sluttier posts get way more?
These threads are being rigged … by ACORN! Wake Up sheeple!!1!1!@!
Too funny. If the DABA girls can get a TV and movie deal, so can you.