Go, Economy!

[Josh]

I have FOUR cans of beans in the pantry. In the future I will be rich!

[TODE]

or gassy.

[Seik]

I've been blaming the economy as a scapegoat for all my problems in life. Anyone else?

[Doc Holliday]

This damn economy gave me the clap. If I had been able to afford top dollar whores, I wouldn't be in this mess!

[Bojack]

This damn economy gave me the clap. If I had been able to afford top dollar whores, I wouldn't be in this mess!

It's getting so bad you can't afford rubbers??!?!?! Fuckles that's bad.

[Tones]

In the past he would just buy virgins.

[Gooch]

Ed Balls, the PM's closest ally, warns that downturn is ferocious and says impact will last 15 years.

In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the economic downturn, Ed Balls even predicted that its effects would still be felt 15 years from now. The Schools Secretary's comments carry added weight because he is a former chief economic adviser to the Treasury and regarded as one of the Prime Ministers's closest allies.

Mr Balls said yesterday: "The reality is that this is becoming the most serious global recession for, I'm sure, over 100 years, as it will turn out."

He warned that events worldwide were moving at a "speed, pace and ferocity which none of us have seen before" and banks were losing cash on a "scale that nobody believed possible".

The minister stunned his audience at a Labour conference in Yorkshire by forecasting that times could be tougher than in the depression of the 1930s, when male unemployment in some cities reached 70 per cent. He also appeared to hint that the recession could play into the hands of the far right.

"The economy is going to define our politics in this region and in Britain in the next year, the next five years, the next 10 and even the next 15 years," Mr Balls said. "These are seismic events that are going to change the political landscape. I think this is a financial crisis more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s, and we all remember how the politics of that era were shaped by the economy."

Philip Hammond, the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said Mr Balls's predictions were "a staggering and very worrying admission from a cabinet minister and Gordon Brown's closest ally in the Treasury over the past 10 years". He added: "We are being told that not only are we facing the worst recession in 100 years, but that it will last for over a decade – far longer than Treasury forecasts predict."

[Rumpy]

haha, Ed Balls.

[Doc Holliday]

Wall Street Weeee!

[Gooch]

Back to 1997 levels. The buy-and-hold proponents are learning the hard way.