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Some Weekend Fun

Generali
Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
From the WSJ via the always excellent FT Alphaville:

http://projects.wsj.com/games/thefederator/?mg=inert-wsj

Can you get unemployment under control while keeping inflation from kicking off as you drop $$$ from your helicopter. Play as Helicopter Ben (aka The Bernank) in some QE fueled fun.

NB: No Fed Officials were harmed in the making of this game.

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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    PS You know you're middle aged when you find out a You Tube video has 100,000,000 views via the FT:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    Generali wrote: »
    PS You know you're middle aged when you find out a You Tube video has 100,000,000 views via the FT:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

    That's the last time I click on a Generali link. My head, my head! That bl**dy tune will be going round it all day now.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    That's the last time I click on a Generali link. My head, my head! That bl**dy tune will be going round it all day now.

    Years I reckon. It's not even made the news yet 'Gangnam Style'. It's the next Crazy Frog I reckon.

    Nyan, nyan nyan nyan....
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    "Some Weekend Fun"

    You got me all excited for a moment there.

    You could be 'done' under the trades description act for that headline !!! :eek:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Masomnia
    Masomnia Posts: 19,506 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    9% unemployment and 2.7% inflation is the best I can muster. And my beard isn't as nice :(
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,379 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Generali wrote: »
    PS You know you're middle aged when you find out a You Tube video has 100,000,000 views via the FT:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

    Wow - they even do virtual acid these days :tongue:
    I think....
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    Masomnia wrote: »
    9% unemployment and 2.7% inflation is the best I can muster. And my beard isn't as nice :(

    I got 8% and 2.3% respectively. And I don't like having a beard at all.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Generali wrote: »
    Some Weekend Fun

    Obviously the meaning of "fun" is different in Australia.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
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