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Funny story: Credit Crunch doesn't exist, research suggests

Credit Crunch doesn't exist, research suggests

The newspapers are all writing about it, the TV and radio stations are full of people talking about it, housewives are all chinwagging about it, and business people are all afraid of it. But new research suggests that the popular Credit Crunch is...

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Funny story: Building Society Near Collapse Hits Howard Hard

Building Society Near Collapse Hits Howard Hard

The near collapse of the Halifax Building Society this week has had a big effect on bespectacled employee Howard Thingy this week. The employee who was plucked from the obscurity of cashiers desk to become a singing sensation for the many tedious...

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Funny story: Bush Eats Lobster with African Tribal Chieftain While Wall Street Crumbles!

Bush Eats Lobster with African Tribal Chieftain While Wall Street Crumbles!

In between the crumbling of Lehman Bros. and the chopping block auction of AIG, W had a dinner dance at the White House for Ghana's President with Lobster and ginger Lamb. After the feasting and waltzing, the 100 celebrity couples were entertained in...

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Funny story: Chuckle Brothers To Take Over Running Of British Government

Chuckle Brothers To Take Over Running Of British Government

Plans are being put in place for a dissolution of the Labour-led British government, and the formation of an emergency committee to run the country led by TV funnymen, the Chuckle Brothers. Barry and Paul Elliot, of Rotherham, are two comedians be...

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Funny story: Obama Economic Policy: Cook the Books, Blame Republicans!

Obama Economic Policy: Cook the Books, Blame Republicans!

Washington,DC/TheSpoof.com - Presidential candidate Barack Obama displayed his superb culinary capabilities with his deft new recipe to explain the Double Fannie /Freddie Cheese Melt...And it's a WHOPPER! Joined by Democratic financial Hi-Rollers...

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Funny story: Gerald Ratner poised to swoop on Goldman Sachs

Gerald Ratner poised to swoop on Goldman Sachs

Canary Wharf - (Northern Crock Mess): Former trailer-trash jewelery retailer Gerald Ratner is poised to swoop on investment giants Goldman Sachs after the bank's share price nosedived. Ratner, 69, famously caused the bankruptcy of his own eponymou...

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Funny story: Fed takeover of AIG ensures U.S. taxpayers are now self-insured. So watch yourself!

Fed takeover of AIG ensures U.S. taxpayers are now self-insured. So watch yourself!

Washington, DC - Try avoiding a car accident or having to file a homeowners insurance claim. Or any claim altogether for that matter, even at all personal cost to yourself or especially that of your family. As now, after the Fed takeover of AIG (the...

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Funny story: HBO's and Hobos Merge in Brave New World Depression!

HBO's and Hobos Merge in Brave New World Depression!

HBO's, Britain's largest mortgage lender appeared to be at the end of her rope as US economy tanked once again. As the American government has become the Union of Socialist States in Receivership, Britain's big, big bank looked like a goner, that is...

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Funny story: Lloyds TSB Merges With HBOS, Economist Warns Customers "Withdraw Your Savings!"

Lloyds TSB Merges With HBOS, Economist Warns Customers "Withdraw Your Savings!"

Lloyds TSB is to merge with the troubled HBOS, creating a banking giant that will hold almost a third of UK customers' savings and mortgages. Economists have reacted by advising investors to immediately withdraw their savings from the new company.

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Funny story: Lehman Brothers too small and sound to save, says Fed

Lehman Brothers too small and sound to save, says Fed

New York, New York - Negotiations broke down between Lehman Brother representatives and that of the feds for a federal bailout when the accounting books disclosed that Lehman Bothers did not qualify under the Bush's "Too Big to Fail" economic doctrin...

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Funny story: Bush's "Too Big to Fail" economic doctrine rescues another Wall Street Titian: [insert name here]

Bush's "Too Big to Fail" economic doctrine rescues another Wall Street Titian: [insert name here]

Washington, DC - Be it Bear Sterns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or even AIG, the word on Wall Street is that the Feds are willing to go along with the new economic model of privatizing the profits while socializing the liability to Main Street. Once agai...

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Funny story: Top Government Officials Take One For the Team

Top Government Officials Take One For the Team

President Bush has implemented a new policy, which includes no persons of the United States Government Top Officials shale own any assets over $500, 000.00 during any economic hardship. Also included in this policy are provisions that state, all off...

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Funny story: New York City financial district physically moved to the White House front lawn by house movers

New York City financial district physically moved to the White House front lawn by house movers

New York, New York - Thousands of employees in New York City's finacial district woke up this morning to find that their buildings in which they work had been moved to the front lawn of the White House. House movers relocated the entire financial dis...

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Funny story: Good news as scientists create wondrous economic breakthrough

Good news as scientists create wondrous economic breakthrough

The world's financial markets breathed a sigh of relief when Professor Hugh Jarse revealed his latest creation. "By injecting genes from a bank safe into a pig foetus I have managed to create actual 'Piggy Banks'." said Professor Jarse. "You ca...

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Funny story: Fast food chain to open a bank

Fast food chain to open a bank

With the recent collapse of Lehman Brothers and the credit crunch McDonalds have decide to combine takeaway food and banking. The idea is that the more junk food that people buy will save them money on purchasing food. This money can then be direc...

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Funny story: Pelosi Apologizes for Charlie Rangel, Torches Administration for Economic Woes!

Pelosi Apologizes for Charlie Rangel, Torches Administration for Economic Woes!

Washington DC/Washington Post - Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, third in line for the Presidency, made light of Rep. Charles Rangel's recent tax avoidance problems. "This is not an ethical problem," she pronounced," this is a racial pr...

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Funny story: Bank Holds Customers To Ransom

Bank Holds Customers To Ransom

In a turnaround of events, a bank in Oxford Street today held up multi-millionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson. Eyewitnesses said that all was normal until he (Sir Richard) reached the front of the queue, when suddenly the bank manager appeare...

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