Chuck Norris and the Financial Crisis

If you like Chuck Norris jokes and follow the current financial crisis news, then this is for you!  My personal favorites are “Chuck Norris doesn’t mark-to-market. The market marks to Chuck Norris.” and ” Chuck Norris thinks Credit Crunch is a breakfast cereal.”

  • Chuck Norris can borrow at the discount window
  • Chuck Norris can sell $300bln in high yield loans before lunch
  • Chuck Norris’s curves are never inverted
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t hedge . He waits.
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t target inflation. He roundhouse-kicks it until it begs for mercy.
  • The Chuck Norris dollar buys 3 Canadian dollars, and trades at parity with the euro.
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t supply collateral, only collateral damage.
  • The tears of Chuck Norris would supply enough liquidity to solve the credit crisis. Too bad he never cries.
  • When the yield on a Chuck Norris bond goes up, the price also rises.
  • Chuck Norris trades on fear and greed simultaneously.
  • Alan Greenspan calls Chuck Norris “The Maestro.”
  • Chuck Norris has already banked his dividend payment from Northern Rock Plc.
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t borrow at the Fed’s discount window. Chuck Norris LENDS at the Fed’s discount window.
  • There is no market regulator. Just a list of securities Chuck Norris allows to be traded.
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t buy gold to hedge against inflation. Gold buys Chuck Norris to hedge against inflation.
  • Chuck Norris charges the Bank of England a penalty rate for borrowing – And guarantees its deposits.
  • Chuck Norris gets ALL of his funding from the asset-backed commercial paper market.
  • Chuck Norris doesn’t mark-to-market. The market marks to Chuck Norris.
  • When the U.S. economy sneezes, the world catches a cold. When Chuck Norris sneezes, the U.S. economy catches pneumonia.
  • Chuck Norris thinks Credit Crunch is a breakfast cereal.
  • Chuck Norris isn’t a market maker; he IS the market.
  • Chuck Norris subprime collateralized debt obligations still trade at 100 percent of face value.

Thanks, BJ!

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