(Thanks to my high school pals Sri and Nick.)

Continue after the jump if you hated this video and want to complain about it in comments….

Well, since “[t]hese takes on the song are pretty played out” and “[t]his should be funnier than it is,” I’m adding some portents of economic doom to this post. See what you do, when you rain on my attempts for some end-of-day cheer, slog commenters?

1. Deflation has hit China. Global deflationary spiral, go!

2. The jobless rate in the United States is now expected to top out at 9.4%. And that isn’t counting people forced into part-time work because they cannot get enough hours, nor people who have totally given up even trying to find work.

3. Bloomberg (news, not the person) declares we’re in a global Depression:

The U.S. economyโ€™s vital signs may not confirm a diagnosis of depression. The symptoms increasingly point to one.

As in the Great Depression, world trade is collapsing, wealth is evaporating and the banking system is broken. Deflation is a growing threat as companies slash production, pay and prices. And leaders worldwide are having difficulty making headway in halting the self-perpetuating decline.
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That leaves the U.S. โ€” and the rest of the world economy โ€” in danger of being mired in an extended period of little or no growth, much like that which afflicted Japan during the 1990s. Eichengreen says such an outcome would be equivalent to a depression.

Sleep well! (I have an endless list of stuff I can post that will make you cry tears of blood. Think of that before bitching about insufficiently funny dancing again.)

Jonathan Golob is an actual doctor.

14 replies on “For Charles (Somewhat); More Portents of Doom!”

  1. Sorry to rain on your parade. My comment was meant to be less of a “bitching” session and more of a *shrug*. To give the guys some credit, I did watched the whole thing, they turned that motha out for a trio of whoevertheyare.

    Trust me, I’ve wanted to memorize the dance myself. I just don’t feel compelled to put it on youtube. But then I’m not likely to remix the f’d up dentist kid either.

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