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Hey, America: You Lost $1.3 Trillion!

Feeling poorer lately? You are! A new government report says that $1.3 trillion dollars of American wealth was vaporized in the first quarter of 2009.

CNN says:

Household net worth fell to $50.4 trillion, according to the report by the Federal Reserve. Americans' stock holdings plunged 5.8% to $5.2 trillion, while their home value dropped 2.4% to $17.9 trillion.

If it makes you feel any better, however, the rate of money zapping is apparently slowing. So there's that.

Americans' wealth drops $1.3 trillion [CNN]

Well, apparently, nobody learned to make the money reappear. What a shoddy magic trick.



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Cool! The stimulous is paid!



Probably you still don't get it.

The trick was not to make the money disappear. The trick was, that the money was never there in first place. Now that's what I call a shoddy magic trick.



White males hardest hit



Repent or be destroyed

Funny how so much money is involved and nobody going to jail for it.

Okay, maybe not that funny.



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I think it's time to start comparing the Dollar to the peso.