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Good News and Bad News

I got good news and bad news.

The good news is, the economy is on fire, likely creating 1 million jobs in February. The bad news is, you’re all gonna starve anyway. ROFLMAOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!


Corn

But I have a solution. As we speak, “The Fly” is drafting up a 50 page power-point presentation, Bill Ackman style, regarding my proposal to peg the dollar to the price of corn. In other words, yes, I am suggesting we go on “the corn standard.” I will present this detailed plan on CNBC, as soon as I am finished.

I am confident this plan will resonate with policy makers and bearded clams alike. For one, it will bring stability to our whacky, third world style currency. We can walk around in sheep’s skinned coats, comfortably knowing and bragging about our currency being backed by “hard, tangible assets.” We make shit here and will be the envy of the world.

Secondly, the Federal Reserve, backed by The First Bank of Corn, can always ask the First Bank of Corn to simply plant more corn. The more corn planted, the more money we will have (i.e. “rich as fuck”).

Third, we can walk around with nibblets in our pockets and either pay for shit or have an afternoon snack. Win, win.

Lastly, after the corn standard is installed, we can control government spending by demanding those fuckers on capitol hill “show us the corn.” No corn, no tomahawks. Plain and simple.

Failure to adhere to my plan will result in the eventual starvation of 75% of you corn can fuckers out there. So, I strongly suggest you support my “creamed corn” plan to prosperity, else your bones will soon be used to fertilize my corn crops.

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51 comments

  1. xxxHuggieBearxxx
    xxxHuggieBearxxx

    My god, this plan is brilliant. Prosperity can be had by anyone with a decent patch of mid-western backyard. I am already sitting pretty as i’ve got many an expired can of corn in my cubboard.

    However, I would suggest we not count popcorn as hard currency. It may technically be a corn varietal, but it’s not of the same quality.

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  2. Corn Hole

    People will dig through stool samples for corn!!!

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  3. chivo

    plant more corn / print more dollars

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  4. Al Gore

    Oops I just ate some popcorn along with the profits………crap.

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  5. vale

    Brilliant!

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  6. stockcats

    I suggest you procure the domain name iBankCorn.com promptly

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    • Mohammar Kidaffyduck
      Mohammar Kidaffyduck

      LOL!

      -Mohhamar Corndaffyduck

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    • The King of Korn, formerly known as The Bernanke
      The King of Korn, formerly known as The Bernanke

      Um,…too late! That domain name is already taken.

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  7. ruggyup

    Fiendishly clever. My Pee Party associates promote an alternative. COTTON. A new cotturrency based on the basic needs of Planet Moonshit dogbreaths everywhere, shirts, shorts, knickers, sweatyshirts, ponies, mechanical devices like the cotton gin, support for the industrial complex that controls pesticides for the boll weevil. A new mantra, if you can knit it, you can fuck it. Brilliant! And bye the bye, I’ll drink cotton gin but I won’t smoke oregano. That’s for you downstreet dick for brains.

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    • The Fly

      You can’t eat cotton.

      Corn wins again

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      • ruggyup

        Maybe, maybe not. Cotton candy, a carnival staple, is eaten and stuck to faces, hands, clothes, wnrs requiring gross stimulation to GNP through necessary production of soap, scrubbers, towels and whatever. Who the fuck ever heard of corn candy ‘cept’n fer the rednecks who also gobble corn dogs at NASCAR cotillions. Oh my God! Corn dogs. Sorta kinda almost like corn wnrs.

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  8. Bullish

    Wow, I knew living in the middle of corn fields would pay off one day.. Please enact into law immediately.

    Fly for President!

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  9. MOOBER

    And I’m reminded of Jim Rogers’ call to buy farmland…

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  10. GYSC

    Pardon the language but brilliant fucking analogy! The Fly IS god!

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  11. discoordinated

    peg it all to steam engines. I have one.

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  12. mrkcbill

    Good Blast from a local blogger on the rise of “THRIFT STORES”

    “The new economy. Thrift stores are a huge growth industry all over the United States.
    Is this gonna piss anybody off besides me? WTF!!
    I get thrifty, but this aint about Benjamin Franklin, its about the Benjamins or lack thereof.
    The oligarchy, with help from local and naitonal kleptomaniacs, scratch that, kleptocrats, has, in the last dozen years, affected a transfer of wealth, to a selected 1.5%, who now own, 34.5% of American wealth.
    CDOs, Mortgaged Back Securities, Lloyd Blankfien and Goldman Sachs Fuckhead Captains of Industry and the whole cadre of greedy, scumbag robber barons have left Americans thrilled to shop at all the “New Thrift Stores” , buy Chinese shit from Wallmart and put our neighbors outta work.
    I wanna a fuckin Black and White tv, I wanna pay a ton for it, and I want it made in America goddamnit! I wann pay more for cars, and I don’t want a fuckin Toyota, I want Chevys and Fords made by Americans!
    I want fuckin Tarrifs like the fuckin Chineeeeese have so our goods can compete, I want AMERICAN FUCKIN STEELE FROM FUCKIN PENNSYLVANIA!!
    I want Silicone valley to come bakc from oveseas!
    I want Electric cars and shale oil and fuck Islam in thier colelctive asses!
    I want more guns and more fuckin American whiskey, and no more fuckin THRIFT STORES!!
    I wanna see my neighbor go to work and watch his kids grow up and go to a school where there is NO revisionist history.
    The only type of people that I wanna see shopping at THRIFT STORES are the homeless guy with the golden voice and his family. Thats what fuckin thrift stores are for!
    I want pieces of shit from the Hindu Kush and the mideast to quake like crack heads every time they see the flag.
    I wanna quit bullshitting on the tennis court, like a bunch of fuckin Ricky Martin fans, storm the Bastille and take back the American dream.
    Fuck Thrift Stores.”

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    • trashed

      Tell that sissy faggot to do something about it rather than blog. What a pussy. Texas will secede if this nation turns into a shit hole. Texas dollars will be comprised of US dollars dipped in oil and the scalps of California homos.

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  13. trashed

    I will sell longhorn steaks to you fools when the time comes, I only sell for precious metals and canadian and australian dollars. Even corn and ammunition will be valid trades.

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  14. Cheesetrader

    What really rocks, is that we’re exporting corn based ethanol to Brazil b/c the sugar market’s so high they don’t want to turn it into alcohol

    Drunk on corn – it’s a great life

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  15. Mr. Greenjeans

    What’s next? You fuckers will soon be paying big bucks for NON-RADIOACTIVE WATER!!!!! Better buy the farm……….get ready (to bend over).

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  16. ALLPROz

    Throw you monkeys a bone….

    Short Disney (DIS) with impunity….a mere 3% risk…

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  17. Cornwell cornhole
    Cornwell cornhole

    The FLY is Cornholio

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  18. Mr. Cain Thaler

    My God this post is great.

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  19. Corntube

    You call it corn, we call it “maize”.

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  20. alphadawgg

    This is a corny idea (sorry).

    You should “talk to Chuck” about this. Better yet, talk to Jimmy. He likes crack, corn, and doesn’t care.

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  21. alphadawgg

    …..I wonder if “A Monkey Smoking Crack With a Corn Cob Pipe” will add his comments to this edifying discussion.

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  22. go2mars

    LOL! One of your finest posts Fly! Hahaha.

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  23. silentmax

    is it possible to teardown detroit and turn it into farmland? plant corn for everybody and relocate the housedwellers there chinese style

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  24. The King of Korn, formerly known as The Bernanke
    The King of Korn, formerly known as The Bernanke

    Winning!

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  25. Yabollox

    DE ready to roll over $100. This just might get them there.

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  26. Yabollox

    Corn standard needs a bearded clam, er– bearded cornholio,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MMTwIlWlU&feature=related

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  27. Belly of the Beast
    Belly of the Beast

    What most people don’t know is that pasta is not an Italian dish. It was first invented in Jamaica by the Pastafarians. Later, in old fascist Italy, they stole the recipe and changed the term Pastafarians to Rastafarians. Ever since, the rastafarians wear spaghetti-looking “dreadlocks” to signify the dread? of having their precious pasta-culture stolen by the Italians.

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  28. Dirk Diggler

    If we go on the corn standard I can literally poop money

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  29. Trading Nymph

    Yep, Both the China PMI’s missed estimates…and yep, the mainland market didn’t go down so far on the news. Why? Drip, Drip…do I hear a leak, lol. For the China Govt PMI Actual was (Mar) 53.4 vs analyst estimates 54.3 and China HSBC Manufacturing PMI (Mar) 51.8 vs analyst estimates 52.4

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    • Trading Nymph

      sorry forgot my bad habit of Slang…PMI is Purchasing Managers Index, China has two sets.

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      • Dr Funk

        Do you ever look within the numbers as well? (of course china data is so reliable) But for example, the main reason various regionals PMIs have beaten on the overall is “prices paid” (thank you ben) and “inventory”. like Chicago, Empire manufacturing etc. I’m sure you’re on top of this but if not send some spies in to find out ok

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  30. Yossi Israel

    Graet man seems very good idea..!!-;)

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  31. Cornholio

    Good Morning Corn Fields !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nothing like enjoying the sunrise with a cup of roasted corn coffee….

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  32. ALEX

    Hey Fly is QIHU an interesting lottery play? surprise you are not in.

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  33. ALEX

    Fly is QIHU an interesting lottery play? surpridse you are not in

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  34. el chiquito mamut
    el chiquito mamut

    BT corn may fail – nature rules

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  35. razorsedge

    CLNE

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  36. Sam

    “we can walk around with nibblets in our pockets and either pay for shit or have an afternoon snack. Win, win.”

    Genius, senor. Pure Genius!

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