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Employees at Denver's branch of the Federal Reserve were seen playing some kind of jury-rigged circus game today, tossing Frisbees through different-colored hula-hoops in the parking lot.
Are they trying to decide which American banking giant [3] to bail out next? (The orange hula-hoop, we hear, is AIG.)
Curiously, a woman taking notes was wearing a hat with Ireland's colors. Are the Irish attempting to outbid London-based Barclays [4] for the bankrupt Lehman Brothers?Links:
[1] http://www.5280.com/tag/authors/patrick-doyle
[2] http://www.5280.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/federalreserve4.jpg
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/business/18markets.html?hp
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/business/worldbusiness/17barclays.html