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# Mortgages are Forever
- URL: https://justinowings.com/mortgages-are-forever/
- Published: 2008-10-10T20:42:42.000Z
- Updated: 2008-10-10T20:42:42.000Z
- Author: Justin Owings
- Tags: articles

So a guy I ping emails with mentioned to me that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson made a great "Dr. Evil" considering his bailout bill had a pricetag of $700 **BILLION**. What really made the situation humorous, though, was that the bald Paulson appointed shaved-head Neel Kashkari to oversee the bailout. Thus, rather than obsess over the crashing market ([1,000 point amplitude today on the DJIA](http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI&ref=justinowings.com#chart2:symbol=^dji;range=20081010,20081010;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined)!), I determined to [mock up a movie poster](http://ml-implode.com/articles/mortgagesareforever.html?ref=justinowings.com):

[![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/iehi-ad-images/mortgagesareforever.jpg)](http://ml-implode.com/articles/mortgagesareforever.html?ref=justinowings.com)

This might not be funny to a lot of you, but I enjoyed making it. And after this week of atrocious market performance, even for a bear like me, I needed the comic relief!