“Bailout Bill”
NPR’s Planet Money blog has a piece today on “Bailout Bill,” a character created by BailoutBooth.com (a sort of internet pawn shop). Bailoutbooth.com seems to be offering a way for people to sell things for cash by posting their own personal video classified ads on the BailoutBooth site. As a promotion, the company have been offering cash to people to tell their stories of financial woe to the Bailout Bill character. Many of those stories are posted here and definitely worth a read to get a sense of people’s struggles if you’re not already struggling yourself.
Meanwhile, we’ve hired a genetics consultant to try and determine if there is in fact any direct or indirect relationship between Bankruptcy Bill and Bailout Bill.
December 29th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Tired of the bankers having all the fun.
Bailout! The Game the hilarious parody of the government bailout where when you lose, you win. In this role reversal of the classic board game debt is king.
Bailout! The Game gives you an endless supply of T.A.R.P funds, laughs and fun.
Be the bank, lose billions and get a bailout.
Play as one of six banks: Bankruptcy O’ America, Worth Farless, No Cashvia, Liquidation Brothers, Greedy Investors of America, or Washed Up Mutual.
Land on or pass over Frantic May and Frivolous Mac spaces and get slammed with bad debt.(MBS’s and CDO’s)
Just as Monopoly was born out of the Great Depression, Bailout! The Game was born out The Great Recession.
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http://www.bailoutthegame.com