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Wall$treet And The Financial Games From The 80's

stanford.edu — That's right, a game about the stock market crash of 1987, made in 1987. By current standards 500 points in a day is just a hiccup, but back in the early days it was enough to fuel a whole game. Wonder if there will be a game soon called "The Big Bailout", featuring real-time Henry Paulson supplication controls.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 29, 2008

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  • inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+11...from the '80s.

    The apostrophe goes BEFORE the numerals, to take the place of the missing "19". An apostrophe + S makes things possessive, not plural.
  • Hangly, on 09/29/2008, -0/+9The Big Bailout would be the worst game ever.

    Land on Boardwalk with hotel.
    Grab $2000 from the bank to pay it.
    Roll again.
  • Lavarock, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Thank you for the dollar sign as the letter "S". We understand that Wall Street is about money.
  • HillerMylife, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4The 1980s was "the early days?"
  • inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4stories
  • kelstock, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3You took four minutes of my life and I want them back!

    Oh, I'd only waste them anyway
  • life38, on 09/28/2008, -1/+4Even if the market goes further down, if you are able to hold then its time to buy and hold.
  • Mpwns, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3http://finance.yahoo.com/ looks like we are gonna have more than a hiccup today Asia and Europe markets are open now not doing so well.its like watching a count down timer a bit a go.
  • kazamx, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3Thats dumb. If the market is going to go further down then its time not to buy and hold. Its time right now to get the fook out of stocks and wait for things to bottom out then invest.
  • BevansDesign, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2You know you need to take an article seriously if they replace the S with a dollar sign.
  • KewlerKid3, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2I'll have to remember that =P
  • kazamx, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2So you think after not being able to beat Afghanistan or Iraq and after pissing off Iran and Russia, now you want the US to go after the EU? Wow, I don't think you need any help taking out America. The US will bankrupt itself.
  • craighoxton, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2"...this is a game that most of humanity is playing, and apparently currently failing..." LOL
  • tajitj, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Do not look to the govt for solutions. Or the two idiots running apparently to be our king.
    Check this idea out.
    http://www.thirdpartyticket.com/
  • moracity, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Paulson is liberal wall-street insider who will be back in the private sector soon reaping the benefits of this act. This bill sets up the next Treasury Secretary with unheard of powers, including bailing out foreign banks and provides no incentive to stop the bad lending game. If you thought Patriot Act was bad, wait till this gets passed. This may help some banks and people who got into bad mortgages, but it kills the good banks and those of us who just got regular conventional loans for home that were within our means.

    This is something that regular Joe dems and repubs need to come together on to stop. If you haven't already called your Representative, do it now.
  • Jake54321, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Or maybe a new game called "Taxes" and to get you in the mood to play it you get charged at a 24% rate when you purchase?
  • starcluster22, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Guess the Digg algorithm uses *wallstreet* to get storys to the front page :)
  • NightTrap, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1... anyone else think of Wall Street Kid? http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Wall_Street ...
  • KewlerKid3, on 09/29/2008, -3/+3Front page with 2 comments? O.o
  • JDluda, on 09/29/2008, -2/+1U.S. Americans with our civil liberties and the U.S. Constitution at stake in these tough times we have to make a stand against these World leaders and bankers. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!! The Federal Reserve is the corrupt system run by Europe bankers to establish a ONE WORLD currency and a ONE WORLD GOVT.!! With the European Union established followed by the African Union and soon to be the Asian Union, we will be forced through this dictatorship world govt. by this Financial debt of $9.6 trillion or possibly by another attack on our soil that will make 9/11 look like a joke. It's to create the NORTH AMERICAN UNION and the $AMERO through N.A.F.T.A. converging U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The N.W.O. will be here sooner than you think, A ONE WORLD GOVT./ ONE WORLD CURRENCY. 55 Trends a panel consisting of highly intelligent people with doctrines, degrees, and so forth predicted 9/11 before it happened made a report about the next (terror) ATTACK. That it will most likely be a NUCLEAR BOMB that detonates in a large city like New York or our capital in D.C. in the next year and a half to three years. For your security they will try to force the Veri-chip or the R.F.I.D. chip that is the mark of the beast in Revelations.They will bring Order out of Chaos. We see this happening right now people wake up please!! The Bible is the truth if you don't believe me read Revelations. Ever since 9/11 Bible prophesy is being fulfilled faster than you can imagine. I'll prove it open your Bible if you don't have one get one, go to Revelations 17 and 18 first then Jeremiah 50 and 51. We are the woman who sits on the beast, BABYLON the GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES!! The beast is the E.U consisting of (ten) permanent nations, ten horns that will rule for a short time. And in order for their world power America as we know it will fall as a great Independent, Sovereign nation. Rev. 17v. 15 Then the angel said to me, " The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits are people of nations( 50states) and languages( diff. ethnic groups). The beast(E.U.)or N.W.O. and the ten horns(ten permanent nations in the the E.U.) will hate the prostitute (U.S.A.). We are the nation(50 states) surrounded by many waters, the Atlantic,Pacific oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico. Read v.17 thats whats happening now giving up are power as they did begun on 9/11 . V.18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth. Where's the U. N. and the U.S. stock market/and global, in NEW YORK CITY!! Rev.18 v.3-4 For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "come out of her my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not see any of her plagues; v.5 for her sins are piled up to heaven, and GOD has remembered her crimes." GOD is warning us to seek his truth and repent ask forgiveness through our Lord Jesus Christ so that we will be caught in the soon rapture to avoid her plagues. v.9 " When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury See THE SMOKE of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: "Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come!' New York is that great city and the towers did fall in one hour. Read v.11-21 God says the merchants who traded with our stock market that gained their wealth will stand far off, terrified at her torment that they will weep and mourn and cry out:Woe! Woe, O great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! (Woe!), {Woe} is talking about the first (tower!) then the second {tower} collapsing. Dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet is the red and blue on our flag! Red and Blue mixed turns to purple, a nation as a whole. Glittering with gold is the gold trim on our flag and the precious stones and pearls are the stars. V.19 They will throw dust on their heads,... The people that were warned from our police and firefighters to get away as far from the towers didn't they were standing there watching the towers burn in shock and awe thus "throwing dust on their heads." Now go to Jeremiah 50v.15 Shout against her on every side! She surrenders, her TOWERS FALL! ,her walls are torn down. Are borders as we know it will be no more once N.A.F.T.A. the NORTH AMERICAN UNION is established. Read through all of Jeremiah 50 and 51 America will be attacked and made desolate after the rapture. Ezekiel 38 and 39 is a prophesy of the soon war of Russia(Gog), Iran(Persia) and other Islamic nations going against Israel. 38v.10 God says on that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. Russia is directly from the far north of Israel that the Bible speaks about. This battle will be the beginning of Armagedon. Rev.16. The army of 200 million men from the east is China!
    In Rev.16 v.18 is clearly talking about a nuclear attack on the U.S. Pray and repent so that you may not have to see these things or be in her plagues for we will be God's saints and warriors to end all corruption, evil. To live, rule and serve God in his new Kingdom here on earth in the Holy land of Israel for all eternity.

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