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The Fed may not be able to manufacture new net financial assets, but it can and will create lots of excess cash reserves! (Hat tip Scott F.)

In a famous "Saturday Night Live" skit, Christopher Walken plays a legendary rock music impresario whose advice, his only advice, to a young band is "more cowbell." The actor Will Ferrell furiously pounds away on a…

This is pure Barry White, people! Hat tip Scott.

On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night. The president had come, on the eve of what will almost certainly be the loss of his governing majority, to plead his case before Jon Stewart, gatekeeper of the…

If your kids want to dress up as a scary figure for Halloween, they can get this mask below (hat tip Yves Smith).

Is Al Pacino a great actor or what?  Inspired by Paul Krugman's comments about China. I hope Dr. Krugman appreciates the humour. Source: Tony Montana, Scarface (1983) IMDB

This is probably the best dub of this scene I have seen yet. Hat tip Scott

This is an inventive little number by Fallon and Timberlake singing all of the most popular hip hop tunes of the last 30 years with remarkable fidelity to the original. Seriously, these guys really sound like the originals. Hilarious…

No, this is not an economics term but it's a pretty scary knife trick.

In France, this video of the former French Justice Minister and current European parliamentarian Rachida Dati is making the rounds. If you speak French, you'll know why when you hear Dati's word choice 14 seconds into the video. She…