Markets Crash on Pictures of Obama Losing Shirt
Shirtless President-elect Creates Crisis of Confidence
Global markets swooned today in reaction to photos showing that President-elect Barack Obama had lost his shirt.
The pictures depicting a shirtless Mr. Obama wandering about on a deserted stretch of beach stoked fears that the U.S.’s financial woes were deeper than previously reported.
“We have had a steady drumbeat of bad news about the U.S. economy for weeks now,” said Tracy Klugian, global asset analyst for HSBC. “Learning that the President-elect no longer has a shirt to his name was the last thing these markets needed.”
In an attempt to calm investors. Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said that the President-elect still owned a shirt and denied rumors that Mr.Obama had invested funds with Bernie Madoff.
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