Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Wall Street Jungle

Hey kids, want to learn stuff your stupid parents refuse to learn? Don't waste time trying to learn things from them about the current financial crisis. This game can be over in about 30 minutes and you'll have lots of new facts to tell your friends.

Wall Street Jungle

Come on kids and play this game. You don't have anything better to do now anyways. They have repossessed your TV, computer, car and home. That's the beauty of this game. You can play it in your tent you are now living in. Just spread it out on the dirt floor and learn lots of stuff you never knew before! Adults you can join in too if your brains are still working.

Games pieces 100 moves Begin at space#1: Begin Financial Meltdown
Donkeys End at space#100: Rebuilt Financial Institutions
Elephants

Take turns picking cards to get to the final space on the board. Here are some unique highlights of this game. You can actually win in two moves if you select these two cards:

Execs stop raiding their companies to get salaries greater than their earnings. Go forward 50 spaces.
Government refuses to allow the same people who created the meltdown to fix it. Go forward 50 spaces.

You can also lose big time if you select the following cards:

We got all the money. Go back 50 steps.
Work at Goldman Sachs. Go back 50 steps. Identical cards.
Work at Lehman Brothers. Go back 50 steps. Identical cards.

Bush administration stops laws regulating trading. Go back 50 steps.
Excessively high salary puts company at risk. Go back 50 steps.

You buy futures in oil and cause gas prices to explode. Go back 50 steps. Identical card colors.
To make a profit, you tell the public we are running out of oil. Go back 50 steps. Identical card colors.

Business refuses innovation, no one wants their products. Go back 50 steps. Yellow card.
Banks refuse to loan out bailout money, business can't get credit to innovate. Go back 50 steps. Yellow card.

Well, by now you've learned you can't ever finish this game. That's okay. Just keep on playing it over and over again. It might just sink it. You too parents.


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