My Parents invested in Bear Stearns and all they have now is this lousy T-shirt

Well, no surprise, today seems like a terrible, awful, no good, very bad day in the aptly named FIRE sectors. Let's make the best of it by adding a few new tees and a category, Disaster Capitalism, to CafeFouro...

First is obvious:



Next, a tee with a story. Give one as a warning gift to your next broker...




Wolkenkuckucksheim. The Germans have a word for everything, don't they? And the Greeks have the stories.

Aristophanes wrote a play called The Birds. The main "Birds" are actually two dudes, Pisthetairos (loosely meaning "Mr. Trusting") and Euelpides ("Mr. Hopeful"). These two were bored and frustrated with reality and wanted to create a fantastical place where the rules of gravity, complexity and pain don't apply. They got some wings, made friends with the birds, and they built a big wall to keep others from harshing their mellow. It was a place Aristophanes named Cloud-cuckoo-land; in the groovy German, Wolkenkuckucksheim.

Most likely, it too was financed with Structured Investment Vehicles and Special Purpose Entities.

Disaster Capitalism at CafeFouro. Where depressing doodles go to dye™