Let The Good-Times ROLL!!!

[Mr. Shaman]

Rejoice!!!!

Our tax-dollar$ WEREN'T wasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

"Con$picuou$ con$umption is making a comeback on Wall $treet.

As traders and investment bankers near the finish line of what looks like a boom year for pay, some are spending money like the financial crisis never happened. From $15,000-a-week Caribbean getaways to art auctions to $200,000 platinum wristwatches that automatically adjust for leap years, signs of the good life are returning.

"What we're seeing in the last four to eight weeks is a fairly substantial uptick" in demand for extravagant purchases as Wall Street employees grow more confident that the market's steep rebound so far in 2009 will soon bring them fat bonu$e$http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/boom-times-wall-st-luxury-spending-ri, says David Arnold, senior vice president at Robb Report, a magazine targeted at the super-wealthy."