Maxed out

Last month I ridiculed a cocaine-ruined money launderer who tried to jack the Feds for a $15 trillion tax refund. This month we’ve got a number even more inconceivable: $23,148,855,308,184,500. That, according to MSNBC, is how much Visa erroneously charged several of its credit card customers.

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Good news, failed bankers. The CIA is collecting the worthless flotsam of the great ship Wall Street for “a mission like no other” — economic and financial analysis for the U.S. government!