Onion: Economy Grinds To Halt On Realization That Money Is An Illusion

The Onion unquestionably produces the best satire headlines in the humor business, but sometimes their stories miss the potential of the headlines. This is unfortunately the case with this week’s story entitled U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion. But not to worry because here’s another choice Onion cut from their video work: US To Trade Gold Reserves for Cash Through Cash4Gold.com. This is a classic story along the same economic lines, and their video news format is quite a bit different from Daily Show/Colbert because it’s a hard news format—surprising these videos don’t get more attention because they’re hilarious.