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[Every week, CC and John will bring you some of the weirdest, funniest, saddest things he hears on his college campus. Join the Overheard revolution! Leave your own overheard convos in the comments.]Four guys talking over Saturday breakfast:
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Washington told taxpayers a major rationale for us to fork over $700 billion to banks was to save the American economy by making loans more accessible, but it looks like at least at Chase they rather use it to buy other banks, NYT reports.

Times reporter Joe Nocera listened in on a Chase employee-only conference call and one employee asked, “Chase recently received $25 billion in federal funding. What effect will that have on the business side and will it change our strategic lending policy?”

Translation: When are we going to start making loans?The executive moderator replied:

Twenty-five billion dollars is obviously going to help the folks who are struggling more than Chase.. What we do think it will help us do is perhaps be a little bit more active on the acquisition side or opportunistic side for some banks who are still struggling. And I would not assume that we are done on the acquisition side just because of the Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns mergers. I think there are going to be some great opportunities for us to grow in this environment, and I think we have an opportunity to use that $25 billion in that way and obviously depending on whether recession turns into depression or what happens in the future, you know, we have that as a backstop.

Later, the same executive said,

We would think that loan volume will continue to go down as we continue to tighten credit to fully reflect the high cost of pricing on the loan side.

Translation: We’ll use that $25 billion as a war chest to buy other banks, and hoard it in case times get tougher.

“Read that answer as many times as you want,” wrote NYT, “You are not going to find a single word in there about making loans to help the American economy.”

Furthermore, a new tax break allows banks to immediately deduct any losses they that are on the books of the banks they acquire.

What is the government doing to make banks use the money for loans? Apparently, jack, except for asking really really nicely. If this continues and banks don’t use their government handout to open up loans, this bailout will be the single greatest ripoff in American history, and those responsible are naive if they don’t think they’ll have a giant bloody revolution on their hands—and I mean that in the literal sense.

So When Will Banks Give Loans? [NYT] (Photo: Getty)

Yup, that’s Bono in those pics creepily touching two bikini-clad teens.

He’s married!

Why would he allow such pix to be snapped?????

Was he drunk?

Is one of those hos his daughter???? No!

Anyway, last month, Bono and one of his musician buddies went down to St. Tropez in the south of France for some guy time.

While there, they hung out with 19-year olds Andrea Feick and Hannah Emerson.

Feick and Emerson decided to share with all their friends on Facebook the fun pix they snapped with their pal Bono.

The UK’s Daily Mail caught wind of this and has shared the fun in the sun with all of us!

Yay!

The paper reached out to Feick and she told them she’s known Bono for a few years and that their relationship has never crossed the friendship line, “No…God no!’ (she laughed) God no! He’s a friend of mine and that’s pretty much it. I’m not going to get into details, but it’s a small world.”

A few years?!?!

Did she meet him while she was in middle school?

Oh, and check out the hat Andrea is wearing in the third pic.

Isn’t that the same hat Bono was wearing at Disneyland?

Ewwwww!

[Images via Daily Mail.]

Our weekend in New York was fun, ferocious and fabulous!!!!!

Everything went soooo well on Friday night for our highly anticipated One Night in New York City event. And there’s a few people we need to thank for helping make it all possible.

First and foremost, we’d like to thank our friends at BMF Media - Brian, Bruce, an all - for helping us put together another amazing evening.

And, of course, thank you to all the talented people that performed and their management, labels and everyone who helped make it possible.

Lady Gaga is already a huge star and she definitely proved that on Friday. The entire world will catch up soon enough!

Her multimedia performance was so ballsy and of the caliber of a Christina, which makes it even that more impressive that Gaga is doing it now, in support of her debut album.

Semi Precious Weapons delivered on their promise to bring the rock ‘n’ roll - in a glamorous way - and they delivered and delivered. They were sooooo fun. Music should be fun! And fabulous!

Yo Majesty got the crowd worked up and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings really set the tone for a fabulous evening.

Four diverse acts. One fabulous evening!

Thanks, again, to everyone at The Highline Ballroom for all their help.

Thanks to the wonderful DJs who kept the crowd dancing throughout the night, Doug Grayson and Chip Duckett.

Thank you to all the sponsors who helped us offset the costs of putting on the show, Blog Ads, Guru, Cafe Bustelo and Heineken.

Many thanks as well to Citrine for letting us have our pre-party at their fabulous new space and to DJ Jesse Marco for spinning the tunes.

And, of course, thank you to everyone who attended.

More to come soon!!!!

[Photo by Bennett Raglin via Getty Images. Perez's outfit - head to toe - courtesy of Ben Sherman. Thanks to Miz Dana Dynamite!]

We videotaped bits of the performances and chatted with all of the artists, but for now, enjoy these gorgeous photos from our super dooper awesome fiesta!!!

[Images by Hal Horowitz.]

Disneyland!

Bono and family were spotted at the Happiest Place on Earth this Friday.

Here’s a pic of the fam on the Jungle Cruise ride.

Fun, fun!

[Image via National Photo Group.]