Riddles for The Week

#1
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?



#2

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?


#3

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?


#4

What can you catch but not throw?


#5

I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?


#6
What's black and white and red all over?



#7

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?


#8

I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?


#9

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?


#10

The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?


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Paul McCulley noted that the debt crisis (the shadow banking system, subprime mortgages, SIVs, etc.) was the equivalent of an under-age drinking party with the rating agencies handing out fake IDs.


That about sums it up!