Friday, November 22, 2013

The Minions of the Federal Reserve

This is just great. Via Political Calculations.

We here at Political Calculations are happy to help you solve this problem! After watching Despicable Me 2 in the theaters earlier this year, it dawned on us that many of the animated characters in the movie are actually modeled after real life people. Specifically, the officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

For example, here's a side-by-side comparison between Minnesota Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota and the minion Dave:



Next, here's is Philly Fed chief Charles Plosser and the minion Stewart:


It gets even more uncanny. Next, we have Chicago Fed president Charles Evans and his doppleganger, the minion Tim:


Finally, what Federal Reserve action figure set would be completed without the big guy himself, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (a.k.a. Gru):


We're pretty sure that a Janet Yellen action figure is in the works for either the Minions or Despicable Me 3 movie projects now in development.

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