How to spend your eight bucks! These are answers from economists to a question posed by the Wall Street Journal, not an article in the Onion, so some of the answers are serious. But you can tell it was a struggle for some of them to answer with a straight face. My favorite: Paul Kasriel, Northern Trust : I would use the extra cash to start a hedge fund, which would purchase newly-issued asset-backed securities. I would finance my position through the Fed’s TALF program.