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2010-05-18 08:56:07
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picking the horse you rode in on...,
2010-05-19 21:13:47
less rodeo clown more carny capitalism:
Glenn Beck shilling overpriced gold coins at double their melt value to his audience as a safety net against the horrific calamity to come is sort of the perfect metaphor for his entire carnival act.
I suppose it's inevitable that the peasants will leap to the defense of the whole thing and attack Weiner's intervention as communist tyranny. In the free market we have a right to be defrauded by hucksters, the privilege to pay for overpriced commemorative coins as a hedge against a decade or three of rampant hyperinflation. Hell, taking the risk premium in the Beckian universe into account Goldline isn't defrauding Beck's audience, but performing a magnanimous act of charity by selling its gold at all.
It's the kind of market built entirely on the small time information asymmetry cons that a carnie would be proud of.
:: posted by buermann @ 2010-05-18 22:29:11 CST |
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