Hey guys, remember when I acted like I was going to bust out my laptop on vacation and write witty and insightful blog posts? Well, hahahahaha. That was rich.
So before I left for a week of basking in the partially cloudy New Jersey beach weather, I had a chat with a friend of mine about this Reuters video investigating the very important issue of our national obsession with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Said friend, a fellow news man (I am not a news man per se, but doesn’t that make our exchange sound extra intellectual?) noted that it’s far easier to get people engaged with a video about a redneck six-year-old than, say, one about the LIBOR scandal. “So true,” I responded, while remotely setting my DVR to record a marathon of old Gossip Girl episodes in my absence. “So very true.”
I have tried, through posts like this glowing review of Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia, to impress upon you people (and by proxy, people in general) the degree to which we as a culture should be engaged with financial news. Not simply because it matters, and is important, and determines the economic well-being of our entire planet, but because, well, it’s interesting!
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