{"id":163,"date":"2006-08-02T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-08-02T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:51:11","slug":"high-phinance-on-the-editorial-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/163\/high-phinance-on-the-editorial-page\/","title":{"rendered":"High phinance on the editorial page . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I lived in Phoenix when the Arizona Republic<\/i> was still a great American newspaper, a daily example of how good a mainstream media outlet could be if it worked from fact, not bias. The Copy Desk — the folks who write headlines and captions — was rich with poets and punsters in those days, which meant a lot to me, too.<\/p>\n

Long gone. The paper was bought by Gannett and over the last decade has been infested if not infiltrated with ideologues. Even the smallest item is suspect, but major issues are always<\/i> reported from the slant of one long-range agenda or another. For example, the repeated mentions of allegedly homeless schoolteachers and firefighters is part of a propaganda campaign to pass ‘affordable housing’ legislation. Soviet-style, the paper will run half-a-dozen glowing puff-pieces on a pet topic on one day.<\/p>\n

That’s the bad news. The good news is, they’re really bad at it. Anyone schooled in rhetoric can see right through it. Here’s an example from today’s Editorial page<\/a>:<\/p>\n

News flash: The law of gravity wasn’t suspended in the Valley. In last year’s sizzling real estate market, home prices and sales kept going up.<\/p>\n

And up. And up.<\/p>\n

At least one of four sales was to a speculator. Prices skyrocketed 55 percent in 2005. Sellers raked in profits as bidding wars drove up prices.<\/p>\n

And now, an astonishing number of people are startled to find that the law of gravity still applies to the Phoenix area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ignore the real estate argument, which is really no more or less stupid than the ones that erupt, Tourettes-like, from those afflicted with enbubbulation. What matters is that finance is not physics. Equating the two is specious. So much the better, the idiot editorialist doesn’t even understand the law of gravity.<\/p>\n

So what’s the purpose? To gull the gullible — among whom the author might nevertheless be numbered — into believing that economics describes unavoidable events and relationships in the same way that physics does. Proximate masses must accelerate toward each other, the lesser toward the greater? Yup, and if a market booms it must bust, if Moneybags got richer then Penniless must Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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