Markets in Everything: Fakes

Well, have you had this one yet?--an email sales solicitation from a source that tells me its business is producing fakes.  I won't do them the courtesy of giving you the address, nor quote their slogan, except to say it sounds a lot like "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."

Had to happen.  Soon, I suppose, they will have a national association with an executory and a staff of registered lobbyists.  Defending, I suppose, the legitimate concerns of the makers of authentic fakes against, well, I suppose against fake fakes.

Bring Out Yr Dead

I'm just now catching up with the idea of the "celebrity dead pool," not least through this helpful Wiki, with the caution that "in most pools, killing the celebrity in question is considered cheating." How dismaying also to discover that a--the?--principal broker of celebrity dead pools is, well, dead.

Markets in Everything

Intern brokerage.

Markets in Not Quite Everything

Sometimes, leaving a $100 bill on the night table is not a friendly gesture:

The difference between marriage and concubinage is money, says Babaji Rao. That is why it is considered more seemly that the bridegroom should go empty-handed to the house of the bride on his wedding-day, any gift from him to the bride's father might be misconstrued. The feeling about this is so strong that until recently it was most unwise for the bride's father to enter the bridegroom's village, and even now one does not stay in the house of one's married daughter or sister, for this would be to accept something from her husband. ... Younger brothers may stay with their married sisters without fear of comment, for they never had the right to dispose of them.

--J. R. Ackerley, Hindoo Holiday 253-4 (1932; NYRB 2000)

Markets in Everthing

Somehow I am getting an unusual number of blue-pill advertisements this morning (is there a birthday angle here?). But who could resist a subject line like this:

Stay man even when drunk!

Fills a long-felt need.