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Do not foresee a moment, a battling; foresee two years and more, a
warring.  Pitchfork

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Demonstration effect = individual behaviors caused by seeing for yourself what the other guy did or had done to him and the consequence of that ‘did’ or ‘done’ (a/k/a when are those pants deflagrating? or say wha'?). 

Choose the statement with which you agree in each group:

Group #1

a. They say that the American economy is improving.

b. They say that the American economy is less bad.

c. They say that the American economy is sinking in the dumper.

Group #2

a. They say inflation is coming . . . inflation is coming!

b. They say deflation is coming . . . deflation is coming!

Group #3

a. They say that there are best stocks to own when things go bad to worse.

b. They say to get all the way out of stocks when things go bad to worse.

Group #4

a. They say it’s time to buy BP.

b. They say it’s time to short BP.

Group #5

a. They say gold’s in a big, shiny bubble and not to buy gold.

b. They say to buy gold.

Group #6

a. They say your dog is in the hunt.

b. They say their dog is in the hunt.

Group #7

a. It will be 12 o’clock twice today.

b. It will not be 12 o’clock twice today.

Answers in the opinion of Pitchfork:

Group #1:  c. They say that the American economy is sinking in the dumper.

Rising unemployment - cooked or raw; foreclosures - cooked or raw; shrinking tax base and rising taxes; uninterrupted salvos of capitalist-stomping laws and regulations and bad decisions and no shortage of morons to keep bringing it on; rigged price indices; unrepayable, rising debt; mark to book; off balance sheet accounting; excess bank reserve glut; tall waves of foreclosures; tall waves of bankruptcies; closed market rates; suppressed credit; opaque Federal Reserve; trading partners blowing in the wind; cities and states and foreign countries going-going-gone broke . . . doubts are easy to come-by and hard to put away . . . value is perceived, judged . . . looking out the window, values are not improving

Group #2:  Yep, might could be.  One at a time, or, worse, together.

Group #3:  Yep, might could be.  Pitchfork has never met a stock on which he could not lose money.  Gotta get better.  Right?  Ya think?  Ya thinkin' hard?

Group #4:  Undetermined, loosed by buckets of BP bucks to BHO* and the band, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; undetermined blow flow; buck suckers aplenty; vote vultures aplenty; how many more oil-sopped animals that media morons can squeeze into news times; how extensive the human suffering and loss, etc.

*For Barack Hussein Obama né Barry Soetoro, BHO may be pronounced ‘boo’ or ‘bo’ depending on which you reckon is more respectful.

Group #5:  Yep, might could be.  Worth noting that these statements need not necessarily be mutually exclusive.

Group #6:  b. They say their dog is in the hunt.

Tune in Fox Business, “Cavuto” in the late afternoon on a day the stock market tanks, and hear the piggies squeal.  Oh, my.  (Partial credit for a. Your dog is in the hunt.  Hunting is a survival option, and you might could be working on it.)

Group #7: a. It’ll be 12 o’clock twice today.

Gar-ron-teed.  That is, unless gobmint says it isn’t so, in which case you gotta do what’s right.  ‘bout time.  Right?

Extra points (brief essay, to 100 words): 

Q: How will you know that you know whassup and whassnot? 

A: The Demonstration Effect.  What is happening?  Look out the window; talk to your neighbors; ask around your family; hang at Wal-Mart a while; don’t just read the 'they say' pubs; don’t just watch the 'they say' TV; determine for yourself if and when what’s hitting the fan’s hitting you; and figure out whatcha gonna do not to be standin' idly by in the breeze?  Might could be some bad breeze bigtime, don't you know? 

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