In the red corner (pun intended), courtesy of Real Time with Bill Maher, we have The Young Cons, a couple of rising Dartmouth sophomores who seem to be trying to make being right-leaning cool. Too bad they don’t have the shiny hair and pretty smile of Meghan McCain…
You can find the lyrics here. I’m not trying to say that I agree or disagree, just that they touch on some economic issues…
In the dumb corner (yes, I am okay with the lack of parallelism), courtesy of Kevin Bjorke via Facebook, we have…well, I’m not quite sure what this is. The series is entitled “Bored in Bikinis”, and the description says “The girls browse through magazines like Forbes to give their two cents on private equity, GDP, and IPOs.” Watch at the risk of your own IQ:
The best line: “I thought only guys like economy magazines.” Sigh.
So which is worse? The boys are ridiculously nerdy, which could go either way, but they’re a little too self-righteous in my opinion. On the other hand, I am annoyed at the girls’ video, since I had such high hopes for it to be totally awesome. Come on- it could have completely embodied the “economists do it with models” concept AND had girls in bikinis talking about economics. Clearly the world is not ready for that…double sigh.
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1 Andrew // Jun 29, 2009 at 6:39 am
Jodi-
You hit it right. Both are painful to watch and at over 4 minutes each, that is a lot of braincells I will never use again. A.
2 econgirl // Jun 29, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Nobody makes you shop at Wal-Mart, and nobody makes you watch bad videos in their entirety. Just be glad you weren’t one of the people watching Fox News (of course) when the Young Cons video was shown, since then you likely wouldn’t have the ability to fast forward or pause and move on to something else…
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