Fiscal Fact-finder Prints

'Continuing to deficit spend during a budget crunch is what makes America great!'

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Fiscal Compass for the Global Investor.

Reporter #6: television.

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

We have a problem with your research. We're Encyclopedia Britannica and you're Wikipedia.

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

"Please, Lord, enough already."

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

'Can you get me in touch with people that own me money?'

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

'I feel I owe a lot to my country.' - 'So, you haven't paid your income tax again.'

'Don't panic, folks! It's red ink, not blood!

I think I can...

"I see you've arranged your life and business so that you can deduct everything. Do you know the penalty for 'trying to beat the system'?"

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

Conspiracy theories

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

'Maybe we can rob Peter AND Paul.'

After income tax, pension and national insurance I end up owing £450.

"Do you have a few unsubstantiated claims I can borrow?"

"Stacy. Stacy. Honey... You're not a doctor."