A commenter (‘Ed’) in The Press commits the Broken Window Fallacy in a particularly distasteful fashion. Because of these accidents a lot of jobs are created. Think about police, tow truck companies, funeral parlors, hospital staff, insurance companies, new or second hand car dealers, lawyers, prisons, judges, maybe even roadworkers to fix the road after [...]
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Broken Window Fallacy Fail
Posted by Luke H on August 30th, 2010Buy Low, Sell High
Posted by Luke H on August 27th, 2010Last night I gave this speech at my Toastmasters club about iPredict, and thought I’d share it here. I had a slightly more involved ending where I reviewed what I had said in the body of the speech, but had to cut it short as I was running out of time. “Buy low, sell high.” [...]