Philosophically, and I suppose economically, can you lose something you never really had?
I mean essentially his trial balloon popped early and he’s not going to realize $4B of phantom gains, but he’s not really lost anything by sending up the trial balloon.
I suppose if it were any other public figure there might be realizable losses in terms of loss of reputation, but, well, c’mon.
Surely not the entire economy, though I’ll generally concede your point… just today I saw two women exchange the output of ones chickens for the output of the other ones knitting needles.
I mean essentially his trial balloon popped early and he’s not going to realize $4B of phantom gains, but he’s not really lost anything by sending up the trial balloon.
I suppose if it were any other public figure there might be realizable losses in terms of loss of reputation, but, well, c’mon.
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