[freedumb2003]

When prices are fixed, ceilings or floors, you end up with shortages.

I was in Mexico when the floated the Peso. Overnight EVERY SINGLE IMPORTED ITEM (electronics, TVs, Levis, etc.) were pulled from the shelves.

Big stores, like WalMart, looked like stores in Ferguson — bare shelves.

[meadsjn]

The fat, old, ugly cigar-smoking man essentially propositions: I can't compete for your hand on the basis of a guy like Williams, so I'm going to offset my disadvantages by offering you a high price. Some might conclude that it's unfair for pretty women to exact higher terms from fat, old ugly men than from handsome men.

I see what you did there, Walter.