Monty by Jim Meddick for February 17, 2024

Slide rule, eh? I used to have one of those back in the previous century. Bamboo. 23 scales. Came with a belt holster.

Warren Buffett was too much to hope for, but this is a real Laffer.

Would Sedgwick actually know what a sliderule is?

And here I thought the slide rule was about courtesy on the playground.

No, George Costanza

Give him a moustache and a red stapler, and he’d look like Milton Waddams from Office Space.

What’s not to love about bald, middle aged, white guys, eh?

At least, Milton isn’t so insecure that he wears a belt with his suspenders. ;-)

Someone gave me a slide rule when I was a lad. I never learned how to use it, but it was fun to play with.

Milton from Office Space ??

I’m thinking that just means he became an accountant, instead. :)

I was hoping to learn more about aggregate supply. Where do they grow those aggregates? :)

Ahh, the invisible hand of the marketplace.

for a second I thought he created a version of his father who would actually want to spend time with him, ALMOST gave this character a bit of tragic depth

hope that he can also conjure up aggregate demand… ☺

Uncle Miltie is the patron saint of Republican “economists”:

The ONLY responsibility of corporations is to make as much money for their executives and shareholders as possible.

He didn’t actually say ‘Greed is Good’, but it is implied and imbued in his philosophy. And he had no problem with greed being insatiable.

Milton Friedman is the shame to all Miltons. He was as dense as a rock (well, all economists are that) and destroyed Chili to advance his “theories”, which cost the lives of thousands of Chilians. He was a depraved idiot.