Underwear Sales Are Rising. You Know What That Means...

Economic recovery!!!

I could not make this up.

… that people are starting to soil their pants, due to impending doom.

I have a friend who works as an archivist. Recently she was assigned to do research about documents related to the crushing defeat inflcted by General O’Connor to the Italian Army in Cyrenaica in 1941. The media stopped reporting about the battles lost and played up individual acts of bravery (my friend suspects a few were “embellished” to make them more palatable to the public) which did not matter to the final outcome. Then they talk ill about fascist propaganda…

Damn it! I knew I should have invested in underwear stocks!

This is not as odd as one might think. There are several Austrians that have indexes like the Sky Scraper Index and then there is the Box Index among others.

But the real insane part is the thought that this increase in business activity is real economic growth and not some mad spending spree of people trying to get rid of depreciating currency.

I believe there is also a theory about skirt lengths and the strength of the economy, the shorter the skirts the better the economy is.

I wonder what the author thought when I had to pay 4.17 a gallon for gas today (yesterday it was at 3.99)?