quoms:

• Formally renaming the discipline of economics to “emporiomancy”
• Legally requiring all (former) economists to wear wizard robes with stock ticker symbols on them

there was a sports memorabilia store in the strip mall behind the McDonalds in my home town

there was also a coin collector store on the tentacle outskirts of downtown

they dabbled in comics and I dabbled in baseball cards at the turn of the 90s, as the first boomers introduced the collectibles market by remembering cheap common shit from their childhoods

BUT NO, they also share a heritage with those We Buy Gold & Silver stores (and the Merrill Lynch office nearer the center of downtown, as the predecessor to ‘90s “you’re a consultant who works from your own home office, why not day trade?” ads) as a business dedicated to alternative assets as vs. late70s/pre-Volcker inflation

(owning your own gold was prohibited in the US from ambiguously totalitarian executive order in 1933 until 1974. appreciating this makes me grok older goldbug paleolibertarians more.)