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To: flatsville who wrote (57845)	1/14/2001 1:42:37 PM
From: Roads End	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

The state of California invented the term disfunctional. Their markets only reflect its citizens in many respects. I wouldn't as you do, call them idiots.

To: flatsville who wrote (57845)	1/15/2001 1:31:12 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<Charges of price-gouging are an infallible sign that the person making the accusation is an economic idiot.> <Maybe the real idiots are the one's who have bought the myth that this is truly a simple supply/demand situation...that the disfunctional CA market couldn't possibly have created the opportunity for gouging-type of behavior or that some might take advantage of it and act on it.> The second part of your statement is probably true in any market, indeed any interaction between even just 2 individuals.... IMO that does not preclude truth in the first statement.. indeed it spotlights the simplicity of it as an economic truth. As is so often the case, the rest of your supporting statements, jabs, and links are used to rebut a point not made. DAK