As the title indicates, this post is the follow up to a previous post. I recommend reading it before jumping into this one.
Enter Stan Marsh, just trying to return his family’s margarita maker. If there is any redemptive part of “Margaritaville” it is here.
First Stan attempts to return it to the retailer. The…
In a previous post, I lauded the economic lessons of South Park’s “Cash for Gold” episode. In this post, I must reverse my praise for the economics in an earlier episode, “Margaritaville.” The episode originally aired in early 2009 amid intense public debates over the global financial crisis.
The episode took on the cornucopia of …
A recent episode of South Park got me thinking that Matt Stone and Trey Parker just may know basic economics. The episode attempts to explain the jewelry business. It depicts old people buying jewelry at ridiculous prices from a home shopping channel and then giving it as gifts to their children. The children immediately take…
