Le economiste fashioniste, Thomas Piketty, is in town and my generous wife thought tickets to his talk would be a wonderful present for me. I appreciated the thought, but said I’d rather she burned the cash in front of me.
Her heart was in the right place: she knew he was a left-wing economist, but thought I would still be interested in hearing what he had to say.
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