Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Kinda Funny

http://www.thebailoutgame.us/

The score represents the DOW, something I am not sure I agree with.

Maybe a better metric should be:
A. Unemployment Rate
B. Consumer Confidence (I hate the fact that I am implicitly advocating such an arcane metric)
C. Income Disparity
D. GDP
E. Wealth (Housing values, economic prospects, stock market etc.)

Maybe the stock market is not such a bad indicator of the overall economy, on an aggregate level. However, as the sole metric to maximize, there are some artificial things that can be done in the short term to really boost your score in this game.

ProTip: Do not let Lehman fail.

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