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Economics

Price Control Cartoons

Vintage propaganda

Jesse Walker | 12.9.2013 10:48 AM

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Start your week off with some vintage propaganda for price controls:

That's a World War II–era Canadian short called Dollar Dance. The director, Norman McLaren, would go on to far better things.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    So, squirrel away your money because of, um, inflation?

  2. Kid Xenocles   13 years ago

    I stopped watching when they warned of the possibility of $4 movie tickets.

  3. Ebriosa   13 years ago

    Did they also price control voice actors?

  4. CatoTheElder   13 years ago

    The amazing thing is that propaganda like this lame shit worked.

    And it still works.

  5. Aloysious   13 years ago

    You can tell it's propaganda. To a statist/progturd, your money is most certainly not *your* money.

  6. Raston Bot   13 years ago

    Ohhhhhhh so that's how you do it. Venezuela needs to watch this video because they're doing it all wrong what with shortages, power outages, mass unrest, and other bothersome little nitnoid wrinkles.

  7. Sevo   13 years ago

    War is the friend of the state.

    1. Libertymike   13 years ago

      It is, in the words of Randolph Bourne (no relation to Jason), "the health of the state."

  8. Hugh Akston   13 years ago

    $4 movie tickets?! Thank Galt our government and Federal Reserve Bank saved us from the inflation that would make possible such a nightmare scenario.

    1. Paul.   13 years ago

      You've misunderstood... they were talking about price supports. They didn't want to see movie tickets drop below $4. Like the price of milk or sugar.

  9. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    "Please install Adobe Flash"

    No.

  10. Almanian!   13 years ago

    "All money spent on things you do not need is wasted...."

    "I'm your buddy! I'm your friend!"

    Let's get one thing straight, which you Canadians NEVER seem to get right - I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND, PAL!

    1. Bones   13 years ago

      I'm not your guy, buddy!

      1. EDG reppin' LBC   13 years ago

        I've got your Buddy Guy!

        1. Aloysious   13 years ago

          I love Buddy Guy.

  11. The Late P Brooks   13 years ago

    "All money spent on things you do not need is wasted...."

    What we need is a list of "necessary things" so we don't succumb to our false consciousness.

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