Archive for August 19th, 2014

Cheap Tricks … err, make that cheaper tricks.

August 19, 2014

Warning: Adult Content.

The Economist – a reputable publication — recently reported the results of a groundbreaking economic analysis.

Specifically, staffers “analysed 190,000 profiles of sex workers on an international review site … with data going back to 1999 … with prices corrected for inflation.”

What did they find?

“The most striking trend our analysis reveals is a drop in the average hourly rate of a prostitute in recent years”

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What explains the 30% drop in prices?

Well, pardon the pun, it’s pure economics …

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