Chick depicts the company's meteoric rise in an opening credits sequence and we never get a sense of the exultation and crazy riches of the two brothers as the company begins nor of the heady
flim - flam atmosphere of that mad, insane blip in American business history
when a guy and a computer could sit in his basement and make millions.
We were alerted in a paper by Gavin «Learning From a Simple Model» http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/learning-from-a-simple-model/ on April 10, about
flim flam detectors — that
when someone does a simplified calculation to prove everyone wrong we should subject it to more critical scrutiny.