Twinkie Deathwatch: Day Two, The Snack Cake Standard

My logic here is a bit off.  If you’re going to base your monetary system on something (which is a bad idea for a lot of reasons) it should be something relatively rare like gold or silver.   Twinkies are fairly plentiful – at least right now.  Of course, if there were a Twinkie Standard one would assume you’d need to stockpile Twikies in some sort of Twinkie Ft. Knox resulting in at least a short-term shortage.  In fact a Twinkie Standard could require the nationalization of any private Strategic Twinkie Reserve such as RJ’s.  So, perhaps, it’s not completely off base.

Bottom line?  You probably shouldn’t rely on a comic strip featuring talking animals with thumbs for accurate information on monetary policy.

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