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Rick Huddle tries to explain the economic crisis in terms you can understand, using cigars and a fine aged scotch.
Courtesy of Barret Kammerzell
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If America’s best minds are wrestling with how best to confront the country’s financial woes, imagine the plight of John Q. Public, trying to make sense of it all.
Enter Rick Huddle, the local storyteller whose one-man show, “Spent,” opened at Theater Theatre Thursday night.
Huddle, by his own admission, is no economist. But he’s done some homework and, with the help of Power Point, proceeds to sketch the outlines of a global economic picture that dates to the Silk Road connecting China and the West.
In the primary transaction there, the Chinese began piling up Roman gold in exchange for silk, a fabric that became so popular that the emperor Tiberius was forced to pass an edict forbidding men from wearing it, according to Huddle. The Roman treasury was being depleted, it seems, for underwear, although women were presumably allowed to keep dolling up in the stuff.
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