What Ghostbusters 2 Can Teach Us About Economic Recovery

One key supporter of TheBasisPoint who goes by H1ghway is a fellow pop culture nut, and like so many of us, feeling the prolonged economic pinch as a self-employed web consultant. His case is that: sure, we’ve finally got improving GDP. But yesterday’s 10.2% unemployment rate is proof of the increasing misery so many people can’t seem to shake.

So he’s been trying to get us to do a pop culture weave-in piece using a Ghostbusters 2 thread (since it’s apparently been showing on cable recently). As a reminder, the plot is that there’s a river of slime below New York that’s the source of all the misery, and the Ghostbusters have to find a way to make it go away or be forever doomed. We’ve struggled to make this connection, but H1ghway won’t relent and just sent the picture you see here for inspiration—it’s Dan Akroyd hanging over the slime river hellbent on finding a solution.

So our response to H1ghway was: “great pic, thanks. but what happens? does the slime just go away? can’t remember.”

H1ghway’s response: “that will probably require a viewing. but since you probably don’t have time … it’s something about killing Vigo reversed all the negative sh!t, and the slime-covered epicenter of doom receded into happy resolution with our heroes the ghostbusters prevailing, new yorkers and mankind alike were hugging their neighbors with all good cheer.”

Our response: “sweet. perhaps it’ll just be that simple.”

So there you have it. A rather convoluted pop culture tribute to this slime-covered economic epicenter of doom. But somehow fitting because all solutions are convoluted, and the only real solution is to keep working hard while also allowing some good bad TV to reverse all the negative sh!t.

And many thanks to H1ghway for the inspirational message … you Hang Tight as well brother.