Then you have that perception that you are phony.

If you go online right now, you'll get so much phony baloney information.

That's when you're perceived as fake, as a phony company advertizing things that you're not.

Because of a phony war on terrorism that massacres entire populations and takes thousands of young North Americans to their death?

Now, retrofits are often accused of being examples of faux downtowns and instant urbanism, and not without reason you don't get much more phony than an Astroturf town green.

But the SEC could do more than just avow its belief in uncensored and transparent crowd discussions. It should require that the intermediary sponsoring a platform install a surveillance system to guard against interference and shills offering phony comments.

Consider the Korean scientist Hwang Woo suk, whose claim to have extracted stem cells from human embryos that he cloned turned out to be based on phony research. Hwang has just been fired by Seoul National University, and six of his co workers have been suspended or had their pay cut.

Moreover, not forbidding indirect purchases should be seen primarily as a means of permitting banks that buy government bonds to pledge them as collateral for refinancing operations, while bearing the full investment risk. The distinction between bond purchases from the government and from the banks that bought them from the government is a phony one that gives rise to myriad possibilities for circumvention.

Such market optimism led to de regulation of financial markets in the 1980 s and 1990 s, and the subsequent explosion of financial innovation which made it safe to borrow larger and larger sums of money on the back of predictably rising assets. The just collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.