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curuinor 4 hours ago

Look. This is a new golden age of cocaine, because of the big cuts in everything in the US took away the cocaine busting operations in Colombia and Bolivia, because the revolutionaries that previously kept control of it stood down and became a political party and new, profit-driven cartels came up, and because battery technology means that narcosubs and similar drone things work much better than before (and they can be made remote-operated, so the cops can't do shit even when they find one). Wholesale prices have halved or gone down 60% to like, 12k usd / kilo, street prices commensurate. The huge new opportunities created by increased market size have increased competition and made the cartel nature of the cartels decrease. So always think of that when you look at people acting like this and having such megalomaniac goals.

UltraSane 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It would be hilarious if the price of cocaine actually affected macroeconomics because of how it affects human behavior.

fhdkweig 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It actually might. It affected the mood of stockbrokers in the 1980s, both because of general energy levels and also because they were addicted and had to keep the money flowing. That must do something to macroeconomics.

twic an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a dataset for this? Maybe a Bloomberg ticker?

interestpiqued 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly you have a point. The decrease in cost of cocaine is very real