So earlier today on this bright-sunny-man-this-is-great-it’s-not-cold-just-yet November day, I read this via Sports Business Daily:

StubHub this morning confirmed that tonight’s Game Six has become its highest-grossing event in company history. The game now ranks ahead of Phillies-Yankees Game Two, Super Bowl XLIII, Phillies-Yankees Game One, and the ‘09 Florida-Oklahoma BCS Championship game, respectively.

Makes sense. Tickets to new Yankee Stadium are expensive to begin with; when you get high demand for an already high price, the price is driven upwards, especially considering this could be a clinching game. Yes, I took economics freshman year of college. And I passed.

But see, that’s for normal people. The unprivileged types. Why, if you happened to be involved with the government in Washington, you don’t have to deal with silly demand-influenced prices spikes. From the Wall Street Journal:

Federal lawmakers and people who work for them have gotten their hands on scores of tickets to the sold-out World Series games this year between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies courtesy of a perk not available to the public.

Major League Baseball and the teams sell a limited number of prime seats to lawmakers and congressional aides at face value, often hundreds of dollars less than the going rate.

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Because the recipients pay for the tickets, the offer complies with ethics rules for Congress and the executive branch. The arrangement, however, highlights what some ethics watchdogs say is a loophole in recently tightened congressional ethics rules, which ban officials from receiving just about any gifts.

Wait, wait, wait: lawmakers are using loopholes in which to gain an advantage? Man, how crazy. I’ve totally never heard of something like this in U.S. government. Somebody get Obama on the phone this instant.