Dear Friends:

That balloon story I recently posted may be a fake. It is, according to this.

Thanks to Roderick Long for pointing this out to me, and to Tom Woods and several others for calling this into question.

On the other hand, here and here are sources in support of this story, as I had posted:

If I have mislead people, I apologize. I’m still not sure at the present time if my posting was correct or not. All I can say is that if this was a fake, it was a very good one.

The Best of Walter E. Block