One of my all-time favorite movies is “The Flim-Flam Man.” It came out in the late 1960’s. It starred George C. Scott as Mordecai Jones, a small-time itinerant con man. Jones did not do big cons. His were penny-ante schemes. He rode freight trains, tramped the back roads of the South, and relieved the locals of their money. Jones had a philosophy of life that he believed justified what he did to people. “You can’t cheat an honest man.” His schemes involved luring in suckers who were willing to cheat Jones or cheat someone else, using Jones as the intermediary. … Continue reading Flim-Flam Fed