November 8, 2007 (LPAC)--The economic advisers to the Presidential candidates will debate November 9th at the National Press Club. Here, Rudy Giuliani will be represented by Michael Boskin, a fanatical virtual-economy globalist, senior fellow at George Shultz's Hoover Institution and Stanford University economics professor. Boskin is chief economic adviser to "Gaia," a virtual investment world wherein teenagers learn to be zombie speculators, while immersed in Anime and video games. Gaia Interactive announced September 17th that Boskin would chair the Council of Economic Advisors for Gaia Online, a "virtual world" with 2.5 million monthly participants engaging in more than 100,000 daily transactions. Gaia said Boskin's new Council would provide "ongoing analysis and guidance" of the virtual economy.

Boskin himself commented that an economy is an economy, regardless of whether the participants are teens in a virtual world or captains of industry in the physical world (paraphrased by CNET News.com).