Lindsay Lohan Will Let You Pay Her To Have Opinions On Monetary Policy

Things got a little weird Tuesday for enthusiasts of monetary policy when Hollywood ankle monitoring bracelet model and sometime actress Lindsay Lohan got all up in the Federal Reserve's grill on Twitter, sending out the following message:

Have you guys seen food and gas prices lately? U.S. $ will soon be worthless if the Fed keeps printing money! http://spn.tw/t1exbE #adless than a minute ago via Sponsored Tweets Favorite Retweet ReplyLindsay Lohan
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Why the sudden interest? Well, as it turns out, her Twitter-missive was a sponsored tweet -- a message she was paid to send. But as she endeavored to explain to an inquirer, "i actually do care about gas and food prices, so whether it's an #ad or no, it's important for people to be aware of it."

Of course, you might be wondering, "Who on earth would pay Lindsay Lohan to broadcast their opinions on the Fed? Clearly not someone who ultimately wanted to be successful at affecting Fed policy." Well, you'd be right. As SF Weekly reported, the tweet was sponsored by the National Inflation Association. As Dan Mitchell reports:

It seems likely that Lohan had no idea what the mysterious group was all about. I imagine she genuinely thought it was a grassroots outfit opposed looking out for consumers' welfare. As it turns out, though, it isn't interested so much in consumer rights -- or even in the fate of the economy -- as it is in selling often-marginal stocks in companies that deal in gold and silver. It's the stuff of Glenn Beck and late-night informercials, and, more to the point, of sleazy stock spammers.

MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe earlier this month described the two guys behind the NIA as "stock jockeys, one of them being a notorious pump-and-dump schemer from the Internet bubble era."

(Later, Lohan retweeted a link from HuffPost Green directing readers to Bill McKibben's piece, "If Brazil Has to Guard Its Rainforest, Why Does Canada/U.S. Get to Burn Its Tar Sands?" Obviously, she does McKibben no favors, but for what it's worth, she did it for free.)

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Comments

[Candice Hall]

02:05 PM on 07/07/2011

I was the one who wrote "Fact Checking the National Inflation Association" article that shares the first Google page results for the name. I guess after my acerbic analysis, NIA wanted to reach out to the younger, female demographic. Too bad young women like me don't want to listen to anyone in an orange jumpsuit behind a mound of cocaine.

[hollace]

06:08 AM on 07/03/2011

less coke for a buck?

[GEM-592]

02:46 PM on 07/01/2011

Gettin' old here ... I can remember when this would have sounded strange.

[DaniFoxy]

10:46 AM on 07/01/2011

What? Is there any doubt that she is high? What a nutbag.

[mandalay007]

09:14 PM on 06/30/2011

why can't she go away-------boy, has she had face work done----surprised she can still afford it----the jobs aren't flowing in---------maybe she and T. Woods can cook up a biz deal (no, not what you are thinking), relative to how to obtain endorsement f adsrom bottom-tier companies

[cdme86]

09:09 PM on 06/30/2011

i think it's safe to say that any opinion the girl can muster is surely paid for and spoon fed.

[knott wrench]

08:31 PM on 06/30/2011

Is she starting to save money for the;

Prison, Inmate Conservation Camp Commissary, so she can buy her basic necessities and "Smokes", when she Finally Faces a "REAL"Judge who sends her to "Pull some "Time".

"Doin' 15, 15 to Life'" MSNBC "Lock-up", Cochran Prison, episode.

[MPFIED]

07:16 PM on 06/30/2011

I'd just as soon take advice from the Tickle Me Elmo before I'd listen to anything she had to say.

Between being fitted for ankle monitoring bracelets and being bailed out of jail, when has she had time to formulate an opinion on policies?

[oldguru]

07:03 PM on 06/30/2011

Pffft! Like anybody with a brain is going to take advice from that drughead.

[morefromLA]

06:35 PM on 06/30/2011

If it'sLindsay or George I'm going with Lindsay every time. She might not duck shoes as well but tell me she doesn't look better in a flight suit.

[Carl Caroli]

03:57 PM on 06/30/2011

I wouldn't pay her to (fill in your own dig).

[morefromLA]

06:36 PM on 06/30/2011

I wouldn't either but charity is welcomed.

[tribal sovereignty]

03:30 PM on 06/30/2011

Lindsey Lohan is speaking for Glenn Beck? I think Beck just gained a little more credibility.

[TrollHunter365]

03:12 PM on 06/30/2011

#listentothedumbb!tch

[morefromLA]

06:37 PM on 06/30/2011

Let me give you a lol fave before the moderators catch you!

[Stacy Jones]

02:25 PM on 06/30/2011

All of her tweeters are sponsored #getarealjob #howissherelevantanymore

[kamachanda]

01:32 PM on 06/30/2011

If she'd just print the ad on her panties she could get it all over the media every time she gets out of a limo.
Of course the purchaser may have to supply the panties.