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RT Rambo Van Halen (@RamboVanHalen)I've written about this before, but I often wonder how much of our "economy" is fake.Back in the day in Los Angeles there was a prevalence of "Cell Phone Accessory" stores. Sometimes several per block.We'd film on these dumpy commercial streets, and be working in front of these shops for days. But we wouldn't see a single customer enter or exit.The off duty cops we hired for traffic control explained that it's all money laundering. Same with the bodegas, the vape shops, an ...