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The Difference Between Comedy and Reality in Economics

A lot of people do not understand the difference when he is being funny and when heis being serious. I call this the jack benny effect. In a country as politically polarized as we are to day, there simply isn't a constituency for emphasizing all the things in america which are going well. When democrats are in charge, republicans never look at the things which were going well, and are always looking atat the wrong stuff. So essentially there is no constituency for for emphasizing edei the not necessarily optimistic, just the real state of of American standards of living.

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