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Inflation with Richard Wolff & Dean Baker

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Economics Is Just the Same

Many of the reporters, not the editors, not the owners of the newspaper or the t v station or the platform. They just don't get it because they've gone through our school systems. Economics is like that, very simple, but we have a language that makes it opaque. The people who run our newspapers, and i got to be honest with you, i've met with many of em,  they don't understand it either. But they're not stupid people. Everybody's smart as the rest of us. And they know that if they start talking anti capitalism, they're jeopardizing their job. If once you understand what they're doing, it becomes downright funny to watch

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