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Valerie's avatar

Peter St Onge (a great economist if you aren’t familiar with him), had a great article this week with a similar theme:

https://open.substack.com/pub/profstonge/p/how-did-american-voters-get-so-dumb?r=z2cc5&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

He is very good. Explains things well.

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Valerie's avatar

I agree! I particularly like when he explains how the government has manipulated different economic numbers, like discontinuing counting the homeless as unemployed, because if they aren’t looking for a job they aren’t really unemployed. 🙄

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Anthony's avatar

And that's been going on since at least Obama.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Way before him

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Vonu's avatar

It has been going on since Alexander Hamilton.

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carily myers's avatar

agree, he's great

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