Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 29, 2020

I’ll just put in a word for “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt.

Sir Desmond Glazebrook understood economic theory!

Always consult an “expert” when you’re in the middle of an economic collapse. They’ll be able to backwards engineer it. They won’t really have a clue (few so-called economists do being evangelists for their particular theory), but it’s always fun to hear an expert" fudge it.

In my experience, Economics is like the weather. If you spend a penny in a gumball machine in Clinton, IL, it might just cause a 2,000 point rise in the Hang Seng Index. It really would take a mind like John Nash’s to be able to plumb the chaos and come up with something like a workable theory for even a small fragment of it.

Just because economics isn’t boring doesn’t mean it has suddenly become interesting. Sometimes the terminology can bring on a terminal headache, while the results of a monthly budget session can leave the average homeowner seeing red.

(G)od bless you Handsome Al Mandelstaam, wherever you are…

Economics can be fun when it makes you some money!

It’s boring if you don’t have money…..

First words out of prof’s mouth on first day of first semester of Econ 101: “Demand is infinite; supply is finite; all else is commentary.”

I’m sure the check is in the mail, or does he prefer bitcoin?

Why Planet “Money” instead of “Planet Money”?

love Freakanomics. Haven’t tried Planet Money. Art of Manilness is a cool podcast but not as much about cash.