Each election cycle, we’re treated to politicians and their supporters crying about the disappearing middle class. So many people repeat the mantra that most of us just accept it as fact. It turns out that those people are right - the middle class is disappearing. Where they get the story wrong is that it isn’t bad news. It’s excellent news.
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Episode 302: Population Growth
Episode 301: 8 Billion
Episode 300: Economic Inequality in America
Episode 299: The Rights of the Dead
Episode 298: How do Treasury Bills Work?
Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?
Episode 296: Think Like an Economist
Episode 295: Must Government Control Money?
Episode 294: Article I, Section 8, Pt.2
Episode 293: Article I, Section 8, Pt.1
Episode 292: When Are We Adults?
Episode 291: An Interview with Ant and James
Episode 290: Loan Forgiveness and Lying to Pollsters
Episode 289: Woke-ism and Movies
Episode 288: What's a Recession?
Episode 287: Secession: Good for me but not for thee?
Episode 286: Balance in Discussing Guns
Episode 285: What’s News in the Economy?
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