I finished up my Essentials of Economics class yesterday. Took a 2 hour exam on macroeconomics. I have to say that the class definitely exceeded my expectations. The instructor's goal was to allow us to pick up the Wall Street Journal and understand the majority of what's written in there. It's amazing how much I just used to gloss over most of those articles about the economy. I can only hope that every major world leader understands the basics of economics. Now that I finished the class I can't imagine having not taken it.
I found this opinion piece ( Democrats aren't innocent bystanders ) interesting on how both Democrats and Republicans share responsibility for polarizing the electorate and undermining some of its faith in democracy. It references two other posts that were pretty good as well: The Disease of Delegitimization The Weimarization of the American Republic The second article is really long and heavy on history. But given all of the comparisons people make between the current times and those of post-WWI Germany, I found it interesting to dive in to understand where the comparisons are coming from and how close we really are. The short answer is that we aren't that close (phew). Seems like post-WWI Germany was incredibly fragile. This was a good excerpt that summarized it: So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boo...
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