I shared two columns (here and here) about economics humor in 2022 and another two (here and here) in 2021.
Today is our first collection of economics-themed satire for 2022 and we’ll start with this video highlighting government achievements.
Our second item was probably inspired by Elizabeth Warren.
Next we have some satire that contains a very important lesson.
Our fourth item was probably inspired by Crazy Bernie.
I always save the best for last and this cartoon strip about the Federal Reserve hits the spot.
I’ll end with a serious point. I can understand why the Fed adopted easy-money policies at the start of the pandemic. But I don’t understand why they maintained that approach in the last half of 2021 and all of 2022. That would be a great question the next time Fed Chairman Jerome Powell testifies on Capitol Hill (not that there are many politicians smart enough to pursue that line of questioning).
P.S. You can enjoy additional economics humor here and here.
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I agree with regard to the 2:50 comment and fair enough with regard to the 2:57 comment.
interesting. You still have not changed my mind.
I am sure a lot of people are good at heart. However, people come up with all sorts of the things the government can and should do. However, if you suggest that their taxes be increased to pay for them they look at you in horror. They always expect someone else to pay.
No bait and switch. I was just trying to find out what other things, if any, other people had to provide for her.
Housing and food for the poor are paid for by taxes. If that means all those who don’t need those things are slaves, then all those who don’t need interstates or federal parks are slaves.
Yeah, you are, as a matter of fact.
“much more interesting than you”
“you are free to leave at any time”
I didn’t make any pejorative comments like that about you.
Susan,
Don’t mind Phil. He’s an acquired taste, but I think at heart a good guy. However, do keep an eye out for his bait and switch. Like when you said housing and food are not rights, and he responded by asking if you use roads or other things provided by taxes. He ignored your point about rights and tried to turn it into a discussion about the virtues of govt.
I totally agree things like housing cannot be rights. If I have a right to free housing, that is akin to saying I have a right to seize your house. The layers of taxes and government programs obscure this underlying reality, but it’s still reality. Of course, society can still choose to give me free housing! I just don’t have a right to it.
Wow! And I am the one that is touchy?
There are few people that cannot contribute to society in some way. I still do not believe in Housing and Food being a right. Rights are things like freedom, not free stuff. You have not convinced me otherwise. You have said nothing to change my mind.
I never had long term insurance, nor a pension plan. You do not get these things if you change jobs.
What I have is a reserve fund for emergencies. I have been putting money aside for a long time. You never know the future.
What I also have is the most precious of all, a support system of friends and family. They have helped me at bad times as I have done for them. (However, getting old has its own problems as friends and family die. So this is rather an evolving system.)
There is also charity. I good way to give to the unfortunate or to provide the things the government does not.
I’m not pissed at anything. And I would hope jazz would be more interesting than me. A little touchy, aren’t you? What would happen if you lost everything and were the victim of a terrible car accident? What would happen is that the state would care for you for as long as you lived. All those slaves out there working for you because you are incapacitated. And don’t tell me about your long term health insurance because yours went belly up (many have) and it wouldn’t pay for medical bills anyway.
I went off to dance and listen to jazz. Much more interesting that you.
Well you are free to leave at anytime if you do not like how all taxes are used for. Life is a give and take. I do not like how all taxes are spent, but that can happen in a free society. You cannot control everything.
I pay my fair share of taxes, so I do not get a free ride. I have since my first job and 18 and now at almost 80 I am still working and still paying taxes. You can look at taxes as pooling societies money to pay for things to benefit the society.
Maybe you are pissed at my comment because you expect a free ride. Or, my taxes are not being spent how you would like them to be spend. Or, by your comment I am also enslaved because I pay taxes.
But you are using the taxes of others. Isn’t that enslavement? Maybe I don’t want those things.
I pay taxes, so I do pay for all that stuff. It is not free if you pay for it.
Hi Susan,
I’m just curious. Do you not use the roads that were built by taxes or the schools or the parks or the medications or the food that was made possible by local or federal taxes?
When people I know talk about rights (like right to housing and food) I ask who they will enslave. If they get it for free someone must be producing it for free. Making people produced something for free feels like enslavement for me.
Why fed adopting easy-money policy was the right decision?
I enjoy the humor, Dan, but why not poke fun at those on the right? Presidents on the right have been about as bad, maybe even worse, than those on the left at driving up our national debt.