Irony: Kerry did no better than Bush at Yale

[kcballer21]

I don't even think it's that hard to learn, but people seem to find it terribly boring and no one learns it unless they have to.

I know what you mean. The concepts are pretty intuitive. The only thing that might not be so intuitive is comparative advantage. Otherwise, when you get to the more statistical side of economics it becomes pretty complicated, more rigorous.

The thing with the president is that his advisor, Greg Mankiw, is a good economist, so you would think that by default as long as George read what was written for him, he would make some economic sense. It's funny how politics changes all that.