You may be broken, but you are still a delicious treat! 🙃

Look, I strongly disagree with where Cass lands, but here again we see 'the economy' is not simply an agglomeration of macroeconomic indicators but a vision of good/well-managed society. So you can spit data at him, but it won't change his *belief* that white patriarchy is the best form of society.

But I could see Cass was channelling this same suspicion. Why was asking if Americans are willing to pay higher prices to support tariffs, he says the question should be: Would you rebalance the economy [away from] cheap consumer goods and [towards] other factors... important to people?”

I had some thoughts about this:
Firstly, most economists are driven by data (this is good). But even I chide economists for this, because they are so fixated on the *available* data they don't really consider gaps in the data, analytical leaps in the method or alternative explanations.

It would be easy to miss the plant on the window frame. Phenomenal. 👏

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Sometimes the 'reality' of a caricature is not what is illustrated, but rather the moral standing (and lack thereof) of the illustrator themselves and their target audience.

Don't forget 'Yellow Peril' portraying Chinese men as savage rapists.