There are 315 million people and 13 million businesses in America. The tax code is 73,000 pages long. Visa and MasterCard process 4,000 transactions per second. Forty-seven million Americans are on food stamps, the 400 richest Americans are worth $2 trillion, 254 million antidepressant prescriptions are written annually, and in the time it took me to write this paragraph 13 Americans filed for bankruptcy, 22 were married, and 21 died.
The economy is so complex is it literally unfathomable. There are trillions of moving parts reacting to each other every second, often without making any sense or having any historical precedent.
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