Country music has always been the way that America's working class relates to life's problems, whether it's a cheating heart, a lost job, drinking, fighting, guns, or freedom. And we're mostly working class now, even if we're not workin', since most of the money that didn't go up in smoke seems to have ended up in the hands of about 10,000 familes.
Now Merle Hazard answers bobswern and bonddad without the graphs and links that stupefy the rest of us.
If you have trouble understanding what's going on with our economy, if you wonder where your job went and whether you'll ever get another one, you need a little of this updated country music, which goes straight to the heart of the matter.
via Calculated Risk, Merle Hazard
Inflation or Deflation
And the story of how we've tried to bailout the collapse of the greatest financial bubble ever.
Bailout