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The United States is fighting wars on multiple fronts. Aside from our involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East, a hot war is being waged against economics.

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Basic economics says they needed to do neither since grain, like oil, automobiles, t-shirts, and anything else, is produced globally, and can be sourced globally.

This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most basic ideas of economics — scarcity, trade-offs and opportunity cost — as only Paul Samuelson could.