Summary: Do you understand all the budget hoopla You shouldn't feel badly most Americans have difficulty separating smoke and mirrors from the real issues Our politicians really like it that way So in accordance with one listener's suggestion for a summertime show topic we'll start an Economics thread First John's boralogue detangles some of the budget debate nonsense from the last two weeks Then we'll see if economist Dr Joseph Salerno Ph D from the Ludwig von Mises Institute www mises org can unravel more of it for us Meanwhile the U N just hasn't been able to persuade several countries
