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# Sanders-Cruz Debate: Economics
- URL: https://coreyjmahler.com/sanders-cruz-debate-economics/
- Published: 2017-02-09T13:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-13T22:25:37.000Z
- Author: Corey J. Mahler
- Tags: International Politics, Economics

## Volume as Substitute for Knowledge

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The Sanders-Cruz debate was a welcome breath of fresh air in our otherwise stagnant national political discourse. Of course, it would be more welcome if Senator Sanders could find the time to take a remedial economics course, but that may be too much to expect from a man who once described the classroom as "boring and irrelevant"[\[1\]](#fn1).

As a general rule: If you cannot label[\[2\]](#fn2) the following chart, you should not be discussing economics.

![supply-and-demand.a81e8fd09328476da715320cdb396375-1](https://coreyjmahler.com/content/images/2022/09/supply-and-demand.a81e8fd09328476da715320cdb396375-1.png)

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1. While it is tempting to make the easy "much like Mr. Sanders himself" remark, it would be inaccurate; in truth, Senator Sanders is seldom boring (if often tedious) and far from irrelevant (as he has quite a following amongst the illiterati). [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. For Mr. Sanders, I would even be willing to go so far as to offer him some letters with which to start: D, P, Q, & S. [↩︎](#fnref2)