#33: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know with Howard Yaruss

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Howard Yaruss is an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who greatly enjoys explaining complex issues in a clear, interesting and easily accessible way. He graduated from Brown University, studied at the London School of Economics and earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

He has taught a variety of courses on economics and business, and currently teaches at New York University.
His book is titled Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
Some of the topics we discussed includes:

• Why have people lost faith in the economic system?
• Why and how the current economic system is creating greater inequality
• Why Howard made the conscious effort not to focus on terms such as 'capitalism and socialism' in the book.
• How us believing in money is perhaps the greatest opinion in mankind
• How the coverage of national debt has been so misleading
• How 'human capital' is the most empowering form of capital
• The actions people should take to get involved in understanding economics.

The Book and Audiobook: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know is out now.
You can find out more about Howard on his website https://howardyaruss.com/

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