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I didn't understand economy before, but now I realize it's because it's basically the world's biggest Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, for a lack of a better way to say it.
Yep it's mainly because the BS repeated on the media all the time is cherry picked stuff for self serving media owners.
They won't explain the only way they think worth of regulating inflation is making salaries less and unemployment high.
Or why some sectors are highly subsidized but there's no money left for what matters to people, even though the money printing machine has no limits, causes inflation, and is always available when military needs to expand spending.
Or why most "wealthy" economies spend more than they earn and it's ok to have an ever increasing debt even though countries pay dividends on it, which has to come from more debt that has more interest to be paid.
Not even tax brackets are understood correctly and the reason is the less people understand economy the easier to distract from real issues like genocide, money mismanagement, crime, corruption and other common place problems that impact people every day.
There's a wonderful channel that explains many things that go against mainstream, new economic thinking. It's backed by a college. https://youtube.com/@neweconomicthinking
I still don't understand economy.
Its just numbers numbers GDP buzzword buzzword blah blah, I have no idea how it works.
The economy is just people spending money. Is there enough money distributed to enough people who spend enough for enough businesses to employ enough people for enough of them to have enough money to spend? And the money has to trickle up.
At this point, it can be boiled down to [insert idea here] with an accessorized relation to money.