Who has a long history of any understanding of the voodoo that's economics. The whole idea of a Caplitalist economy is 500 years old. American leadership is what like 70 years old, since WWI. No one know what they are doing, they just have money and so that have the ability to coerce people to do work to generate more money. As long as people work and money is generated through sales, you can make any rules to keep the game in play.