Uh-oh. We tread on very thin ice when we compare President Obama to a monkey. As we recall from the New York Post cartoon controversy, that quickly gets you labeled as a racist.
And yet one can’t watch this TED lecture from Yale psychology Professor Laurie Santos without coming to the conclusion that a monkey’s understanding of the free market is just as irrational as President Obama’s.
She taught our primate relatives to use currency and discovered that “monkeynomics” is very similar to Obamanomics because the primates also continue to repeat the same irrational mistakes over and over again.
By the way, if you’ve never visited VirtualProfessors.com, do it. It’s a great site that offers fascinating free lectures on a variety of fascinating subjects.
Source: VirtualProfessors.com
