The simplest, most coherent, and most sensible explanation for the current economic condition

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
-Ernest Benn

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
-Nicholas Chamfort

In our case, those two professions collaborated. And you thought it was complicated.