A picture is worth a thousand words, and this cartoon of Fakestinian land, from some ignorant loon's blog, is worth a thousand words on typical Fakestinian bopkess, and the antisemitic mental defectives who shovel it.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

A fool hath no delight in understanding.

Mr. Cruz has been able to use his pseudo-intellectualism and his Ivy League pedigree as a cudgel.