Was reading what felt like the 2000th article of the year on the problems besetting the U.S. and global economies, and just got tired of the endless complexity. To boil it down, here’s Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns performing “Dinero.”

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.