{"id":15093,"date":"2012-07-19T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:31:29","slug":"limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I got an interesting e-mail from my cousin Andy who lives in St. Louis. He said, &#8220;You know, I got a tweet, Rush. One of my friends said you need to redo your Economics 101 lecture on zero-sum game and how this economy\u2019s not one. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_64930\" class=\"img_\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\"\/><BR\/>He said, &#8220;That Rush lecture is what turned me and helped me to understand the economy.&#8221; His point is that the only reason this class envy stuff works is because of the people that don\u2019t understand the economy. They think it\u2019s a finite number. And the rich are grabbing up more and more and more of it. And if the rich get more and more, everybody else gets less and less. And, of course, that\u2019s true, if you\u2019re talking about a zero-sum game. But we do not have a finite economy.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what growth is all about. How can you have economic growth if the pie never gets bigger? But a lot of people do not instinctively understand that. They think that there\u2019s only so much money, there\u2019s only so many businesses, there\u2019s only so many customers, there\u2019s only so many products. And if they don\u2019t get in on it early on, they\u2019re gonna never get in on it. It\u2019s a zero-sum game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I got an interesting e-mail from my cousin Andy who lives in St. Louis. He said, &#8220;You know, I got a tweet, Rush. One of my friends said you need to redo your Economics 101 lecture on zero-sum game and how this economy\u2019s not one. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game.&#8221; He said, &#8220;That Rush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I got an interesting e-mail from my cousin Andy who lives in St. Louis. He said, &#8220;You know, I got a tweet, Rush. One of my friends said you need to redo your Economics 101 lecture on zero-sum game and how this economy\u2019s not one. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game.&#8221; He said, &#8220;That Rush [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"headline\":\"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-19T16:31:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\"},\"wordCount\":238,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\",\"name\":\"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-19T16:31:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f06f02db847ac306948a0874b0e230a8fb6528ad35f73d41a1e6070670276c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f06f02db847ac306948a0874b0e230a8fb6528ad35f73d41a1e6070670276c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: I got an interesting e-mail from my cousin Andy who lives in St. Louis. He said, &#8220;You know, I got a tweet, Rush. One of my friends said you need to redo your Economics 101 lecture on zero-sum game and how this economy\u2019s not one. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game.&#8221; He said, &#8220;That Rush [&hellip;]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/"},"author":{"name":"GeorgePrayias","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"headline":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game","datePublished":"2012-07-19T16:31:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/"},"wordCount":238,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/","name":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg","datePublished":"2012-07-19T16:31:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LimbaughInstituteEconomics101.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/19\/limbaugh_institute_economics_lecture_101_the_economy_is_not_a_zero_sum_game\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Limbaugh Institute Economics Lecture 101: The Economy is Not a Zero-Sum Game"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f06f02db847ac306948a0874b0e230a8fb6528ad35f73d41a1e6070670276c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f06f02db847ac306948a0874b0e230a8fb6528ad35f73d41a1e6070670276c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}