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One of my kids had me in stitches tonight…

They said they’d overheard a couple of their teachers talking about the economy and Trump last week.

They butted in and said ‘you’re talking about caterpillarism, aren’t you?‘

To which her teachers burst out laughing…and then said ‘you mean capitalism?’

And they said ‘yes, that’s what I said’

And then the penny dropped for me from last week’s parent’s evening…their teacher had laughed when talking about my kid’s unusual use of language…

Juggling With Eggs

So I’ve got a vision of as the Hungry Caterpillar in my head, increasing his greedy tariffs every day this week, thinking he’ll cocoon himself up at his golf course and then be hailed as an economic genius by the the end of the week…

What are the chances?

@JugglingWithEggs yep, more maggot (magat) than caterpillar though I think. He won't turn out to be a beautiful butterfly. He'll emerge from the cocoon as an annoying blowfly. ;? )

@smitjo

And now the Hungary Caterpillar is talking in my head…

“What do you mean I can’t charge tariffs to penguins? It’s gonna be ‘beautiful’ I tell you, those ‘nasty’ penguins are not gonna rain on my parade when I am declared the bigliest of big economic geniuses.”

@JugglingWithEggs Might look like him but it’s smarter and has better hygiene.