Skeptic Project

In a perhaps misguided attempt to relive our glory days, last week TPM enrolled in Glenn Beck's online "university."

The second installment of the Beck University lecture series was last night, and this time we learned the economic importance of hope, and that Beck University Professor David Buckner gets touchy at the airport.

The lecture, titled "Hope 101," aimed to explain the basic principles of economics. What does this have to do with hope? Well, according to Beck's introduction, "when it comes to our financial system in our country, it is hard to have hope." He asked: "How does this financial system even work? What is true?"

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