Chords for "MAMA ECONOMY" (THE ECONOMY EXPLAINED) ORIGINAL SONG by TAY ZONDAY Feat. LINDSEY STIRLING

[B] Are you confused about the economy?
Well have no fear.
[C#] I'm going to [D#m] explain the [B] American economy right now
_ _ The dollar just like the [F#] promise from the government
But [C#] the value of the dollar has to be there to be relevant [F#] the value [F] of the dollar [A#m] comes from China and our ban [D#m] when they
put the cash reserves [A#m] in a US dollar plan [B] gave our Treasury bond from [F#] the Federal Reserve
We [F#m] say we owe you extra money [E] cuz you gave us some of yours
[F#] That's a big part [A#m] of the national debt [D#m] all the interest that we haven't [A#m] paid a China quite yet
[B] And a hundred other countries cuz [F#] we're such a [C#] good investment the whole world [G#] gives us money
We [C#] say it will pay you interest.
[F#] This is [C] how money is created [F#] from a [D#m] bank that our [A#m] federal budget money isn't really there
[B] It's an IOU [F#] remember dollars are when [F#m] you borrow from a bank
It's [E] not from other depositors [F#] the money [A#m] for your loan gets created on the spot
Then they put it [F#] in your name gamble on your life and body
[B] But if you lose your job, [F#] then you were a bad bet [C#] if a million lose their jobs, [F] and we have a recession
[F#] Here's the dirty secret [A#m] your labor's too expensive
[D#m] What you spending money, [A#m] but they never want to pay you [B] in your life cash and credit
[F#] They are very different, [F#m] but you credit someone else's [E] cash once it leaves your name
[F#] this is why money is debt and your jet [D#m] is good for Wall Street prosperity [B] and
Economic growth [C#] since the 1970s as consumers getting credit without wages increasing [F#] when they talk [A#m] about the housing prices
[D#m] They never say we need to [A#m] lower housing prices
[B] We need better devices [F#] to afford high prices [F#m] meaning higher debt lower [E] because you're underpaid to begin [F#] with that's the cycle
We're in we don't [D#m] understand [F#] so all we can do is question [B] mama [C#] Me [D#m] _ [C#] understand _ [A#m] numbers
_ Fair _ [F#] plan [B] turning 30 [C#] 40 50 [D#m] gotta move in with [C#] my parents and [F#] the stocks go [A#m] up
But the jobs [F#] disappear
[B] Yeah, mama, [C#] you gotta meet [D#m] me me
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[B] Understand
Because wages barely grew [F#] for [C#] 40 years when you have I stuff
They delay the cost of [F#] ownership you [C] can't afford it so they make [F] it to depend [D#m] on in the small [A#m] transactions
Which is like renting [B] you pay more for better [F#] than you do for [F#m] gold and more for bottled water [E] than you do for oil
[F#] These are blades are made to oxidate [D#m] so you're forever in debt [A#m] to them just to see [B] it's a type of socialism [C#] called market
Socialism the best [G#] design [C#] product meet and even doesn't [F#] we subsidize waste with landfills and [D#m] holidays like a day team [A#m] kids recycle
[B] Please don't let it [F#] we live one world [F#m] view neoliberal [E] economics and all of their politics
[F#] They don't ask what corporations are human citizens
Oh, I've grabbed my piece what taxes cuz she likes to activity [B] or a private [C#] bankers print the public money
Why democracy is [F] broken cuz their leaders won't be [F#] cutting loopholes as [A#m] subsidies for constituent industry [D#m] putting legislative bodies [A#m] in a deep freeze
[B] So the [F#] PhDs and the GEDs [F#m] fly with I'm ran [E] down at the temp agency
[F#] And we believed [A#m] in meritocracy, [D#m] but there's more to the [A#m] story and to [B] me mama
[C#] You gotta [D#] meet me me
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[B] _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] Understand
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[F#] And the stocks [A#m] go up, but [D#m] the jobs [A#m] disappear _
[B] Mama, [F#] _ economy [D#m] make me [A#m]
understand
[F#] All the numbers, [D#m] why daddy's on a welfare [A#m] plan
Turning [B] 30, [F#] 40, 50, [D#m] gotta move [A#m] in with my parents
[F#] And the stocks [A#m] go up, [D#m] but the jobs [A#m] disappear _ _ _
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