Macroeconomics for Startups Iβm not an economist. I donβt play one on TV. In fact, I only took one Econ class at Princeton (taught by Ben Bernanke, no less), and I barely passed it. In any case, while Iβm not an economist, I do read The Economist, religiously at that, and Iβve been reading so much about macroeconomic policies and news the past 18 months that I feel like I finally have a decent rudimentary grip on the subject. But still, the subject doesnβt always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does β most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. But who knows what monetary policy is and why they should care?β¦