Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic

dimensions of our lives. I'm Richard Wolfe, your host. Today's program, we're going to be talking about

Boris Johnson and the end of an era in the United Kingdom. We're going to be talking about an

explosive revolt in Sri Lanka. We're going to talk about duplicity of American corporations

in the face of the Roe versus Wade upset decision

by the Supreme Court and more issues. And we will have a remarkable interview in

the second half with Mary Ann Williamson, so there's a good show in store today.

Let me begin by talking about Boris Johnson and saying,

we have come not to mourn him, but to bury him, and to say goodbye should have happened sooner.

But there are lessons in what happened to Boris Johnson that I want to draw out with you and for you.

And they have a lot of overlap with the story of one Donald Trump, which is of course

another reason to do this.

Boris Johnson, like Trump, was always on the outs with the elite establishment of Great

Britain.

He was the wild boy, the naughty boy, the one who said what shouldn't be said

and who did not understand how to comb his hair and fit in with everybody else

who runs British capitalism.

But you know, people like that that are on the outs are the ones that can serve a very useful function.

When the regular, normal, run-of-the-mill, middle of politics has made such a mess of it that everybody has had it up to here,

then how do you keep the same system going while appearing to change because of the mood of the country?

You need somebody who really isn't any different from the rest of them, but who looks different, sounds different, dresses differently.

The guy on the outs who can claim to be something different.

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