You're surely not going to hear about reality on the Six O'Clock News. Besides, nobody understand economics. Reporters certainly don't. Bureaucrats certainly don't. The dumbed-down U.S. citizen certainly doesn't.
School teachers skip economic aspects when teaching history or politics.
Advertising agencies are terrified that the public will realize that the U.S. economy is headed for disaster. Nobody questioned this fiction because, in reality, the warlords were protecting their assumed right to levy taxes and accumulate wealth for themselves. Tell me that's all changed in this Age of Democracy. We elect our warlords and kings now. But the Government policy-makers better wise up.