It has become an annual Thanksgiving ritual for news organizations (including Real Time Economics) to post Facebook-friendly explainers, aimed at millennials, on how to deal with ignorant uncles and the things they say about politics and Mexico and the economy and so on. But it may get tiring to hear tedious nephews and nieces interrupting with, “Actually, the relative poverty rate of Sweden is….” To help level the playing field, here are some key facts those aunts and uncles can use to put millennials in their place.

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