Stringer Bell's Macroeconomics 

i have a different question to you, what type of font was used in the beginning hm? it looks very stylish and cool you know

Hi Puchoo, thank you for your comment :) The font is called Futura.

thanks man much obliged !

A-. Translation: "smart, but not the smartest guy in the room".

Nicholas Hudson-Ellis gh

Knowledge without the experience. It was his downfall.

it's called 'delusions of grandeur' , typical in novices.

Give him credit, at least he’s trying to apply what he learned

@@Rorschach003 To be fair to String i bet he was probably the only one in his class actually running a business matter of fact he was running two to 3 business so he really needed to apply his knowledge quickly

@@saadasaad8538 fr. It’s probably the reason he went to school

Mike Bertram yassssssss - i just saw that clip a laughed too loud

"Is you". Stringer said IS.

"Is you". Stringer said IS.

I definitely believe the writer threw things in like this for the viewer. I don't know the series that deeply but too many different things in the various clips I have seen indicate that the writer wanted to make viewers draw certain connections themselves and see the hidden symbolism.

Well put. This show is one of those shows you have to watch more than once to catch all of the symbolism. Missed that the first time. That A- is so subtle, but perfectly reflects Stringer. Almost perfect. Almost...

You know, I missed that before. That's deep shit.

franciso7 Im white but i don't like Stringer Bell because he killed Dee. That said, i do like him better than Avon or Marlo. I would have liked him and Prop Joe to actually succeed because at least, they kept the killing to a minimum level, to a point where the violence, the people caught in crossfire, would have stopped.

+franciso7 Agreed. Stringer's death always felt forced. David Simon kind of telegraphed it later when he admitted he was angry that people liked Bell and viewed him as a hero. Stringer wasn't perfect and you could make a case that he thought he was smarter than he was, but it felt like the writers killed him just to kill him for shock value. And then loved it when the audience was shocked.

That's more of a Baltimore thing though. Dragging the W sound

Nah we don't say it like that. More like "downwivit"

IrW!N 83 nah that’s not BMore. Duuuuu It would be the BMore accent.

yep i noticed that.

@@irwn8328 DEW it v. INNIT hehe

That’s called the Socratic method.

well not so much feel smart i think he's just scoping out the talent yk

@@adityashrestha2774 It's both. It's also the best way for people to remember broad concepts, for them to reach the conclusion on their own. Talent scout, Motivator, and Mentor. Stringer Bell is the ultimate crime lord.

Not to mention everyone there would’ve been just been like “but yo why we changing our shit who give a fuck a fiend is gon fiend”

He had potential to be so bright, just misplayed a couple situations badly - or maybe he didn't? At the end of the day, this was Avon's operation, not his. He was trying to be kingpin when he didn't have final say. The Mouzone thing was not his idea.

Fr, and all the shit that happened in the 1st season would have never happened lmao

fuckkkk this is such a good idea. can you imagine a spinoff with D and wallace running the printing shop? legends

@@SuperSpiderme what legend? ziggy is the true legend! legend of the docks

Max Henderson A spinn off! Could have been a melodramatic 90-Ish sitcom. D as the adopted Dad and Wallace trials and tribulations going to high school...😂. Would have a moral at the end of the story, with D giving a speech to Wallace at the end...in the printshop. D complaining about String’s managerial tactics, not deciding whether the print shop should go legit or not or remain a front...lol

Omg hahah for real!

Legato RedWinters lol! Good one

Stringer is not that dude.

@I'm So Fly Putting out a hit vs strong-arming. Two separate actions. That's why I said he's not that dude. Stringer is a shot-caller through his associations with Avon, but he's not a goon or a henchman.

@I'm So Fly Exactly; if the professor refuses, he'd approach Slim Charles and be like "I need you to hit somebody".

@yo pierre LOOK DADDY I GOT AN A+!!!

Stringer was the type of guy who didn't respect the people he rolled with intellectually he thought he was far superioir, that's the reason he got.... erm, yea that.

"Players come and go but the game stay the same".

your comment might as well have been "it's weird watching season 5" and that would have made sense on its own (still love it though!)

That's what made this show insane. They made the villains even worse than their predecessors, without flanderizing the characters.

No, the inanity of this so-called drug war is the integral part of the series. Players come and go, but the game remains the same. I know you guys like the characters and the actors, but the writing and the direction are bigger stars in this series to me. The cast is ensemble, so they all come together to bring about the writers' and director's vision.

Sorta like when Dr Melphi learned what Tony was doing

considering there were at least five dealers in any one of my business classes I really wouldn't be surprised if the professor just wasn't phased

D-Ice's baby brother naw he definitely didn’t know

J Diggiti The Wire and The Sopranos, two of the greatest shows to ever be made

@@Blballerboy I agree that I doubt that the professor knew what Russell Bell was doing. In that world he was referred to as Russell and nobody probably knew that people called him Stringer.

He somehow faked his death in the Wire, changed his name and background to Charles Miner and got a job with Dunder Mifflin, moving to Pennsylvania

@@shanesuperville766 Dunder Mifflin was years later. His first attempt at a legitimate life was in Sanacoya Steel. But he couldn't stop holding steel....

Holy shit he was wearing a bulletproof vest when Omar and Mouzone shot him lmao. New headcannon.

OneToo Many I thought it was Saticoy Steel.

@@shanesuperville766 This is what the internet is for. Such brilliance!

Lol man I can't unhear that shit now. He is such a great actor though that he makes me forget he has an accent.

JACKOTACO I caught that lol

JACKOTACO it's crazy because once I found out he was British years ago, I notice myself trying to hear his accent in the wire and I can hear it more and more now lol

Nah I think he was trying to do a Baltimore accent where they pronounce their two’s and do’s real different. I learnt that from this show

Stringer has reverted back to his Brit accent a few times on the show... McNulty, too.

Well put

This excellent analysis right here.

I really like this, but I don't think McNulty hated Stringer, but was rather just obsessed with him as a criminal smart enough to challenge him intellectually. McNulty's vanity made him think that he was the only cop smart enough to see the value in going after a target such as Stringer, but I never got a sense that he was jealous of Stringer going on to higher education.

McNulty was smart as hell and they were practically friends.

Great insight

not that successful he got blasted

I did good too so should i be a drug dealee

Only if you have a superior product for the aggressive marketplace

"Desire, Consumer need" ~ Stringer Bell

You're alive. He's pumped full of lead. It looks like you came ahead on this one, boss.

"Lock dat door."

😂😂

This is the funniest comment I’ve read in a week

LMAO this could actually have happened if Brother Mouzone was in the room.

Lol

There was a similar chapter in Saviano’s Gomorrah. There was even a paragraph about some mafia groups sending their « smart ones » to the Bocconi, the main Italian business school in Milan.

More Like, stringer Could INTIMIDATE PPL UNDER HIM!😂🤣

Maybe in a different life.

I have no doubt in my mind that Bodie would be sharp in anything he did. He would've been a good student, manager, etc in life given the opportunity. Felt bad for him the most in the whole series.

@@GhettoArabSage But he killed Wallace.

@@erelpc a lot of company men do things that are bad for the sake of their company.

@@GhettoArabSage Yeah he was good at a lot except being a decent human being or a friend.

@@GhettoArabSage that's a fact.

words and emotions cause change how a blind men see. u dig

Jennifer M but Bodie improved on the initial answer. Changing the colour of the caps is a good plan, but quite an obvious one. Bodies suggestion takes far more cunning and intelligence, which is why he got the big praise

Jennifer M Did you shoot him?

did that person smirk like brodie did?

See what you got there is an elastic answer. If some guy can convey it better, louder and more understandable, the crowd will buy from him

Might just be me, but I'd rather have education available to more people no matter what they do with it than have it restricted. I have faith that it would do more good than harm in the long run.

Lol I used my knowledge of chemistry class titrations to mix up some drugs for a friend. My drug dealer friend had brain damage from a drug induced accident. He couldn't do math and couldn't figure out how to mix up the drug. We did up like a hundred vials. I spent hours being as careful as I could to give it a good mix. I had to dilute a powdered drug into water, mix and mix and mix drop and drop into vials like I was handing out cards at a poker table. At the time I was actively considering becoming a cop. I was forced to get involved because he couldn't understand the advice I was giving. It was one of those super strange moments in life. I ended up doing 100-200 vials of the shit. I went away and the guy started mixing up his own batches. Some dude allegedly OD'd and died. It was such bizarre shit.

@@dixonhill1108 based

@@dixonhill1108 family friend studied chemistry at Stanford, dealt the whole time, then left the country to take a "job" in Mexico. You could have a similarly bright future ahead if you, if you're lucky

@@dixonhill1108 also, I took another life path, and while it did end with me practicing criminal law, I don't have to hit up my friends that do to tell you to delete your comment. That's not legal advice, but it is good life advice.

stringer was very smart but he was green and worse he was arrogant to a fault.

Nah man he didnt respected the game thats what got his ass smoked. He wasnt street enough for this shit, he thought everythings about money, but the game aint all about that

@@MultiSurfa it's about "brother"

@@MultiSurfa 100% correct, Stringer was smart, just not street smart enough, like Avon.

@@ANTHONY0808able Avon: "What did I tell you about playing them fucking away games?"

@@SuperKnux64 Also Avon twice: Stringer was right man! Avon was just as flawed because he was a hothead

High Guise to be fair, I doubt them corner boys would show up. And even if they did, they wouldn't be able to sit still/grasp what was being taught. It shows it in the show that most of those dudes (if not all) left school to pursue a more "lucrative" career field in peddling to fiends and fighting other crews for territory.

Most of these cats don't even have their GED. How are they going to take a college Econ 101 class?

@murray1234567891011 What you mean I gotta qualify myself? Sheeeeeeeeettt

@@YaowBucketHEAD and why wouldnt they be able to grasp what they were hearing?

If he shows up with the goon squad it attracts the wrong kind of attention. Plus if you drop out of 8th grade you can't be expected to understand college level courses. He needs them corners ran by no-options-having teenagers so they don't get cute and his profit stays very high. Smart educated workers come at a higher premium and they definitely gonna see they getting the shit end of things.

Damn get of of Idris' nuts already. Even DeNiro isnt perfect.

“And nuttin been done!” That’s where I hear it.

Just like Jax from Sons of Anarchy, his accent comes out in heated dialogue

Nah that was actually a Baltimore accent he was doing. So very much in character he just wasn’t capable of doing it all the time like prop Joe and snoop

Stringer doesn’t share his knowledge. He condescends and talks down to his peers because he doesn’t respect them. Stringer is just a college freshman who thinks because he took Econ 101 he knows everything even though every decision he makes in the show is wrong.

I fully agree. I see ppl comparing Stringer to college freshmen like it’s a diss but Stringer, like those freshman, is excited about what he’s learning. That’s why he shares what he’s learned and puts it into practice. It’s not like he’s gonna be Adam Smith after one semester.

and then they all look at each other like "dah wut?" shit...is that a website thingy or some shit yo ? lol

Nah he wouldnt be the same ghetto made him this way

@Robert Slack watch the show

That could be said for a lot of the Game’s players: -Bodie with his familiarity with the legal system (even if he botches the terms sometimes) could have been a lawyer. -Wee Bey with his interest/passion for his fish could have become some sort of marine biologist -Omar could have used his interest in Greek/Roman mythology as a jumping off point to become a Classics scholar/teacher

Exactly. Avon's first reaction was always to go shoot somebody. They were both flawed, but people jump to conclusions about Stringer because he was more ruthless. Avon admitted String was right two times

There’s begging admirable about stringer. He doesn’t aspire to get out the game or be a good person. He aspires to be a ruthless capitalist. He wants to be clay Davis but he’s too stupid to be clay Davis. He aspires to exploit others and be a higher level crook but isn’t smart enough to be that. Nothing about that worthy of respect.

Yeah he thinks he's so smart, and while he IS SMART and VERY capable, he can't completely relate his business logic to the street. When he goes halfway for both, and tries to dupe people in both businesses, he gets burned at both ends since he can't plan for everything.

😂😂

@D-Ice's baby brother You know that Jimmy McNulty and Jim Halpert had something in common with not like Stringer Bell or his alias Charles Minor.

Ain’t that some shit? He got reincarnated as Charles Miner.

The name Stringer Bell no longer had credibility. Had to change his name to Charles Miner. To further solidify the difference, he learned to talk in a British accent and became soccer fan to add credibility.

From big Drug Dealer to a suck-up, that's more pathetic than his death.

that's true, they never had a chance.

it shows that that we need to re think how we educate people, not everyone fits into the classroom structure but under the right guidance and environment can easily grasp complex subjects. Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity isn't

@@tariqmohamed Colvin attempted that in the fourth season with good results (that as always, is spoiled by beaurocratic red tape).

Or he’s someone who learned something and tried to apply it to his life. Why are people so intimidated by someone else chasing better?

@@truegrit9202 because later he's shown incredibly naive / out of his depth dealing with actual politicians and how elite political economy works, they were stringing him along for so long that his street smart should have sensed he's being taken advantage of, his half-assed attempt to become a legitimate part of the upper echelon of Baltimore got himself killed.

@@truegrit9202here’s sadly this huge misconception amongst the wire fans that stringer was just some average gangster playing smart. And its quite sad how they completely missed the point of one of the most complex characters in tv history, the guy was a genuis but at the same time, he was also seeking knowledge and bettering himself and his business, while also trying to venture into the legal world and rise above the circumstances of his birth

@@vorrmax all while the crabs continuing to pull him down instead of trying to go with him.

@@vorrmaxHe was way too arrogant honestly most of the gangsters in this show were bright and he thought he was better than all of them

He did say the most frightening thing in america was a nigga with a book

*LIBRARY CARD

Brother also helped to put that man in a coffin.

Yea I always get confused with that part

A asoiaf and the wire fan holy shit

Shows today are an inferior product!

Zamolxes77 Ehhh the Greeks were a crime syndicate, they were just doing something they always did. Also criminal organizations snitching on each other is nothing new, having cred with Federals is a good thing to have.

+Zamolxes77 Thats something they always had though, they didn't create anything the way Stringer did.

@@MrKajithecat I think Bell was trying to do what you described but failed at it. If you remember his legitimate dealings with the contractors, Levy invited him into the legitimate world, knowing he wouldn't be accepted, ultimately fucking him over.

Before this scene I knew he was hiding an accent but when this but McNulty hid his way better

​@@DYLEMAHD True - he got schooled because he thought he is smart now after reading one book of economics; not implying that reading more books in that field would make you any smarter. ;)

in my humble opinion. maybe besides tony soprano

Ari Gold is up there too.

***** the ironic thing about omar little is that he was probably the manliest one of all the players

Stringer Bell, Omar Little, Tony Soprano, Walter White and Dexter. That's who I'd put.

MrRiddleAW Literally my list.

+tommybrown187 LOL

+flukes777 lmao

See that shit high...lol.

So good ahhaahahag

I heard of worldstar, nigga square up! lol jk 😂

But they do. They just didn’t know it. That’s true for many things when dealing with the underprivileged.

Actually, as much as I liked Stringer Bell. He was only slightly more intelligent than his environment. It's like saying that he was the smartest dude in a class for slow kids. Bell tried to make himself a "Black Kennedy". Trying to legitimize dirty money. His fatal flaw, was that he always kept 1 foot on the street corner hustle and 1 foot in the Corporate and Political arena. That's why it was so easy for him to get conned by Clay Davis. He never realized that the Corporate world is 10X more devious and ruthless, than any street corner. Those dudes in suits and ties are controlling banks, offices, senators, etc. A street corner kid is considered "big time", if he flips a Kilo here and there. When anyone is at the level of a Stringer Bell; NO ONE at the street level should have been able to have a face to face meeting with him. Not Bodie, not the other corner boys, and definitely NOT Omar Little. Remember when Avon to Bell, "Maybe you're not tough enough for this street game here. And maybe, just maybe not smart enough for them out there" (referring to the Corporate world) Its the same reason why Proposition Joe got clipped at the end. For all of the suits, ties, and quiet professional image that Joe put on. He was still TOO CLOSE to the street level hustle. If Bell would have kept the proper amount of distance between himself and the street game; then his lawyer would have seen through the Clay Davis scam, and would have put Bell in touch with the right people to flip all of that street money. Bell would have had a front man, to handle all of that Real Estate. That's how the true corporate mobsters handle their business. They never have their hand directly into the street hustle. There's so many degrees of separation between them and the street product; that a cop can't touch them. That's why Clay Davis walked out of that court room, unfazed. Even when Daniels and the minions thought that they were close; Davis was never in any long term trouble. As Denzel Washington's character said in the movie "TRAINING DAY", "It's not what you know. It's what you can Prove". There was never anything on paper to entrap Clay Davis. Some cops got close. But he walked away with his abilities intact.

He was way to smart for the game. Died like everyone else. Got caught up in the game with a bunch of shady ppl. Got got by his own partner.

rubbiebubbie Truu truu. It's kind of messed up to think of it tho considering that he himself tried to get his own man in too.

Well, he fed that false info to Omar to have Brother Mouzone killed. What he didn't count on is that Omar was smart enough to realize that Brother Mouzone was telling the truth when he had a round in his belly that he had nothing to do with Brandon being killed. He knew then that is was Stringer. Stringer then made the mistake of telling Avon that he had D'Angelo killed in prison. Avon then gave Omar Stringer's whereabouts and that was it. Basically he pissed off the 2 most vicious killers and the most powerful drug kingpin. Smart? I think not!

mindphreak4money great breakdown and an example of why the game isn;t for everybody, even the "smart ones". The real smart ones are damn near untouchable and only get caught when the feds have a major informant and other evidence that they can link to the top guy. Plus, there are guys in the right places who get paid off.

Then how come they're giving positive feedback and understanding it

That's because inner city school are pretty bad very few end up making it

That “deewit” sounded pretty Baltimore to me

Love the economics heads hitting that like button on this comment not even a single dislike

@@chiragpatel2423 You can see comment dislikes?

@@AE-yr6mo no. There is effectively no point in disliking a comment on youtube

@@M16xDr0pSh0tzChriag Patel implied there wasn't 'a single dislike'.

@@M16xDr0pSh0tz My brain just exploded as I read your comment LOL!!!

+DaleRobby rear You don't have to be rich to not be a fat fuck. Just eat right and exercise a bit, get rid of liquid calories. It's really not that difficult.

+DaleRobby rear LOL poor + fat is not working ((when you are really poor you will know how rich your now watching youtube and eating)) be great-full for what you have now and work for more if you want. but remember that your not poor and you dont want to be one.

+DaleRobby rear its not too late to do those things man

y bro it all starts with a thought ,then words,then an act,then habits ,reforming ur character witch becomes in a sense destiny, don't attack urself bro, any one tells me smthin hurtful but true I say a one syllable wrd,SO

+LiftedSeven u dont have to workout if u got money, money works out for u

@UCq_mh5PPqY5edYDjxJDGGoQ Wrong. Macroeconomics deals with the overall economy and how certain things affect it…Microeconomics deals with supply and demand, and how certain circumstances affect a particular business….I have an Accounting degree and had to take both Econs

@@tswagg504 lool that’s pretty much simple enough

@@NotSoRandom_ right lol

I'm watching the show again right now

That's a mixed bag. The idea is it's suppose to illustrate how he came from a rough background and was trying to improve himself. When you were never properly educated an A- is pretty good. Especially when you're running a drug business on the side.

His knowledge of economics isn't what got him killed at all. You're connecting imaginary dots

@@MB2.0 you misunderstand me. It’s his hubris and this scene is another example of it. Stringer thinks acing a community college intro course gives him insight and power. It’s actually part of the tragedy of his character, he’s so clever but he’s so vulnerable to connected white men that put him through the ringer. The college scenes are to emphasize that even through that route he’s still pretty much fucked.

Yup, without that youre just "Nigga Rich." Sure you got nice clothes but all your houses and cars are in someone elses name and that money cant go into a proper bank. Instead you gotta hide your shit in a mattress lmao.

@@Somnivore7 , Correct. If I were in The Game, Banker is where I would want to be, three or four levels above all the dirt.

Yea, not even close. haha.

They should have put people that wanted out of the game in that shop, people like Dee or Wallace could be useful running a front for their organization, then Stringer would have more actual soldiers on the streets and not be punked so hard by Omar.