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"""Too often, economic problems are explained in complicated technical language. The basics, though, are pretty simple. This book addresses one of the most important economic problems we face--in simple, straightforward language.""--Jim Miller, Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan ​​​​​​​ ""Les Rubin has authored this easy-to-read and plain English book on basic economic principles. He rightly notes his serious concern about our nation's mounting debt burdens and offers some of his ideas on what we need to do to keep our Ship of State from sinking.""--David M. Walker, Former US Comptroller General ""Businesses are drowning in mounds of paperwork, and America is being pulled down the whirlpool of debt. Our citizens and our elected officials have a responsibility to keep America strong--and that means learning how to avoid the looming fiscal cliff. Les's book guides us to how we can get back to prosperous times where faster growth and a balanced budget are possible."" --Connie Mack III, Former US Senator, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, and Chairman of the President's Advisory Panel for Federal Tax Reform under George W. Bush ""Why You Should Give a Damn about Economics provides easy-to-understand examples of how tax-and-spend policies have led us to economic instability. This book will equip our voting public with the tools needed to start prospering again!"" --Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Former Member of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, Creator of the Laffer Curve ""Economics affects our lives and our country's future. Yet few people understand economics at an intuitive level, often having been turned off to the 'dismal science' in schools that obscure powerful ideas for everyday living behind intimidating and complex math. Les Rubin explains economic and fiscal concepts in simple and engaging terms--and with the help of humorous illustrations. This book is a clear and accessible guide for anyone who wants to learn more about economics and why the US fiscal situation is even more dire than it seems."" --Romina Boccia, Director of Budget and Entitlements Policy at the Cato Institute and Author of The Debt Dispatch on Substack ""Rubin makes the crucial and oft overlooked case that our mounting federal debt is the fiscal equivalent of climate-change: a challenge that needs our immediate political attention, lest we impose staggering damages on future generations."" --Charles Wheelan, Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and Author of Naked Economics"

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"Leslie A. Rubin is a professional accountant, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and real estate developer. He has studied economics for over forty years and been heavily involved with economic education locally, working with schools, writing articles, and commissioning sculptures on economic themes for his real estate developments, which allowed him to gain a clear understanding of what makes economic systems work and the power of incentives. Rubin's passion for economics and economic education inspired him to create Main Street Economics, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit organization that provides the average person on ""main street"" the opportunity to learn about economic systems without going back to school. Les graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in accounting and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honorary societies. For ten years he was a practicing CPA/controller and has been the owner and president of his own commercial real estate development company, Rubin Development Corporation, for almost fifty years. Lisa Rothstein is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Cybercrime Magazine, and multiple bestselling books including How to Talk to Your Enemies: 101+ Ways to Turn Hostility into Peace; How to Survive Your Freshman Year (6th Edition); and One Coin, Two Coin, What Coin? Bitcoin! Her cartoons from the 2023 Westminster Dog Show were exhibited at the Museum of the Dog in NYC. To help businesspeople communicate visually, Lisa teaches the popular workshop Drawing Out Your Genius(TM) Visual Thinking for Communication, Collaboration, Creative Thinking and Culture. She's delivered her workshop to conferences such as Adobe 99U, the BackEnd of Innovation, Forbes Business Council, Innovation Leader, and to teams at Bayer, Merck, and Rheem. As a sketch-note artist, she's worked with the LPGA, LinkedIn, Chik-fil-A, the RSA Cybersecurity Conference, the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, the Association for Talent Development, and many more. Previously, Lisa had a twenty-plus-years career as an award-winning creative for international ad agencies on brands such as IBM and Hanes. She is a proud member of the National Cartoonists' Society and holds a degree in Semiotics from Brown University. She divides her time between San Diego and her hometown of New York City."

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