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Reich, Robert B., author.

Economics in wonderland : a cartoon guide to a political world gone mad and mean / Robert B. Reich.

First Fantagraphics Books edition.

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2017]

117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Uses illustrations and infographics to explain such vital economic issues as the minimum wage, taxes, and healthcare, advocating against the policies of global austerity, right-wing populism, and "Trumponomics."

Economics.

Comic books, strips, etc -- United States.

United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-

United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.

United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.

Big money. What's the Fed? How it affects you ; Saving capitalism for the many, not the few ; The reality of free trade deals ; Putting a lid on tax expenditures ; Corporate tax desertion ; Power: who has it, who doesn't ; The investments of the 158 ; Why the Koch machine is a threat to democracy -- Shams, scams, and flim-flams. Paul Ryan's seven terrible ideas ; "Right to work" is wrong for workers ; Voter suppression (and how it works) ; The Republican tax sham ; Austerity 101: the three reasons Republican deficit hawks are wrong ; The real reason Republicans want to pull the plug on Obamacare ; Hands off my Medicare! ; the cost of war ; Climate and inequality ; The facts about immigration ; Word of the year: xenophobia -- Solutions. The five principles of patriotism ; Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ; Why liberal states won America's tax experiment ; Why the sharing economy is harming workers--and what must be done ; Four steps to solving student debt ; What is the racial wealth gap? ; The women's wealth gap ; End mass incarceration now ; Why a tax on Wall Street trades is an even better idea than you know ; Why we'll need a universal basic income ; Bernie Sanders's seven legacies -- Trumponomics. Seven signs of tyranny ; An orgy of unnecessary cruelty ; Trump's bonkers budget ; Tearing down the wall between church and state ; Trump's attack on the freedom of the press ; Trump's ten steps for turning lies into half-truths ; Trumpcare ; Trump's infrastructure scam ; Trump's big bet on coal ; The wall ; Trump's corporate tax cuts ; Trump and big banks want to repeal Dodd-Frank ; Four reasons why Trump's plan to strip the IRS is incredibly dumb ; The four dangerous syndromes of coping with Trump ; Impeachment: a how-to explainer ; Four (and maybe five) grounds to impeach Trump.

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