This book attempts to make economic policy understandable to freshman and sophomore undergraduates and to the general reader. The reader should come away with a working understanding of such important topics as trade deficits, money creation, budget deficits, inflation, origins of declining worker productivity, the workings of the Federal Reserve, and the causes of the savings and loan crisis. Contents: Faith in Free Markets; The Great Depression; Roosevelt; Post-War Economy; Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Actual Policy; Reagan; Consequences of the Reagan Revolution; The Productivity Problem.