[Dewy]

Please!!!!! teach us little people basic economics.

We little people that voted for bush are still waiting for the job ship to come in. I know record profits are being reported and everyones portfolio is bursting.

But us little people are still taking the cute in our wages. I have worked the same job for the last 20 years, I am making 600.00 a month less this year over last.

Please tell me how through your basic economics 101, how to improve that?

[JasonC]

What job have you worked for 20 years, with your pay dropping $7000 in one year?

[logician2u]

Please!!!!! teach us little people basic economics.

I'm not qualified to teach economics, either to little people or to big people, but I will suggest two books that will bring you up to the 90th percentile relative to all public school graduates.

The first is a thin volume from the 1940s that is easy enough to read and understand, even DUmmies should have little problem (if they would only read it!): Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt.

The second is newer and thicker, but I am told by those who've read it (I haven't yet) very well-written and not at all technical: Basic Economics, by Thomas Sowell.

In neither of these books will you likely learn how to make more money, or how to get a promotion, or any other "how-tos." Economics doesn't teach that kind of stuff. You'll have to go to the investing or personal growth sections of the bookstore for that information.

Economics is more about what causes production, wealth, poverty and unemployment than how an individual can become rich.