The debt bomb is ticking, and only we can diffuse it.

America is in a crisis. Our accumulating debt-in the trillions-shows no end in sight, and our governmental leaders have done little to mitigate this threat.

Whether you are living on Wall Street or in a one-square-mile town, national economics can and does apply to our day-to-day lives. Former CPA and active CEO of Rubin Development Company, Les Rubin aptly outlines the basics of our economics, the history, and the benefits and pitfalls of proposed solutions. A concise but comprehensive handbook, Why You Should Give a Damn About Economics will give you the right tools to clip the right wire on the debt bomb before it's too late.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
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 BetaKappa 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 acartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Cybercrime Magazine, and multiple bestselling books including Howto 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 DogShow were exhibited at the Museum of the Dog in NYC.
To help businesspeople communicate visually, Lisa teaches thepopular workshop DrawingOut Your Genius™: Visual Thinking for Communication, Collaboration, CreativeThinking and Culture. She'sdelivered 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'sworked with the LPGA, LinkedIn, Chik-fil-A,the RSA Cybersecurity Conference, the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, theAssociation for Talent Development, and many more.
 
 
Previously, Lisa had a twenty-plus-years career as anaward-winning creative for international ad agencies on brands such as IBM andHanes. She is a proud member of the National Cartoonists' Society and holds adegree in Semiotics from Brown University. She divides her time between San Diego andher hometown of New York City.