Economics.  It's about earning and spending money.  It's how businesses grow.  It's using resources to satisfy needs and wants.  It's taxes and interest rates and credit cards and savings accounts.  It's in everything from local production to global trade. The study of economics is as important for the "average person" as it is for the economist.  Why?  Because so much of it reaches into the very pocketbook of every single home around the globe. Besides the practical side that most of us face on a daily basis, there are philosophies of economics that shape our country, other countries, and our world.  As citizens (and therefore voters), we get to have a say in the future of our ... Read More