I recommend this graphic novel to everyone:

Irwin Schiff (father of Peter Schiff) - How An Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009736/Ir...-Why-It-Doesnt


"A talent in too short supply today is the ability to take the complex and make it understandable to all. Listening to university professors and presidential advisors drone on about economics for generations has turned it into the dismal science most Americans tune out today, and we are all the poorer for it.

Schiff has taken a lifetime's experience and observation and distilled it into a comic book that can be read in an hour or so, but the lessons learned are immeasurable. It will teach you about investment, savings, capital and inflation, faster and with greater enjoyment than all the texbooks and position papers stretching from here to Jupiter and back. It will also arm you mentally for all future encounters with politicians or government spokesmen when they try to "explain" why America's economy is in such a bad way, and why we keep paying more and more for less and less.

Schiff has done a great public service in giving us a cheap and painless way to learn the basics of how an economy grows and why it doesn't. The pain will come in trying to reverse generations of misguided and uninformed economic policy."
http://www.amazon.com/review/RJZNCF9...cm_cr_rdp_perm