Introduction
by Robert Reich 1
Big Money
What's the Fed? How It Affects You 4
Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few 6
The Reality of Free Trade Deals 10
Putting a Lid on Tax Expenditures 12
Corporate Tax Desertion 14
Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't 16
The Investments of the 158 18
Why the Koch Machine Is a Threat to Democracy 20
Shams, Scams, and Film-Flams
Paul Ryan's Seven Terrible Ideas 24
"Right-to-Work" Is Wrong for Workers 26
Voter Suppression (And How it Works) 30
The Republican Tax Sham 32
Austerity 101: The Three Reasons Republican Deficit Hawks Are Wrong 34
The Real Reason Republicans Want to Pull the Plug on Obamacare 36
Hands off My Medicare! 38
The Cost of War 40
Climate and Inequality 42
The Facts About Immigration 44
Word of the Year: Xenophobia 46
Solutions
The Five Principles of Patriotism 50
Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour 52
Why Liberal States Won America's Tax Experiment 54
Why the Sharing Economy Is Harming Workers - And What Must Be Done 58
Four Steps to Solving Student Debt 60
What Is the Racial Wealth Gap? 62
The Women's Wealth Gap 64
End Mass Incarceration Now 68
Why a Tax on Wall Street Trades Is an Even Better Idea Than You Know 70
Why We'll Need a Universal Basic Income 72
Bernie Sanders's Seven Legacies 76
Trumponomics
Seven Signs of Tyranny 82
An Orgy of Unnecessary Cruelty 84
Trump's Bonkers Budget 86
Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State 88
Trump's Attack on the Freedom of the Press 90
Trump's Ten Steps for Turning Lies Into Half-Truths 92
Trumpcare 94
Trump's Infrastructure Scam 96
Trump's Big Bet On Coal 98
The Wall 100
Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts 102
Trump and Big Banks Want to Repeal Dodd-Frank 106
Four Reasons Why Trump's Plan to Strip the IRS Is Incredibly Dumb 108
The Four Dangerous Syndromes of Coping With Trump 110
Impeachment: A How-To Explainer 112
Four (And Maybe Five) Grounds to Impeach Trump 114
Glossary 116
Robert B. Reich 118