If you were looking for an introductory textbook written in simple English and easy to follow charts, graphs, and math, then this is it. This book will help you find answers to questions that you were anxious to ask but were afraid to. Using examples and news from everyday life, the book will make you realize that how much economics you already know and live by. The television news, print and social media will make better sense and you will become a much more informed citizen. As a student of "Economics 101" you won't need to buy and digest a textbook of 500 plus pages that will cost you arm and a leg and still find it hard to follow the laws and theories of economics. For an instructor this is a readymade manual based on author's years and years of teaching experience. AUTHOR The author is a retired professor of economics who has taught economics, business, and education courses from junior college to graduate levels for more than four decades in three continents. He holds six degrees in these areas including two graduate degrees from Indiana University and a doctorate from the University of Connecticut. He has taught at Alabama State University, Eastern and Southern Connecticut State Universities, United States International University in Kenya, University of the Punjab in Pakistan, Albertus Magnus College, and (for two decades) Manchester Community College in Connecticut. He received the Educational Excellence and Distinguished Service Award from the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State Community Colleges in 1994 and was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale University, Connecticut for the year 1993 - 1994