When someone asked Dr. Paulaha why anyone should read  THE BET ,  he said, " I think everyone should understand the consequences of one of history's biggest bets, which was the Western world 's decision to believe the market ideas cooked up by philosophers   250 years ago  were intended to  describe the real world.  They were not. They were fiction then. They are fiction now. And i t doesn't matter if you are a Republican, a Democrat, or an independent,  the economy is real and economics is not.  "The Federal Reserve does what it does, money is created the way money is created, interest rates are controlled in explainable and predictable ways, no one in Washington or anywhere else prints money and gives it to people to spend, smart trade deals saved Harley Davidson and the US auto industry  years ago, bad trade deals can hurt economic growth, trickle down economics shifts wealth from the middle class to the very rich, there is no evidence to ...