Abstract
My business students are both uneasy and confused about the economic downturn in the United States economy and what is being done to change it. They have heard contradictory things from parents, the media, contemporaries and professors–and they don’t know which of these, if any, are accurate. Part of the problem is that in order to discuss the economy, people must talk about millions, billions and trillions of dollars, and our human brains tend to be poor at getting a perspective on such large numbers and distinguishing differences between them.
