Contents

• Introduction — The Chart and the Receipt

Part I — The Economy We Describe

• Chapter 1 — What the Average Leaves Out
• Chapter 2 — When a Forecast Becomes a Promise
• Chapter 3 — The Economy at the Kitchen Table

Part II — What Travels

• Chapter 4 — Why Pain Moves Faster
• Chapter 5 — The People Who Sound Like They See Us

Part III — Leadership in a Compressed World

• Chapter 6 — Leadership in a One-Sentence World
• Chapter 7 — What Elections Can Reject

Part IV — What Holds

• Chapter 8 — The Guardrails We Notice Only When They Fail

• Conclusion — Two Truths in One Sentence

• Appendix — Why “Just Tell the Truth” Is Not a Strategy

• About the Series

• Bibliography