Holy Air Ballz!

3. One person says “jump,” and everyone else says “how high, please don’t arrest me.”
5. When your money decides to be worth less just for fun.
7. The price of borrowing money — or the reason your credit card balance hates you.
9. When the government spends like a teenager with a credit card.
11. When the economy takes a nap and everyone panics.
13. A government run by a handful of rich people who call it “advising.”
14. Like a democracy, but with extra steps and fancier vocabulary.
16. A system where the people have the power… until Election Day ends.
18. When the economy doesn’t wake up from that nap.

1. Where everything has a price, even your time and sanity.
2. Sharing is caring, but people still argue about who’s sharing too much.
4. When the government gives a company money and calls it “helping the economy.”
6. What happens when everyone says “no rules!” and then realizes rules were kind of useful.
8. The art of convincing people that your side is totally right — and totally cool.
10. A tax on imported stuff, aka “international drama with receipts.”
12. The big, complicated machine that decides why you can’t afford what you want.
15. Everyone’s equal, especially the people in charge.
17. Government run by a royal family that basically won the world’s longest inheritance game