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Making a difficult topic easier to comprehend, Heads Up Money offers big ideas, simply explained, for teen readers. From the change in your pocket to online shopping, money is everywhere. Economics can't be ignored, and Heads Up Money explores the larger questions and concerns around it using clever graphics and engaging text. Heads Up Money helps young readers make sense of the global marketplace, financial risks and gains, and free trade. With easy-to-understand explanations of economic theory, this introduction to a difficult and sometimes confusing subject is written with young readers in mind, and it is structured around key questions like "What is economics'", "Who is making the money'", and "What is the wage gap'" In Heads Up Money, finances are explained with graphics and diagrams, covering theories and concepts from all areas of economics, including the market, supply and demand, industrialization and capitalism, multinationals, currencies, and more. Study what inflation is and what it means for an economy, figure out how stocks work, find out why we pay taxes, and learn why banks can't just print more money. Young readers will learn about money in ways that relate to their lives and personal finances with advice they can immediately put into practice, including saving money and learning how to save for the future. Heads Up Money answers the fundamental basic questions of money and economics in an approachable and visible way for teens.