1 Introduction Painting by Numbers-Decoding the Discourse of Economics.2 American Dream Manufacturing Monetary Miasma.3 Bread and Circuses, or Poppies to Make You Sleep. 4 Children of the Revolution Reaganomics as Free Market Redux.5 Spirits in the Material World Alan Greenspan and the Newspeak Economy.6 Misery at the Funplex From Ideology to Imagology.7 Public Image Limited, or He Blindered Me with Silence.8 Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays The Crash of 1987.9 Vision Thing The Savings and Loan Debacle.10 Who You Fighting For Desert Storm and the Recession of 1990.11 Telling Stories Interrogating Irrational Exuberance.12 The Disappointed The Great Recession of 2008.13 Tired of Sleeping Trumped Up Trickle Down.14 Epilogue We Can't Make It Here-Moving Beyond the Free Market.br