How to Design Innovations and Solve Business and Personal Problems

ABOUT AUTHOR 1PREFACE 5
A GUIDE TO READING THIS BOOK 11

STORY #1
Skills Are Transferable from One Industry Another 15
STORY #2
How to Design Innovations 25
STORY #3
How "Medicare Advantage Plans" Was Created? 39 STORY #4
How to Solve External and Internal Problems 48 STORY #5
How to Calculate Interest Earned on Money? 56
STORY #6
How to Cure Headaches, Migraines,Peripheral Neuropathy, and Fibromyalgia 68
STORY #7
Nothing Happens by Accident. There Is Always a Reason for It 76
STORY #8
Look at the Messenger: Who Is He? Whose Interest Is He Pursuing? 97
STORY #9
Everyone Wants You to Be Stupid. Why?
So They Can Make Money from You 109
STORY #10
Comediante or Tragediante? Laugh or Cry? 127
STORY #11
How Did the USA Recover from the Great Depression of the 1930s? 132
STORY #12
When Capitalism Ran Amok and Brought the Capitalist Economy to
the Brink of Collapse, Socialism Was Called to the Rescue 137
STORY #13
What Is Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism? 146
STORY #14
3 Types of Economies: Market, Planning, and Mixed 159
STORY #15
There Is 3 Types of American Capitalism: Old, New, and Global. 176
STORY #16
"Look Through the Window." Or, Marie Antoinette and
President George W. Bush 183
STORY #17
President Barack Obama's 2 New Doctrines 197
STORY #18
Why Is the NSA Spying on All 316 Million Americans and the World? 219
STORY #19
Big Scams in the USA That Are Destroying
the American Middle Class, Seniors, and the Nation 227
STORY #20
Why Couldn't the USA Recover from the Financial Crisis of
September 2008? How Can the USA Recover from
Today's Financial Crisis? 252

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 265
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 267
THE AUTHOR'S, ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PhD,
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGINEERING, TO NATIONAL
WEALTH, AND TO WOMEN:
The Forces of Innovation...Conflict? 271
HAVE YOU READ? MORE BOOKS
BY ALLA P. GAKUBA, BSCE, MAS, PHD 277