Seven years of economic crisis. Seven years of reassuring rhetoric and slogans from politics, science, and business. It's high time for a new perspective on the upheavals that have pushed banks, stock markets, currencies, and societies to the brink since 2008. "What is a break-in at a bank compared to the founding of a bank?" shows that Bertolt Brecht's work offers such a perspective on the economic crisis. In six lessons, this compendium gathers literary, aphoristic, and journalistic texts by Brecht that, although created more than half a century ago, appear as analyses and commentaries on the economic turbulence of the present.