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Gold vs Paper: A Cartoon History of Inflation
by Antony C. Sutton A humorous history of inflation told through political cartoons from every era along with textual analysis of inflation during each time period. A great gift for any school teacher or curious mind. Essentually, the book is about our money and economic "experts" who "solve" problems they do not understand in the first place, thereby creating more problems. |
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. |
Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse
by Michael Panzner From desperate interest rate cuts and chaos in global financial markets to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and a fast-crumbling tower of public and private debt, Wall Street insider Michael J. Panzner exposes the cracks in the dike, the looming economic threats, and the vast array of promises and obligations that will ultimately go unfulfilled. How did we get to this place, and how can we protect ourselves from the fallout? This revised and updated edition features a new introduction by the author on the predictions that have come to pass since the book was first published. |
The Great Depression of Debt: Survival Techniques for Every Investor
by Warren Brussee It shows how massive consumer debt will trigger the next depression, starting about the year 2007. Most of the logic used to support this premise is based on the government’s own published data. The exuberance resulting from the overheated stock market of the 90s caused consumers to stop saving and go into debt. Then, the dramatic drop in mortgage rates enabled people to refinance their homes and go even further into debt. People are no longer living on what they can afford; instead they are living the lifestyle they think they deserve, costs be damned! With interest rates increasing, savings rates near zero, and debt at its maximum; many people will be pushed over their debt limit, having homes foreclosed by the banks or going into bankruptcy. Others will heed the warnings and reduce spending, causing a dramatic slowing of the economy. Other problems related to the economy, such as balance of payments and deficits, are discussed. But it is consumer debt that will trigger the depression. |
The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience
by R.W. Jastram This was the first attempt to compile and publish long run statistics on the price of gold and inflation that spanned several centuries and then to use these data to examine in depth how the purchasing power of gold varied over that period. Jastram established that while gold’s purchasing power fluctuated, it did so around a broadly constant level. |
America's Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve
by Elgin Earl Groseclose Elgin Groseclose, an eminent monetary economist in the 20th-century, rips the roof off the Federal Reserve in this wonderful history that takes us from the Fed's founding to the 1960s. He shows that the gap between the promise and the reality is shockingly massive, so much so that the Federal Reserve must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of public policy. |
Mystery of Banking
by Murray N. Rothbard Rothbard's extraordinary book unravels the mystery of banking: what is legitimate enterprise and what is a government-backed shell game that can't last. His explanation is clear enough for anyone to follow and yet precise and rigorous enough to be the best, textbook for college classes on the topic. This is because its expositional clarity--in its hitosry and theory--is essentially unrivaled. Most notably, he uses the T account method of explaining the relationship between deposits and loans, showing the inherent instability of fractional reserve banking and how it sets the stage for centralization, inflation, and the boost-bust cycle. It is an explanation of money's origins and its meaning in the free market. The abstract theory is here but always with real application in history and in modern banking practice. Never does a paragraph go by without an example drawn from his massive knowledge of the subject. |
by Robert R., Jr. Prechter Just like Elliot Wave Principle, its super-bullish predecessor from 1978, this updated and abridged paperback version of At the Crest of the Tidal Wave presents a scenario that appears too dramatic and specific to be more than unfounded conjecture. However, the author's forecasting toll is again the only one that has proved its value in addressing future market probabilities. The result is social science at its best... |
by Robert R. Prechter Jr. This New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller first presents the economic facts that show why a massive deflation is not just inevitable, it's already under way. The second part of Conquer the Crash is practical - virtually each of the 21 chapter titles explains How To, What To and you Should. |
by Patricia Best and Andrew Sarlos North Americans are frenetic about stocks, convinced that the markets have nowhere to go but up. Each month, more and more novice investors pull their money out of their stagnant bank accounts and low-interest GIC’s and plough them into mutual funds and similar investments. In a compelling argument, Andrew Sarlos sounds an alarm against all this frenzied activity. |
by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin "History shows that people who save and invest grow and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse. As Financial Reckoning Day demonstrates, artificially low interest rates and rapid credit creation policies set by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve caused the bubble in U.S. stocks of the late '90s.Now, policies being pursued at the Fed are making the bubble worse. They are changing it from a stock market bubble to a consumption and housing bubble... |
Howard J. Ruff The devaluation of the American dollar, with the subsequent inflation, iseerily similar to the chaotic markets of the 1970s. The factors that createdthe stagflation and the gold and silver bull markets of the late seventiesand early eighties are back. As Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all overagain." Only this time, they're even more exaggerated-offeringonce-in-a-lifetime opportunities for middle-class Americans, if they lookbeyond the Wall Street stock-market propaganda. This book can help youpanic-proof your life and your finances, and reap huge profits withrelatively small investments in gold, silver, certain ETFs, mutual funds,and mining stocks.How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years in the 21st Century is amust-have survival and moneymaking guide for people who want to profit fromthe rough economic seas that are upon us-and come through with their shareof treasure. |
Richard Heinberg If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the US, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a punishing game of “Last One Standing.”... |
Antony C. Sutton "The War on Gold" covers monetary history quite well and the connection between the gold standard and price stability. It provides a check on deficit spending. The contents of this book ought to be heeded today in the face of looming multi-trillion dollar deficits for which both parties share the blame. |
by Paul Krugman Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression--and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics... |
Murray N. Rothbard Where did this thing called the Fed come from? Murray Rothbard has the answer here -- in phenomenal detail that will make your head spin. In one extended essay, one that reads like a detective story, he has put together the most comprehensive and fascinating account based on a century's accumulation of scholarship. |
by Ron Paul In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens... |
by Carmen M. Reinhart Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes--from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much--or how little--we have learned... |
by Peter Tertzakian Though written by an energy industry investment analyst and intended primarily for investors, this book makes a convincing, layreader-friendly case that the end of oil is nigh and it's time to get serious about energy alternatives now that the world is at "the dawn of a new energy age" that will pit the U.S. against China in the struggle for oil. Tertzakian provides an excellent primer on oil's history, uses, supply chains and politics, including dozens of charts and graphs to illustrate the bleak outlook for oil's future. The future of energy, Tertzakian advises, is an amalgamation of increasing dependence on alternative fuels (biofuel, nuclear and green sources) and conservation. He admits conservation is a tough sell for big earners who will be able to afford the $4 per gallon gasoline will inevitably cost, but he notes in the same breath... |
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