Book Reviews

The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It By James Turk and John Rubino Currency Books 2004 252 pages. $14.95 According to Greek legend,...

A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by: Murray N. Rothbard In what is sure to...

Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is a wonderful book, full of wonderful truths. It deserves to be read and considered. Paul’s persuasive arguments should dent the armor of even the most ardent Keynesians. Still, power and control – the twin motivators for inflation – are powerful opponents. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Make no mistake. This is a reference book. It’s the type of book that is probably required reading for graduate students at the Colorado School of Mines. In other words, this is not a book that one reads for entertainment. This is a book that one reads solely for the purpose of education. Which means only those closely associated with the mining industry would ever pick it up in the first place.

What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar By Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig von Mises Institute  2005 190 pages. Murray...

From there, he moves on to historical examples of money being replaced by currency. In each example, the outcome was the same – economic calamity. And as he points out, the parallels between his historical examples and America of the 21st century are much the same. Maloney traces the immediate problem to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Dismissing Zahb’s book is a big mistake. For it explains – in very simple terms – precisely what futures trading is and how to do it. Thus, if you’re an experienced investor, but have never ventured into futures trading and decide you want to, this is the book for you.

Like the alchemists, Theodore Butler holds that silver is important. He believes that silver is a profitable investment, especially in today’s economic climate. Silver Profits in the New Century is his treatise on how and why one should invest in silver.

Junior Mining Investor: 14 Natural Resource Experts Show You How to Invest Profitably in Emerging Gold, Silver, Platinum, Base Metals, and Uranium Mining...

Admittedly, The Silver Pennies has a narrow focus – the mines of the Coeur d’Alene Mining District. This means the book will appeal to a specific group of investors, those interested in American silver mines located in the Pacific Northwest. For those people, the book is a necessity. For others, The Silver Pennies furnishes a compact and succinct handbook on the subject of silver mining.