Book Reviews

  The Coming Economic Collapse:  How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel By Stephen Leeb Business Plus  2006 196 pages.  $16.99  Stephen Leeb, the author of...

Ruff’s Little Book of Big Fortunes in Gold and Silver:  A Middle Class License to Print Money By Howard Ruff 10 Finger Press 2006 122 pages.  $19.95 Ruff’s...

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,...

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.

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.

The Federal Reserve Bank – referred to simply as the Fed – has been the recipient of constant criticism ever since its inception in 1913. The Fed’s critics span the spectrum, from conspiracy/survivalist nuts to the AFL-CIO to congressmen and senators.

Buy Gold Now:  How a Real Estate Bust, Our Bulging National Debt and a Languishing Dollar Will Push Gold to Record Highs By Shayne McGuire John...

The title of Jonathan Spall’s book is Investing in Gold. And it’s a good book. But it should be noted that Investing in Gold speaks more to the subject of why you should invest in gold rather than how to invest in gold. As Spall indicates in his introduction, “This book is written for the broadest possible spectrum of those interested in precious metals, from private individuals to central banks, from mining companies to hedge funds.”

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.

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse By Thomas E. Woods...