By Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera "I.O.U.S.A" will accompany a new feature-length documentary based on the writings of Agora's "The Daily Reckoning". According to filmmaker Patrick Creadon, 'America's federal debt is $8.6 trillion and growing at a frightening rate. In addition, our major entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) are dangerously unfunded. As a country, we are slowly spending ourselves to death.' "I.O.U.S.A" also picks up where the best-selling "Empire of Debt" left off.
33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Guess what? The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states' rights—an idea reviled today—were even more important than the Constitution's checks and balances. The “Wild” West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn't involve an intern in a blue dress. Surprised? Don't be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and flat-out lies about the people and events that have shaped the nation, there's the history you know and then there's the truth.
A Century of War
By John Denson Get this from Ludwig von Mises Institure (www.mises.org) John Denson, in a book that covers the history of America's large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describes the twentieth century was the bloodiest in all history—not coincidentally a century of statism. More than 170 million people were killed by governments with 10 million having been killed in World War I and 50 million killed in World II. Of the 50 million killed in World War II, nearly 70 percent were innocent civilians, many as a result of the bombing of cities by Great Britain and America.
A History of Money and Banking in the United States
By Murray Rothbard In this volume, Murray Rothbard has given us a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War. Purchase from Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Ave., Auburn, AL 36832-4528. www.mises.org
A Nation of Sheep
By Andrew Napolitano In A NATION OF SHEEP, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms that are the foundation of American democracy. He challenges Americans to recognize that they are being led down a very dangerous path and that the cost of following without challenge is the loss of the basic freedoms that facilitate our pursuit of happiness and that define us as a nation.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
By Peter L. Bernstein With the stock market breaking records almost daily, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability. Along the way, he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.
Age of Inflation
By Hans F. Sennholz Age of Inflation is an enlightening and sobering analysis of the history and theory of inflation in the twentieth century. Written from the perspective of the Austrian School, the Book Recounts the German experience with inflation and price controls from World War I to the end of World War II. It deftly exposes the errors of the monetarists and their faith in political money, and examines the policies and consequences of the Federal Reserve System, offering recommendations for restoring a sound monetary system. Age of Inflation, which is also available in Spanish (Tiempos De Inflación, Buenos Aires, Argentina), is an invaluable aid to students of economics who seek to understand one of the great evils of our time.
As We Go Marching
By John T. Flynn John T. Flynn's classic work from 1944 on how wartime planning brought fascism to America. Flynn was a prominent journalist and rare case of an American public intellectual who resisted the onslaught of both the warfare and welfare states during the period in which FDR ruled America. This study links the domestic policy of the New Deal with the drive for war and wartime central planning. He draws attention to the bitter irony that America was becoming precisely what we were fighting. His analysis of fascism is incisive and devastating.
At the Crest of the Tidal Wave: A Forecast for the Great Bear Market
By Robert R. Prechter Jr. Read this one before "Conquer the Crash." If you are already well versed in the Wave Principle and prepared for the change that is coming, then ignore this book. If you are not, then devour it cover from cover. Be prepared for a shift in the tectonic plates that make up your mind's notions about financial causality. Above all, get ready for a violent shaking of your faith in conventional economic wisdom.
Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit.
Basic American Government
By Clarence B. Carson The tone of the book is set in these opening observations: It would be a considerable fraud to do a book on American government which talked as if the Constitution were still being substantially observed, that pretended that when Presidents took the oath of office they intended to observe the bounds set by Constitution, that Congressmen recited their pledges with the same intent, and that federal judges were still construing the Constitution as it was written. In sum, any book on American government ought to make clear how remote from the Constitution the government has become.
Basic Economics, Second Edition 1988
By Clarence B. Carson Intended as an introduction to economics for beginners, but it is full of insight for those who have already studied economics. It is written in plain English, minus all the charts and graphs which make academic economics so difficult to learn. As Conservative Book Club declared: "Enter Clarence Carson, unburdened by economic mumbo-jumbo and the jargon of high priced experts. Not only does he give you the free market basics in words your teen-ager can understand, but he weaves the basics into a tapestry of American and world history."
Between The Lines
By Walter Beller “Between the Lines” is not your usual World War II memoir. In describing the Allied bombardment of civilians, the building of defensive walls to keep out foreigners, and why Adolf Hitler was a popular leader in Germany, Walter Beller’s gripping account of growing up in the war zone between France and Germany during World War II speaks volumes about important issues of our day.
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
By Chalmers Johnson Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as “brilliant and iconoclastic” (Los Angeles Times) The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms.
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
By George Crile In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. The congressman became passionate about their cause. At a time when Ronald Reagan faced a total cutoff of funding for the Contra war, Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen.
Christianity and War
By Laurence M. Vance These thirteen essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, The Evils of War, Specific Wars, and The U.S. Global Empire, have one underlying theme: opposition to the warfare state that robs us of our money, our liberty, and in some cases our life. Although many of these essays reference contemporary events, the principles discussed in all of them are timeless: war, militarism, empire, interventionism, the warfare state, and the Christian attitude toward these things. It is the author s contention that Christian enthusiasm for the state, its wars, and its politicians is an affront to the Saviour, contrary to Scripture, and a demonstration of the profound ignorance many Christians have of history.
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
By Patrick J. Buchanan Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.
Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression
By Robert R. Prechter This book is essential reading. Robert Prechter explains why he thinks the boom times are behind us. Based on his interpretation of the Elliott Wave principle, Prechter believes that the U.S. economy is about to enter into a deflationary depression that few investors are prepared to deal with.
Crisis and Leviathan
By Robert Higgs This seminal treatise in the history of ideas demonstrates what has come to be known as the Higgs thesis: that government grows in periods of crisis, for example, war and depression. He demonstrates this with a detailed look at twentieth century economic history. Higgs's thesis is so compelling that it has become the dominant paradigm for understanding the so-called ratchet effect: government grows during crisis and then retrenches afterwards, but not to the same level as before.
Democracy: The God that Failed
By Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hoppe shows that the transition from monarchy to democracy has not been favorable to the protection of civil rights and restricting the growth of government. In fact, just the opposite happened. Contemporaneous with this change, we have seen a decline in morals and individual responsibility.
Den of Thieves
By James Stewart A number-one bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street -- Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine -- created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative -- a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
By Edward Chancellor In Devil Take the Hindmost, Chancellor takes an entertaining, albeit sobering, look at the history of speculative manias and the mass delusion that surrounds them. Beginning with the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in the 1630s, Chancellor chronicles the formations and irrational euphoria that can inflate markets, from shares of South Sea stock in England in the 1720s to real estate in Japan in the late 1980s.
Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
By Rose Wilder Lane This is a work that is so powerful it may well have launched the modern freedom movement. It must be read by anyone who is seriously interested in the heritage of liberty - not just in America, but the world over.
Eat the Rich
By P.J. O'Rourke O'Rourke skillfully takes us through several countries looking at Good Capitalism, Bad Socialism and everything in between. His insight and witty one liners make the read fast, fun and extremely enjoyable. While some may find it offensive, I found it hilarious. Anyone with an interest in economics, or those just looking for a laugh should hurry and pick up this book.
Economics for Real People
By Gene Callahan The fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or statistical models. It's about human beings and the choices they make in the real world.
Economics in One Lesson
By Henry Hazlitt Purchase from Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Ave., Auburn, AL 36832-4528. www.mises.org
Empire of Debt : The Rise of an Epic Financial CrisisBy William Bonner and Addison Wiggin Bonner and Wiggin enumerate a long list of chronic ailments that imperil the American financial system--a massive trade deficit, soaring personal and government debt, a housing bubble, runaway military expenditures.
Eva the Real Key Creating Wealth
By Al Ehrbar Economic Value Added (EVA) is the measure of a company's true profitability and a strategy for creating corporate and shareholder wealth. This inspirational book, interspersed with the success stories of EVA companies, explains why EVA works and how it can be increased.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
By Andrew Tobias and Charles Mackay This work shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.
F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
By Frank Partnoy FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders themselves didn't understand them.
Family Wealth Counseling: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
By E.G. "Jay" Link Jay Links book is a much needed - and unique - contribution to a tapestry of work that is essential for healthy financial and emotional balance in todays increasingly affluent society. With eighty percent of todays millionaires being first generation, it is of paramount importance that we learn how to pass our wealth on to our children and our local and global communities in ways that will enhance all of our lives. Jays book will ensure that you and your family learn how to accomplish this important task.
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
By Jim Powell In FDR’s Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly.
Financial Reckoning Day : Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century
By William Bonner and Addison Wiggin This is an extremely valuable book - the best financial book I've read in 40 years! This well-organized book presents insights into the current U.S. economy by comparing contemporary economic events with historical ones, especially such systems as Japan's in the 1990s and the United States in the 1930s.
Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb In this look at financial luck, hedge fund manager Taleb addresses the apparently irrational movement of money markets around the world. Using his own investing experience and examples of others' successes and disappointments, he discusses theories like Monte Carlo math and the concept of Russian roulette.
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
By Murray Rothbard For A New Liberty is Rothbard's introduction to libertarianism, his Libertarian Manifesto. It is Rothbard in top form--a libertarian classic that for more than two decades has been hailed as the best general work on libertarianism available.
For Good and Evil, Second Edition : The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
By Charles Adams Behind every significant event in history there is a tax story. Adams, a tax attorney, presents the history of taxation from ancient times to the present. He studies tax law and collection procedures in ancient Egypt, Rome, Israel, Asia, Europe, and the United States, describing how taxation played a pivotal role in such earth-shattering events as the fall of Rome, the signing of the Magna Carta, and the American Revolution.
Forced Into Glory
By Lerone Bennett, Jr. Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition.
Foundations of Economic Value Added
By James L. Grant An updated look at the role of economic profit analysis in the process of wealth creation Grant explains the pivotal role of economic value added (EVA) in the theory of finance, how to measure EVA with standard accounting adjustments, how to use EVA to value companies and their stock, and how to use economic profit principles to identify wealth-creating firms, industries, and even market economies.
Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model
By Larry Sechrest Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model by Larry Sechrest is a magnificent work, now rescued from undeserved obscurity with this new edition. Published in 1993, it is a formalization and extension of literature in the free banking area, with important correctives and clarifications. He argues that the debate over central banking and free banking is the most important economic issue of the day. Central banking accepts all the methodological precepts of socialist central planning. It is constructivist. The planners pretend to know more than they can know. They presume that their knowledge is better than the market. They use their power to override market signals of prices and interest. And the results are about as successful as socialism, and he proves this point with the first formal model of central vs. free banking, one that combines Hayek, Selgin, and Garrison to show that a competitive system would be self correcting where a centralized one is not.
Going Broke by Degree
By Richard Vedder The dramatic rise in university tuition costs is placing a greater financial burden on millions of college-bound Americans and their families. Yet only a fraction of the additional money colleges are collecting—twenty-one cents on the dollar—goes toward instruction. And, by many measures, colleges are doing a worse job of educating Americans. Why are we spending more—and getting less? In Going Broke by Degree, economist Richard Vedder examines the causes of the college tuition crisis. He warns that exorbitant tuition hikes are not sustainable, and explores ways to reverse this alarming trend.
HAMILTON'S CURSE
By Thomas L. DiLorenzo Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were without question two of the most important Founding Fathers. They were also the fiercest of rivals. Of these two political titans, it is Jefferson --the revered author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president--who is better remembered today. But in fact it is Hamilton's political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the very leviathan state that our forefathers fought against in the American Revolution.
How Capitalism Saved America
By Thomas Dilorenzo Extolling free markets and upbraiding government intervention, economist DiLorenzo offers a tour of American economic history that is intended to counter anticapitalist ideas.
How to Think Like Einstein
By Scott Thorpe In this totally accessible, ingenious book, you will learn the tricks and techniques used by Albert Einstein and other great minds to solve bewildering problems. From business and parenting to becoming more creative and improving relationships, How to Think Like Einstein provides the tools to discovering breakthrough solutions to everyday challenges.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
By Ludwig von Mises Why is Human Action so important? Why has it been revered and honored ever since it was first published? Why is it regarded both as an historic classic and a contemporary masterpiece, by virtually every friend of liberty who has read it? To answer these questions is to understand the special place in history of Ludwig von Mises, and the special place in the body of his works of this truly magnificent achievement.
Inside American Education
By Thomas Sowell The American educational system, from grade school to grad school, is bankrupt, teachers are incompetent and schools cause social maladjustment, moral confusion and alienation, according to this blistering indictment by Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Inventing Money : The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It
By Nicholas Dunbar Inventing Money is a fast moving and readable account that explains the development of finance over the centuries before recounting the brief but eventful life of LTCM.
Just Get Out of the Way : How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries
By Robert E. Anderson Economic growth is the only way out of poverty, and the private sector is best at generating that growth. This text recommends policymakers take into account the institutional weaknesses typical of developing countries and devise simpler, market-oriented policies for these countries. Highlights the fact that economic growth is essential to reducing poverty.
Life Insurance - Will it pay when I die?
By Thomas Young This book is intended to help you, the insurance buying public, move through the maze of protecting your family with the proper life insurance. Money is one of the most important things in life. In our society, we have to work to earn money to survive. Surveys show time and time again that most people hold wealth as one of the top three priorities in life. As people who must use money to survive, our finances are very precious to us. So, if this is true, why do so many people base the majority of their financial decisions on rumor, hearsay and opinion? You might believe you have been given sound financial advice. But in all likelihood, you have made the majority of your decisions based on advertisements, friends and family. Sometimes this works out well, but if the people you receive financial advice from are not fully informed about what they have invested in (which is often the case), you are almost completely blind as to what is happening with your money!
Lincoln Unmasked
By Thomas DiLorenzo Thomas J. DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln, is back... He reveals that most of what the average American knows about "Honest Abe" is simply false.
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
By William Bonner & Lila Rajiva Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner—a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public—is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. From the witch hunts of the early modern world to the war on terror, from the dot-com mania to the real estate bubble, people have always been caught up in frauds, conceits, and wild guesses—often with devastating results.
Monetary Policy in the United States
By Richard H. Timberlake In this extensive history of U.S. monetary policy, Richard H. Timberlake chronicles the intellectual, political, and economic developments that prompted the use of central banking institutions to regulate the monetary systems.
MONEY & WEALTH IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
By Norm Franz Money and Wealth in the New Millennium is an easy-to-read biblical expose' about the global economic problems of the last days and how God plans to deliver His people.
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity
By John Stossel In his latest book, "Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity," John Stossel expands on his popular "Myth" segments on "20/20" and unearths truths often distorted -- or disregarded -- by the media.
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We
By John Mueller Among possible U.S. terrorist targets listed by the Department of Homeland Security are a petting zoo in Alabama and a roadside water park in Florida. By listing such unlikely targets, the administration has heightened fear and the cost of protecting citizens, according to Mueller, a political science professor and national security consultant. He examines how terrorism hypervigilance is threatening civil liberties, the economy, and lives.
Parliament of Whores
By P.J. O'Rourke If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant.
Rich Dad's Prophecy
By Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad’s Prophecy, by Robert Kiyosaki, is about a coming stock market crash said to come about as a result of retiring Baby Boomers liquidating their retirement plans. According to Kiyosaki, the tremendous stock boom from 1982 to 2000 came as a direct result of the 76 million Baby Boomers flooding the stock market with investment capital. This process is a simple example of supply and demand -in this case extremely high demand for stocks. Much of this stock is held within pension, IRA and 401k type retirement plans.
Social Security : False Consciousness and Crisis
By John Attarian Despite two decades of warnings about Social Security's projected bankruptcy, nothing is being done. This critical history argues that a major cause of the impasse is the misleading manner in which Social Security was depicted to the public, and the beliefs about the program which prevail as a result.
Speaking of Liberty
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Speaking of Liberty is a collection of speeches delivered by Rockwell over a period of ten years. The book begins with economics, and explains why Austrian economics matters, how the Federal Reserve brings on the business cycle, why we need private property and free enterprise, the unrecognized glories of the capitalist economy, and why the gold standard is still the best monetary system. Other sections deal with war, Mises and his work, other important thinkers in the libertarian tradition, and the culture and morality of liberty.
Spiritual Economics: The Principles and Process of True Prosperity
By Eric Butterworth This straightforward, nontheological approach to prosperity has been effective for thousands. Learn to work with the flow of life and attract wealth in every area of your life.
STEALING FROM AMERICA – A History of Corruption From Jamestown to Reagan
By Nathan Miller From Publishers Weekly Miller (Spying in America) argues mischievously that the graft-taking politician, the fleecing business tycoon, and the crooked labor baron each "played a vital role in the development of modern American society." In this appalling, sometimes painfully amusing chronicle of greed, he spends little time judging the guilty, preferring to describe in colorful, lively prose how a gallery of rascals perpetrated grand larcency on the national and big-city levels and, for the most part, got away with it.
The Bastiat Collection
By Frederic Bastiat In two volumes, here is The Bastiat Collection, the main corpus of his writings in English in a restored and elegant translation that includes some of the most powerful defenses of free markets ever written. This restoration project has yielded a collection to treasure. After years of hard work and preparation, we can only report that it is an emotionally thrilling moment to finally offer to the general public.
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
By John C. Bogle There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John Bogle, who as founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual funds group has seen firsthand the innermost workings of the financial industry. A zealous advocate for the small investor for more than fifty years, Bogle has championed the restoration of integrity in industry practices. As an astute observer and commentator, he knows that a trustworthy business and financial complex is essential to America’s continuing leadership in the world and to social and economic progress at home.
The Case Against the Fed
By Murray Rothbard By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other. Purchase from Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Ave., Auburn, AL 36832-4528. www.mises.org
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
By G. Edward Griffin "It's not Federal. There is no reserve. And it is not a bank!" Get this from American Media, P.O. Box 4646, Westlake Village, CA 913-59-1646. Or call 800-595-6596. Ask for quantity discounts. Or, try www.realityzone.com.
The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
By Gene Healy The Bush years have given rise to fears of a resurgent Imperial Presidency. Those fears are justified, but the problem cannot be solved simply by bringing a new administration to power. In his provocative new book, The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy argues that the fault lies not in our leaders but in ourselves. When our scholars lionize presidents who break free from constitutional restraints, when our columnists and talking heads repeatedly call upon the “commander in chief ” to dream great dreams and seek the power to achieve them—when voters look to the president for salvation from all problems great and small—should we really be surprised that the presidency has burst its constitutional bonds and grown powerful enough to threaten American liberty?
The Demise of the Dollar... and Why It's Great For Your Investments
By Addison Wiggin Along with investment advice, Wiggin provides a brief history of government and consumer spending habits and how they have changed over the past 200 years. Written for lay readers, The Demise of the Dollar offers a practical analysis of what the "twilight of the Great Dollar Standard Era" may bring.
The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy
By Richard W. Rahn Richard Rahn is that rare, rare bird, an economist who can explain arcane matters in easy-to-understand language. Get the latest dope, in plain language, on the world banking and currency crisis, the techniques and importance of "foreign" bank accounts, and how modern technology may spell the ultimate demise to intrusive and totalitarian governments.
The Failure of the "New Economics"
By Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. The target here is John Maynard Keynes's General Theory, the book that appeared in 1936 and swept all before it.
The FairTax Book
By Neal Boortz and John Linder As Boortz and Linder reveal in this first book on the FairTax, this radical but eminently sensible plan would end the annual national nightmare of filing income tax returns, while at the same time enlarging the federal tax base by collecting sales tax from every retail consumer in the country.
The God of the Machine
By Isabel Paterson Paterson looks at the whole sweep of history, from ancient to contemporary, and relates it to the ideas and principles of freedom. Her central concern is to discover the political forms which freedom and civilization require.
The Illusion of Victory
By Thomas Fleming A best-selling historian takes a scathing new look at Woodrow Wilson's handing--and mishandling--of World War I, the war that spawned all the catastrophes of the twentieth century The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition.
The Incredible Bread Machine: A Study of Capitalism, Freedom, & the State
By R. W. Grant This book discusses some of the misconceptions about capitalism, such as the "robber barons" and the Great Depression and goes on to challenge prevailing assumptions about the need for government intervention in the private affairs and voluntary (market) relationships of peaceful people.
The Law
By Frederic Bastiat A great "giveaway" book. Buy them in quantity from Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 30 South Broadway, Irvington on Hudson, NY 10533. www.fee.org.
The Mainspring of Human Progress
By Henry Grady Weaver A great give-away book. Purchase from Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 30 South Broadway, Irvington on Hudson, NY 10533. www.fee.org
The March of Folly
By Barbara Tuchman Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. THE MARCH OF FOLLY brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader.
The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America
By Russ Alan Prince & Lewis Schiff Sandwiched between the rich and the middle class are 8.4 million American households with a net worth between $1 million and $10 million. Prince and Schiff present intriguing statistical nuggets from their survey of 586 middle-class millionaire households. Although these people may be rich by most definitions, many were raised middle class, earned rather than inherited their wealth and still retain middle-class values.
The Millionaire Next Door
By Thomas Stanley and William Danko In The Millionaire Next Door, Stanley and Danko summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy."
The Mystery of Banking
By Murray Rothbard Long out of print, The Mystery of Banking is perhaps the least appreciated work among Murray Rothbard's prodigious body of output. This is a shame because it is a model of how to apply sound economic theory, dispassionately and objectively, to the origins and development of real-world institutions and to assess their consequences. It is "institutional economics" at its best. In this book, the institution under scrutiny is central banking as historically embodied in the Federal Reserve System — the "Fed" for short — the central bank of the United States.
The Mystery of Capital
By Hernando de Soto In this book, the renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto proposes that capitalism fails in poor, postcommunist countries because they don't have the assets to make capitalism flourish.
The Myth of National Defense
By Hans-Hermann Hoppe With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe it represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "national defense" as provided by government is a myth not unlike the myth of socialism itself. It is more viably privatized and replaced by the market provision of security.
The Pearl Harbor Myth
By George Victor Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic-and his secret alliances to save the world from Hitler. It contains a wealth of fresh material on secret diplomacy; on secret military strategy, planning, and intelligence; and on disguised combat operations that began six months before the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Pension Idea
By Paul Poirot Not long after WWII, in 1950, Paul Poirot of the Foundation for Economic Education wrote a little book, THE PENSION IDEA, in which he demonstrated that the idea would never work. His prophecy is now apparent. The publication has been out of print for many years. I think it is so important for everyone to understand that Infinite Banking Concepts got permission from FEE to re-publish the booklet and we now offer it for sale on this website.
The Pirates of Manhattan
By Barry Dyke Go behind the scenes of modern finance and discover the people and organizations that ultimately control your financial life. Learn why you should invest in yourself and your loved ones first, and why the stock market and mutual fund industry pose a danger to your financial well-being, yet remain extremely profitable for Wall Street and its sidekicks, the banks and mutual fund companies of America. Together they form the Pirates of Manhattan! In this new, thoroughly researched work, author Barry James Dyke brings transparency to the American economic system and outlines why permanent life insurance should be a centerpiece of most Americans' financial plans instead of the stock market or mutual funds.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Claiming that most textbooks and popular history books were written by biased left-wing writers and scholars, historian Thomas Woods offers this guide as an alternative to "the stale and predictable platitudes of mainstream texts." Covering the colonial era through the Clinton administration, Woods seeks to debunk some persistent myths about American history.
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
By Bruce Wilkerson Even well-versed Biblical scholars might be perplexed if asked about Jabez, a little-known man listed in 1 Chronicles, chapter 4. Yet his simple petition is the cornerstone of The Prayer of Jabez and has become a call to live a more "blessed life" for countless readers.
The Proud Tower
By Barbara Tuchman The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaurès was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
By Rick Warren The spiritual premise in The Purpose-Driven Life is that there are no accidents---God planned everything and everyone. Therefore, every human has a divine purpose, according to God's master plan.
The Quotable Mises
By Mark Thornton The Quotable Mises is 300-plus pages of some of the most thrilling words on politics and economics ever written. In some ways, it is the perfect introduction to Mises's thought, something that immediately grabs one's attention and gives a fast and accessible presentation of the range of his ideas.
The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
By Thomas Dilorenzo If you really want to learn the origin of the mess that our country is in, this book is essential reading. A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems facing America in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincoln's creation. It sometimes takes a century of more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that and leaves the reader asking, 'Why didn't we know this before?'
The Retirement Myth
By Craig S. Karpel Written in 1995, the author brings you face-to-face with the absurdity of the idea of "Retirement." It won't work! Over ten years have passed and it should be more evident to all the truth of his message. His description of the problem is superior - but his solution to the problem is marginal, at best.
The Richest Man in Babylon
By George Clason This book holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. Millions of readers have become familiar with George S. Clason's famous "Babylonian parables" through the distribution of these success secrets of the ancients by banks, insurance companies, investment houses and employers. Acclaimed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning, these fascinating and informative stories have become a modern classic in their field. In language as simple as that of the Bible, this book presents a sure path to prosperity and happiness. It offers an understanding of—and a solution to—your personal financial problems which will guide you successfully through a lifetime. The Richest Man in Babylon is a book you will want to read yourself, recommend to friends, and give to young people just starting out in life.
The Road to Serfdom
By F. A. Hayek, and Milton Friedman A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.
The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life
By Jeff Olson Self-improvement; A great deal has been written on the subject, but does any anyone really know how to successfully implement a creative and manageable plan for its accomplishment? The concept involves goal setting, planning, time management as well as patience, faith, understanding and real desire. Too many times, people approach self improvement haphazardly, unfocused and unclear as to exactly what they want. This is not a paper specifically concerning goal-setting, that will be addressed another time in greater detail, but rather a blueprint for the implementation of the plan you generate during your own self-improvement goal setting exercise.
The Social Security Fraud
By Abraham Ellis Purchase from Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 30 South Broadway, Irvington on Hudson, NY 10533. www.fee.org
The Sorrows of Empire
By Chalmers Johnson n the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe’s "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant sheriff," next as the "indispensable nation," and now, in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." Here, Chalmers Johnson thoroughly explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire.
The Sovereign Individual
By James Davidson, and Lord Rees-Mogg The authors offer a sweeping analysis of the implications, especially financial, of the information age. The key result of this information revolution will be the advent of the "sovereign individual" and the death of mass democracy and the welfare state.
The Theory of Education in the United States
By Albert J. Nock There is no way such a lecture series could appear on a campus of this sort today. For in these lectures, Nock goes to the heart of the matter of what is wrong with the structure of education in the United States: the policy, imposed by government, of universal admissions on the theory that everyone is equally educable.
The Transfer Society: Economic Expenditures on Transfer Activity
By David Laband Leband and McClintock surmise in their research that there is much more to U.S. economic activity than the producing of goods and services, and that group and individuals spend an enormous amount trying to appropriate the wealth of others (and conversely preventing that appropriation).
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
By Charles R. Morris The sub-prime mortgage crisis is only the beginning: A more profound economic and political restructuring is on its way
The Trouble With Mutual Funds
By Richard Rutner This book examines what went wrong with the most popular investment concept in history and why today's massive outflow from funds could cause even greater disappointment. See www.troublewithmutualfunds.com.
The Ultimate Gift
By Jim Stovall The Ultimate Gift, written by Jim Stovall, is a story of Red Stevens, an accomplished man, who learned too late that giving material things is more like taking than giving. He learned too late for all except his nephew Jason. The Ultimate Gift takes the reader through Jason’s incredible work to gain his Uncle Red’s inheritance, “the ultimate gift.”
Theory and History
By Ludwig von Mises
Think and Grow Rich
By Napoleon Hill His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. THINK AND GROW RICH is the all time bestseller in the field.
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
By Ronald G. Ehrenberg Ronald G. Ehrenberg explores the causes of this tuition inflation, drawing on his many years as a teacher and researcher of the economics of higher education and as a senior administrator at Cornell University. Using incidents and examples from his own experience, he discusses a wide range of topics, including endowment policies, admissions and financial aid policies, the funding of research, tenure and the end of mandatory retirement, information technology, libraries and distance learning, student housing, and intercollegiate athletics.
Umasking The Sacred Lies
By Paul A. Cleveland In Unmasking the Sacred Lies, Dr. Cleveland clearly lays out the important foundational issues that policy makers sadly miss or deviously seek to mask. Then he examines several individual areas including education, the environment, welfare, and business policy revealing the sacred lies we have believed for far too long. The ideas in this book will more than likely challenge your view of what constitutes good policy.
Understanding the Modern Culture Wars
By Paul A. Cleveland Paul Cleveland has done a wonderful job of charting the course of Western culture over the millennia. In this penetrating analysis of the key epochs of Western Civilization. Cleveland has synthesized where others have dichotomized... an outstanding book.
What Goes Up : The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen
By Eric Weiner Traces the rise and fall of modern Wall Street from the perspectives of billionaires and back-room figures from both sides of the law who were direct contributors, in an oral history that cites the involvement of such individuals as David Rockefeller, Charles Schwab, and Peter Lynch.
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
By Murray Rothbard The Mises Institute is pleased to present this very beautiful hardbound edition of Rothbard's most famous monetary essay--the one that has influenced two generations of economists, investors, and business professionals. The Mises Institute has united this book with its natural complement: a detailed reform proposal for a 100 percent gold dollar. The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar was written a decade before the last vestiges of the gold standard were abolished. His unique plan for making the dollar sound again still holds up.
What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School
By Mark H. McCormack Fascinating notes from a street-smart executive. McCormack shows how to read people, create the right impression, take the leading edge, sell successfully, and more.
When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
By Charles Adams Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States.
Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
By Thomas E. Woods & Kevin R.C. Gutzman Our Constitution is dead, say Thomas E. Woods and Kevin R.C. Gutzman. And they prove it, with example after relentless example. The Left will appreciate some of their case studies -- such as the draft, free speech, and medical marijuana -- while the Right will cheer others: forced busing, the confiscation of Americans' gold, and the school prayer cases. But those who truly honor the Constitution will cheer it all.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
By Spencer Johnson and Kenneth H. Blanchard Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of "the cheese" and the role it plays in their lives.
WILSON’S WAR – How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II.
By Jim Powell The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.” But as historian Jim Powell demonstrates in this shocking reappraisal, Wilson actually made a horrible blunder by committing the United States to fight. Far from making the world safe for democracy, America’s entry into the war opened the door to murderous tyrants and Communist rulers. No other president has had a hand—however unintentional—in so much destruction. That’s why, Powell declares, “Wilson surely ranks as the worst president in American history.”
