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- Product code: 65941
- ISBN: 0470047666,
ISBN13: 9780470047668,
448 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons on 2007
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Description of Gold |
This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. "Au contraire," say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice Litle. In this explosive new book, Wiggin and Litle tackle the assertion that gold is but a "barbarous relic" head on. In so doing, they offer one of the most intelligent arguments currently available on why the bull market could take gold well beyond $2,000 an ounce four times today's price. Sweeping changes in technology, globalization, and the forces of "creative destruction" are tearing apart old business models, like GM and Ford. But, the authors assert, these vast changes won't stop with corporate America. Next in the crosshairs? - Western governments and the money you currently use to buy products you need to live. "Gold" is uniquely poised to restore confidence in the financial markets. Investors, consumers, retirees, politicians, and families would be wise to take heed.
"Gold" is not rooted in a desire to turn back the clock to the glory days of the fabled "goldbug"; rather, it presents a fresh and aggressive perspective on the evolving relationship between man and money. Unlike other books that rely heavily on abstractions and theory, this invaluable resource provides readers with an entertaining, easy to read strategy for building a fortress of impervious wealth.
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Contents of Gold |
Foreword by Addison Wiggin.
Preface.
Part I. Money in All its Forms.
Chapter 1. Good Money Is Stable Money: A Barter Economy vs. a Money Economy.
Chapter 2. Hard Money and Soft Money: Currency around the World--from the 7th Century BC to the 21st Century AD.
Chapter 3. Supply, Demand, and the Value of Currency: How the Circulation of Money Is Regulated by Central Banks.
Chapter 4. Inflation, Deflation, and Floating Currencies: And Their Effect on Prices, Wages, Taxes, and Debt.
Chapter 5. The Gold Standard: A Benchmark of the Value of Money that Creates a Free Market.
Chapter 6. Taxes: How They Diminish Productivity, Trade, the Stability of Money, and Overall Economic Health.
Part II. A History of US Money.
Chapter 7. Money in America: From Colonial Silver and Paper to the Turmoil of 1929.
Chapter 8. A History of Central Banking: From Ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve.
Chapter 9. The 1930s: Bad Capitalism and a Failure of Monetary and Fiscal Policy.
Chapter 10. The Bretton Woods Gold Standard: 30 Years of Hard Currency Destroyed by Taxes in the 1970s.
Chapter 11. Volcker and Reagan: Monetarism Fails, But the Tax Cuts Succeed: And the 1980s Boom.
Chapter 12. The Greenspan Years: The 1987 Stock Market Crash, a Recession, Deflation, and a Slow Economic Recovery.
Part III. Currency Crises Around the World.
Chapter 13. Japan's Two Great Periods of Economic Success: Based on a Gold Standard/Hard Currency and Low Taxes.
Chapter 14. The Asia Crisis of the Late 1990s: Worldwide Currency Turmoil and Economic Disaster Caused by a Mismanaged US Dollar.
Chapter 15. Devastating Currency Devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.
Chapter 16. A Return to Hard Currencies: Good Government Leads to Good Money.
Notes.
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About Nathan Lewis |
Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a leading economic forecasting firm. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Japan Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.
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