Preface

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, While God is marching on.

“Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Julia Ward Howe

Christ was crucified in the same city where, in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, God stopped Abraham from sacrificing his son, Isaac. Christianity holds that God allowed Jesus to be crucified as the grant of universal forgiveness to mankind. The stage for that act of sacrifice was set by Christ’s declaration that freedom would overpower both a brutal Roman dictatorship and the economic fraud of a high priest that violated many laws of his own faith. In death Christ made us holy, and, in resurrection, showed the path to freedom, forgiving even His murderers.

Today, technology allows precise calculation of the greater value of freedom over dictatorship and fraud. We are certainly not holy; by combining the ancient laws of Moses and mathematics with modern data (see Charts 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 and Chapter 9), however, this book shows:

  1. In the crisis of 2007–2009, a modern day worldwide money changers’ fraud caused investors to lose $67 trillion ($30 trillion in the United States alone).
  2. By 2013, the 2009–2012 recovery of free markets was rebuilding wealth at $34 trillion per year ($17 trillion in the United States).

With the United States as the guarantor of freedom following World War II, Germany has chosen almost 70 years of peace and prosperity over the powers of a king and a dictator that led it to pursue the two most widespread ...

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