June 2014
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 10m
English
book
Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy – and What We Can Do About It
by Steve Forbes, Elizabeth Ames
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Notes
Preface: The Crisis of Modern Economics—and Money
x government spending, free trade, and sound money “The Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith Institute, accessed March 6, 2014, http://www.adamsmith.org/wealth-of-nations.
x tools such as spending, taxes, interest rates, and regulations Peter Drucker, “Schumpeter and Keynes,” Forbes, May 23, 1983.
x to achieve smooth, perpetual growth “Monetarism,” Investopedia, accessed March 6, 2014, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/monetarism.asp.
xi how are economists so confident that they can predict the future? George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is" (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2013), pp. 22, 270.
xi a ratio that held for more than 200years
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