Recommended Books

This is now one of my favourite books! It was written by a documentary film producer and writer, so it’s an easy and engrossing read! This is the story of the creation of the Federal Reserve in the United States, the private banking cartel that is the source of much of that country’s financial problems.

This book goes much further into the story of compound interest (at the hands of private bankers) and how it has evolved over the past several hundred years into the monster that it is now. Learn how money is created and you’ll never think of any bank the same way again. This book is a “must read” if you want to understand what is going on in today’s world from an international perspective. That’s the because the same disease that’s become entrenched in the U.S. has infiltrated all the major western economies. We’re all in the same boat and there’s only one way out—a major financial revolution.

This book covers Western history from the medieval glory of Chartres to the modern day. Going far beyond the economic data, Fischer writes a powerful history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture, and society that they created as a result.

Records of prices are more abundant than any other quantifiable data, and span the entire range of history, from tables of medieval grain prices to the overabundance of modern statistics. Fischer studies this wealth of data, creating a narrative that encompasses all of Western culture. He describes four waves of price revolutions, each beginning in a period of equilibrium: the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and finally the Victorian Age. Each revolution is marked by continuing inflation, a widening gap between rich and poor, increasing instability, and finally a crisis at the crest of the wave that is characterized by demographic contraction, social and political upheaval, and economic collapse.

Fischer suggests that we are living now in the last stages of a price revolution that has been building since the turn of the century. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the world today.

Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss.

Turchin and Nefedov study societies in England, France, and Russia during the medieval and early modern periods, and look back at the Roman Republic and Empire. Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, the authors examine a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigate the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications.

An indispensable and groundbreaking resource for a wide variety of social scientists, Secular Cycles will interest practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.

This concise history of usury goes back to the time when Jesus threw the moneylenders from the Temple and traces the private bankers’ tentacles reaching far into the lives of all of us, through the many wars, revolutions, depressions, recessions, and other social upheavals that have been directly related. Goodson shows that both World Wars, the Napoleonic wars, the American Revolution, the rise and fall of Julius Caesar, the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and the revolution against Tsar Nicholas, all relate to this “Hidden Hand.” It’s the key to understanding the past, present and future.

Web of Debt unravels the banking deception and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading. Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the your country’s, you should read this book. [Peter: This is a super easy read and one of my favorite books!]

The main flaw in the current model is that private profiteers have acquired control of the credit spigots. They can cut off the flow, direct it to their cronies, and manipulate it for personal gain at the expense of the producing economy.

This book looks at the public bank alternative, and shows with examples from around the world and through history that it works admirably well, providing the key to sustained high performance for the economy and well-being for the people. [Peter: A must read for anyone wanting to understand how our money is manipulated by the banksters. Another of my favorites!]

Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can’t maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. This book exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago.