I cannot impress upon you how necessary it is to read this book. You can get it much cheaper by going to the book's website. Why Amazon doesn't carry this book is beyond me. It is critical to understanding how we can fix this economy.Read everyone else's review. This book should be required reading in every single high school. It should be required reading for every member of House and the Senate. An exhaustive, fact-filled book with a 19-page selected bibliography. This book is backed up by references up the ying-yang.And for all those who think that the gold-standard is not fiat money, this author shows with 3,000 years of historical facts how gold is just another fiat money; the Ron Paul-ers who think they are advocating something reasonable need to read this ASAP. Because Ron Paul's solution is not a solution. Ron Paul needs to read this book.