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Have you ever wondered where Michael Maloney gets the information he uses as resource material for his books, presentations and WealthCycles.com articles?
Interested in the different schools of economics? Want to know the best reference books on monetary history or the origins of the U.S. Federal Reserve? What does Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s approach to the Great Depression teach us about his flawed thought processes? What non-economic book does Mike recommend as simply a great read?
Mike reads a wide spectrum of materials, encompassing many different economic schools of thought and points of view, from Milton Friedman’s Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, to Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression to David Morgan’s Get the Skinny on Silver Investing.
Join WealthCycles.com for a video tour of Mike’s home library and a run-down of Mike’s picks and pans of books on monetary history, economic trends, precious metals and more.
The True Market Value Of Voluntary Exchange
Video - May 16th, 2012You’re in a group of 10 friends, who take a vote on whether or not you should beat up George to get him to pony up some dough for Oliver’s kids’ lessons. The vote is 6-4 to beat George up. Are you okay with it now?
Smart Money Says COMEX Can’t Back Its Gold Contracts
Video - May 9th, 2012Kyle to COMEX: “What if 4% of the people want delivery?” COMEX:” That never happens…” And if it does? “Price will solve everything.”
Compulsory Unemployment Laws
Video - May 2nd, 2012Minimum wage laws may mean employing low-skilled workers no longer pencils out for business owners. Companies may automate or move operations off-shore, resulting in job losses and higher unemployment.
Bernanke’s Mortgage Meltdown Miss Creates Credibility Gap
Video - April 25th, 2012CNBC interviews and Bernanke testimony dating from 2005 reveal either that Bernanke didn’t have a clue about the disaster that lay a few short months ahead, or someone frighteningly practiced at bureaucratic denial.
Party At the Fed
Video - April 18th, 2012Alone in his hotel room, Austrian-school economist F. A. Hayek pulls open the night-stand drawer to find, not a Gideon Bible, but a copy of Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Hidden Language in CISPA Interprets Desire for Privacy As Threat
Video - April 11th, 2012One of the greatest concerns about the proposed CISPA cyber-security law is language that goes beyond foreign or terrorist cyber-attacks and could outlaw whistle blowers or otherwise impinge upon First Amendment rights.
Using Jobs to Justify Destruction
Video - April 4th, 2012The window-breaker has stimulated the economy. Imagine how many more jobs would have been created if he or she had burned down the house and destroyed the town.
Anime-Style Video Offers “Bearish” Explanation of Quantitative Easing
Video - March 28th, 2012Film-maker uses computerized, monotone voices and anime-styled bears to explain the inexplicable: ‘The Ben Bernank’s’ rise to power and the Fed’s collusion with Goldman Sachs to rob American taxpayers.
Irish Protest Eurozone Bullying
Video - March 21st, 2012Unfortunately the Irish government’s proposal to restructure its debt is to trade in short-term bonds for 30- to 40-year paper, thus expanding the fiat currency supply while disguising the expansion of the central bank’s balance sheet.
Voice From the Past
Video - March 14th, 2012There is nothing subtle about the video’s message: Roosevelt’s New Deal ushered in our “master planned” modern society.
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Hi!
I've been following you for some time and I have to say that you explain economics very good, THANK YOU.
By the way, it would be awesome and very interesting if you can make some coments about this:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21242022
From Spain, thank you, Mr. Maloney.
Hello,
We briefly comment on this topic in the last paragraphs of our article at the following link.
http://wealthcycles.com/features/new-lesson-plan-teaches-constitutionali...
Earl
AFAICT you've cvoeerd all the bases with this answer!
"if you ever get a chance to read any Ben Bernanke....don't!"
I'm still laughing! Deciding on who to subscribe to, and right now Mike is leading the short list.
I'm glad to notice one of Jim Rogers's books on Mike's shelf. I've been following Rogers in the news since about 2003, since he was one of the only people the media covered who talked about investing in commodities. Rogers isn't a gold and silver bug per se, but he was the personality who got me thinking about precious metals in the first place.
It also turned out that Jim's house in New York was just a 5 minute walk from where I lived. When I emailed Jim about learning that he owned the house I walked by regularly, and how much I admired the house's landscape, he responded by inviting my wife and me over for tea. Regrettably, I never did manage to follow his invitation through to meet him and his family personally and see the inside of their house before they moved to Singapore in 2007. But I still remember how approachable he was, and I still follow him in the news. Jim Rogers's books are entertaining, informative, and instructive to read.
Has Mike read Ron Paul's End the Fed, and would he recommend it or not?
Michael has read it and he does recommend it.
Excellent video!
Thank you. We'll keep them coming.
Very good selection. I thought you might have mentioned "The Creature From Jeckyl Island" also. That was also very informative and explained wh we are where we are today.
Thanks for the insight
Mike has read that book and had it at the office. It does provide a good perspective.
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