The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures , Revised and Updated

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The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures , Revised and Updated
by Richard Duncan
from Wiley

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Prophetic economic analysis
  Subsequent events have proven this book to be somewhat prophetic. Richard Duncan offers a very good, although somewhat dry, exposition of the international financial structures that emerged in the wake of the failure of the Bretton Woods system. The author is reasonably evenhanded in his assessment of these structures, noting that they made extremely rapid development possible, but at the great risk of economic crisis. In the wake of the subprime mortgage setbacks of 2007 and 2008, few well-informed people... more info

• Crisis explained, need personal solutions
  The book is excellent, providing charts and graphs to back up almost every statement. Excellent statement of the problem, and even what to do globally to fix. However, I wanted personal strategies I could apply to protect myself against loss, which are not covered in this book.
  You need to like numbers and charts to appreciate this book. It's a little slow in the middle, but if you just plow through it, by the end you have a very rewarding understanding of the problem.

• Consequences
  This is a great book. This is not light reading. But in regards to the review of this book, I guess it depends on the age of the reader. I am 100% sure no one under the age of 28 have ever read the book or would care to read it. But I am old enough to know that when I was born there were only 150 million Americans, gas was .25 cents per gallon and the coins in my pocket were 90% silver. My first job paid $1.53 per hour and I can remember going into a country store and telling Mr. Childers "I want .25 cents... more info

• The Dollar Crisis
  A very good and readable presentation of the global economy and how the profligate spending and massive debt accumulation of the United States will bring about severe ramifications not seen since the great depression.

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