Table of Contents

Foreword by Addison Wiggin. Preface.

Part I. Money in All its Forms.

Chapter 1. Good Money Is Stable Money: A Barter Economy vs. a Money Economy.

Chapter 2. Hard Money and Soft Money: Currency around the World--from the 7th Century BC to the 21st Century AD.

Chapter 3. Supply, Demand, and the Value of Currency: How the Circulation of Money Is Regulated by Central Banks.

Chapter 4. Inflation, Deflation, and Floating Currencies: And Their Effect on Prices, Wages, Taxes, and Debt.

Chapter 5. The Gold Standard: A Benchmark of the Value of Money that Creates a Free Market.

Chapter 6. Taxes: How They Diminish Productivity, Trade, the Stability of Money, and Overall Economic Health.

Part II. A History of US Money.

Chapter 7. Money in America: From Colonial Silver and Paper to the Turmoil of 1929.

Chapter 8. A History of Central Banking: From Ancient Egypt and Rome to the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve.

Chapter 9. The 1930s: Bad Capitalism and a Failure of Monetary and Fiscal Policy.

Chapter 10. The Bretton Woods Gold Standard: 30 Years of Hard Currency Destroyed by Taxes in the 1970s.

Chapter 11. Volcker and Reagan: Monetarism Fails, But the Tax Cuts Succeed: And the 1980s Boom.

Chapter 12. The Greenspan Years: The 1987 Stock Market Crash, a Recession, Deflation, and a Slow Economic Recovery.

Part III. Currency Crises Around the World.

Chapter 13. Japan's Two Great Periods of Economic Success: Based on a Gold Standard/Hard Currency and Low Taxes.

Chapter 14. The Asia Crisis of the Late 1990s: Worldwide Currency Turmoil and Economic Disaster Caused by a Mismanaged US Dollar.

Chapter 15. Devastating Currency Devaluations in Russian, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.

Chapter 16. A Return to Hard Currencies: Good Government Leads to Good Money.

Notes.

About the Author

Nathan Lewis was formerly the chief international economist of a leading economic forecasting firm. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Japan Times, Pravda, and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.