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 Response to T. Anderson February 11, 2008
Ellen Brown
51 out of 53 found this review helpful
Yes, I caught errors myself, which is why I just spent the last 3 months doing an updated and revised version, available on Amazon now; and am working on another revision with a long postscript, hopefully available in a month. The banking system is collapsing very quickly, warranting frequent updates. Managing 500 pages with footnotes has been very difficult, and it has taken me 6 years already; but I had to go to press just because of the crush of events. I'm tired, but I keep going because it seems to me to be the most important issue confronting us today. If I've stirred the pot and gotten people thinking, it will have been worth the effort. On LaRouche, I'm neither a supporter nor a detractor; I'm just a researcher, reporting what I read that seems interesting and worth repeating, and his researchers have some of the most interesting material available on the subject, as you acknowledge. I'm not only a researcher but a writer, compelled to put things into my best prose. Much of my challenge has been to make this subject interesting and accessible to people who normally shy away from reading about economics and finance. If they keep turning the pages, I'm halfway there. Ellen Brown
 Proceed with caution . . . February 11, 2008
T. Anderson (Annapolis)
117 out of 158 found this review helpful
I bought this book because of the favorable reviews - all five-star ratings. What I found, however, was that the truth regarding the evils of discount banking was being mixed with the polemics of the LaRouche camp. Let me be clear, the LaRouche group does some of the best research in the world as has been conceded by the CIA, but their socialist views and conspiratorial rants are not always supportable. The author does include some competing political and economic views, but ends up discarding these views with anecdotes that fall short of sound analysis.
I would be persuaded to have assigned two stars were it not for the sloppy editing. Thomas Jefferson was not the second President of the United States. Cromwell's battle against Charles I was not the "Glorious Revolution," and Lincoln did not free any slaves. Perhaps I am making too much of a trivial thing, but when I see a pattern of errors that I can easily identify, I start to question how many errors are buried in the material that is new to me. To add insult to injury, there are spelling errors in some of the web links that make it difficult to audit some the author's references.
As mentioned above, the core theme - that discount banking is an evil of great magnitude - is spot on and there is a lot of information regarding the extent of that evil that is worthwhile. However, it is untenable to portray free trade as merely a tool of British Imperialism the fact that free trade, like banking, can be abused notwithstanding. Likewise, the advantages of commodity money are too readily discarded in order to support fiat money and crank Keynesian theories. How we can trust politicians with our money system any more than we can the bankers is not clear to me; it seems that we would be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. The author reaches out to former Presidents and Founding Fathers to support this concept but fails to present the whole truth. There is not room in this review to enumerate these defects, but I would caution any reader to proceed with caution, many a conclusion is based on half-truths and shallow analysis culminating in a call for bigger government with fewer controls.
Should be required reading February 8, 2008
clw (Ojai, CA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very readable, well documented and referenced, with interesting historical notes that provide a different view of world events than you may have learned in school. Economics should start with this book in high school or college. Unfortunately, if the material is accurate, as it appears to be, the chance that a "grass roots" movement can change things any time soon may be somewhat naive. But change begins with knowledge, and after reading this book, your "knowledge" of the system and the intent of those who run it will be at a much different level.
Monetary Reform Now! January 28, 2008
Evan R. Simpson (Kansas)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Complete chronological history of the subversion of the sovereign US economy and government through the craftiness of the international banking syndicate vis a vis the Federal Reserve Act.
Highly Recommended!
Fascinating and Infuriating January 20, 2008
David J. Bauer
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book provides more information about world politics and money than everything I've read thus far put together. I feel like Neo in "The Matrix", newly awakened from a slumber of ignorance and deceit.
If you think I'm overreacting, read the book and see for yourself- please!
Did you know that "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written as an allegory for the monetary system? The author uses this story to explain the history of the system, and you'll never view the story the same way again.
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