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The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin c. 1758 

Anyone who has tried to find financial advice has no doubt encountered an untold number of so-called "shortcuts" and get rich quick schemes. “Invest with me, buy my book or use my secret method, and you will be make easy money in no time.” Well, we all know that nothing with any real value, comes easy. Those who want solid advice to live by, would be well served to consult The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin. In a few paragraphs, Franklin wittily transmits the wisdom that made him a fortune and one of America’s greatest founding fathers. Beware: there are no secrets or short cuts, only common sense.
 
 

The Origins of Money by Carl Menger c. 1892

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals decide what the most marketable good is for use as a medium of exchange. “Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy,” Menger wrote, and so it is with deciding what is to be traded as money. "Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution. Sanction by the authority of the state is a notion alien to it." This is the first time this essay has been in print in more than a century! 

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LEAP: Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process by Robert Castiglione

THE KEY TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS: Set aside conventional wisdom and REVOLUTIONIZE your financial life with a whole new way of thinking. Using this book will smash the platitudes fed to you daily, by media based Financial Entertainers who are "owned" by the very same financial institutions that manufacture the products they are recommending you buy. You can ignore the steady stream of hype and opinion from all these self-proclaimed "experts" because you'll be equipped with the knowledge to grow and protect your money based on solid economic principles. You'll be empowered with the tools to multiply the effectiveness of your money and the wisdom to shelter it from the various eroding factors that exist, maximizing the potential of every dollar that flows through your hands, without risk. THE BEST BOOK ON FINANCE ever written.

The Pirates of Manhattan by Barry James Dyke

Go behind the scenes of modern finance and discover the people and organizations that ultimately control your financial life. Learn why you should invest in yourself and your loved ones first, and why the stock market and mutual fund industry pose a danger to your financial well-being, yet remain extremely profitable for Wall Street and its sidekicks, the banks and mutual fund companies of America. Together they form the Pirates of Manhattan! In this new, thoroughly researched work, author Barry James Dyke brings transparency to the American economic system and outlines long-established methods that most Americans can apply to their financial plans instead of the stock market or mutual funds.

Money For Life ! by Jeffrey Reeves

A great and easy read! Money for Life is whimsical, factual, funny, erudite and well written. The "how to" book for Americans who want total control of their money. The American Dream has been hijacked. Corporate and governmental Behemoths foist failed financial paradigms on Americans. That makes the Behemoths wealthy, but lures you into a dungeon of debt without any practical means of avoidance or escape. Based on proven principles and practices that have guided Americans to peace of mind about money for over two centuries, Money for Life reveals how to escape the dungeon and build a solid personal economy that can last a lifetime.  

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. Get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and the wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it's all true and it's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, the bubble economy, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again — or a banker. 

Bank on Yourself by Pamela Yellen 

Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don't want you to know. You'll discover how to:

• Have a rock-solid financial plan and a predictable retirement income that can last as long as you do – with no luck, skill, or guesswork required.
• Turn your back on the stomach-churning twists and turns of the stock and real estate markets.
• Get back every penny you pay for your cars, vacations, home repairs, business equipment, a college education, and other major purchases, so you can enjoy more of life's luxuries today without robbing your nest-egg! (The average family could increase their lifetime wealth by $500,000 to $1,000,000 or more using this method, without the risk or volatility of stocks and real estate).
• Become your own source of financing and recapture the interest you pay to banks and finance companies – reduce or eliminate the control those institutions have over you.

Can you imagine what it would be like to look forward to opening your account statements because they always have good news and never any ugly surprises?

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Free Banking by Larry J. Sechrest 

Free Banking: Theory, History and a Laissez-Faire Model by Larry Sechrest is a magnificent work, now rescued from undeserved obscurity with this new edition. Published in 1993, it is a formalization and extension of literature in the free banking area, with important correctives and clarifications. He argues that the debate over central banking and free banking is the most important economic issue of the day. Central banking accepts all the methodological precepts of socialist central planning. It is constructivist. The planners pretend to know more than they can know. They presume that their knowledge is better than the market. They use their power to override market signals of prices and interest. And the results are about as successful as socialism, and he proves this point with the first formal model of central vs. free banking, one that combines Hayek, Selgin, and Garrison to show that a competitive system would be self correcting where a centralized one is not. 

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt  with BONUS DOWNLOAD

Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied on some stories by Bastiat and his own impeccable capacity for logical thinking and crystal-clear prose. Written for the non-academic, it has served as the major antidote to fallacies in the popular press, and has appeared in dozens of languages and printings. It's still the quickest way to learn how to think like an economist. And this is why it has been used in the best classrooms for more than sixty years.  

Economics for Real People by Gene Callahan

The Austrian School is the most consistently free enterprise school of economic thought. This fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or statistical models. It's about human beings and the choices they make in the real world.This may be the most important book of its kind since Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. Though written for the beginner, it has been justly praised by scholars too.

The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard 

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed. Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.