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Summary: Great Book!!!! Mr.Ford you owe me a highlighter!
Review: Excellent read. Very clear and to the point. I could not stop highlighting all the solid and relevant information.
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Summary: after thoughts
Review: I purchased this book a couple of years ago, lent it out to someone I don't remember so I'm buying it again! It's an easy-read, yet very detailed in its implications and suppositions. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this book. Mr. Ford has an awesome amount of insight and unparalleled objectivity for such a subject as this. If you have a sincere desire in understanding how our society is as screwed up as it is, Mr. Ford has a couple of more than compelling reasons as to why. Definitely worth your time - enjoy!
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Summary: Simply Amazing!
Review: I purchased this book a couple of years ago, lent it out to someone I don't remember so I'm buying it again! It's an easy-read, yet very detailed in its implications and suppositions. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this book. Mr. Ford has an awesome amount of insight and unparalleled objectivity for such a subject as this. If you have a sincere desire in understanding how our society is as screwed up as it is, Mr. Ford has a couple of more than compelling reasons as to why. Definitely worth your time - enjoy!
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Summary: Blood, Money & Greed
Review: Of all books on the market of value to the average, honest American, this is the single most useful and informative modern work on the situation in which we all live. Not a word is wasted, and I can guarantee that you will never read the business section of your favorite paper in the same way.
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Summary: after thoughts
Review: The author started off with a respectable historical review of how the fed came about. It was eye opening and provided a lot of information which was not widely available. (For example, who were the shareholders of the fed).The later chapters got wackier and wackier. He started making claims that he either neglected to or were unable to substantiate and thereby greatly diminished his credibility. It was an entertaing and easy to read book. But I would classify if as part fact and part speculation.
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Summary: Every American must read this book.
Review: This book is a must read. It starts out kind of slow talking about how money was first used hundreds of years ago. But then it takes off and you can't put it down. Find out that the Federal Reserve is not federal at all and there is no reserve. All the info is backed up with documentation and can be proved. You won't believe what you read.
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Summary: excellent
Review: What an incredible revelation about the power structures of this world. Ultimately, God is in charge, but Cliff does a wonderful job in showing the progression of how the world is leaning toward a one world government (setting the stage for the anti-christ). First, there must be a one world economy. I'm saddened that many Christians can not see prophesy being revealed before their eyes. Just listen to the "State of the Union" address, and you will understand the double-talk that so many people accept regarding the financial status of this great country. 1999 will be an interesting year to watch. After reading this book, the events make so much more sense to me now.
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Summary: A good book but requires some extra reading
Review: When reading the book for the first time in 1999, it was a mind blower. It described the various steps taken by a money trust to take over the World, punctuating the evolution with episodes about the various financial crisis, the foundation of the Federal Reserve including the infamous Depression, the end of Bretton Woods, the 1973 oil crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Y2K bug which was a plan for Europe's old money to take over the World again. At the time it opened several mind barriers. But since (15 November 2001) I also discovered "Return of Depression Economics" from Paul Krugman explaining fundamentals in economy in an easy way, "False Dawn" from John Gray explaining the dangers of over borrowing which causes our present and probably temporary downturn, "Essays on the Great Depression" from Ben S. Bernanke explaining why the countries which abandoned the gold standard quickly (Britain 1931, Germany 1933) recovered much faster than those who did not (US 1934, Belgium 1935, France 1936). And those who did not use gold but silver did not suffer at all (China, Spain) because the metal was never in short supply. If the Federal Reserve had not been there, if the Bank of England had not showed the way to the solution in 1931 and if this solution did not become a global standard after 1971, we would all be in a bad shape today. The reason why the dollar fares better than the euro is not because economic fundamentals but because the Federal Reserve has more room to manoeuvre and avoid crisis (recent slowdown in employment proves it) than the European Central Bank influenced by Germany who was rightfully traumatised by its 1923 hyperinflation period. Gray explains how a depression or an hyperinflation leave a deep trauma to a generation that lived true one of those events. Unfortunately fighting inflation is only one side of the coin. Recession and depression also exist. Global finance is shaped by all those rules. September 11, 2001 showed why insurance companies and other financial institutions pool together to reduce risk. This is not a conspiracy, just the desire to diminish exposure. In 1929, central bankers were a new specie initiated by the Warburg before and after WW I to prevent problems (US, Russia, Germany, Japan, Bank of International Settlements) on the model of the banks found in France and Britain. Nobody ever had to cope with a global depression before and several states including the US did exactly what made it worse: raise interest rates, raise taxes, close their borders for foreign goods (see last chapter Krugman and also Bernanke). Since 2000 Fed reduced the rates, US government diminished taxes and lawmakers in industrial countries insist to keep borders open to avoid the unnecessary collapse of global trade. Rather trade adapts to demand. Last but not least "All Connected Now, Living in the First Global Civilisation" from Truett Anderson explaining how our system became global thanks to telecommunication (telegraph, telephone, telex, fax, internet). Circa 1850 people started to install electric communications lines and everything else followed the wire to become global (business, finance, politics, culture, religion, social movements, information, etc...). So a good book but reader must search for further reading to find the true meaning of the paradigm shift that occurred between 1850 and 2001.
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