Bank Failure, Bank Runs, and Financial System Collapses

This book spends a lot of time talking about gold, but not because I'm a “gold bug” and I think you should take every dollar you have and put it into gold. I do not think that and I don’t recommend that. However, it is very useful to know what gold is, how it works, how to acquire it, and why people do acquire it. Some advice about gold: If you see

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markup that doesn’t make sense. So do not buy from anybody who advertises in the newspaper or anybody who advertises on TV. Do not buy gold from anybody that cold calls you on the telephone; do not do it. If you're going to buy gold, do it with your own research. There are legitimate dealers of gold. And the way you know they're legitimate is: (1)

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