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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The most important question addressed in this book is whether a capitalist economy can function properly without market-determined interest.
Edward Chancellor • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
“Money has been the oil that has kept the wheels of society turning and allowed the complexity of our present civilization to develop, but credit, the centralized creation of money, interest, and particularly compound interest, have seriously destabilized the relationship between money and the goods and services, or wealth, it originally represente
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Edward Chancellor’s book Capital Returns helped
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
When Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairperson (1996–99) Brooksley Born wanted to regulate the derivatives that would later be a major cause of disaster, the PBS program Frontline detailed how she was blocked in 1998 by the triumvirate of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and Deputy US Treasury Secr
... See moreEdward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
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