“I'm a CPA, I read extensively, and I've only started taking Austrian economics seriously in the last year, and only in the last six months have I started taking historical interest in how money and banking developed in the US. I went back to history textbooks and found them begging the question when the topic of central banking and statism arose, so I searched for something with more substance and found much more than expected in this book. I'm no longer able to passively consider the passage of any legislation without wondering; who will most benefit and who will most be harmed by this banking "reform"? What moral hazards will be created by the latest attempt to reign in a problem created by the government granted banking monopolies? The sheer number of statistics, facts and detailed data left me needing to buy the book to make adequate notes. I highly recommend listening to this if you feel what you learned in school may not have been the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The detailed accounting of political, family and business relationships presented in this book is mind boggling. I was unaware of Rothbard a year ago, and only read him for the first time four months ago, I've subsequently listened to over 350 hors of lectures on economics in iTunesU, and read man economy and state, listened to human action and generally tried to absorb as much economic knowledge as possible. This work is masterful.”
Intrepidpariah via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/16/11