The New Gold Rush has been written for US citizens and others who are concerned by the possibility that rapidly increasing Federal spending ( now 41% of US GDP) might bring down the US dollar and their savings with it. The Federal government has been spending massive amounts of US dollars on bank bailouts, the economic stimulus program, and the high cost of two ongoing wars. In addition to increased deficit spending by the government in Washington, the United States currently has large negative trade balance with other countries. An idea of the size of the trade deficit is given by the fact...

When It's Time to Buy Gold was written for US citizens and others who are alarmed by the debt ceiling showdown going in in Washington, DC and who are worried that this might bring down the US dollar and their savings with it. Not long ago the Federal government spent massive amounts of US dollars on bank bailouts and an economic stimulus program. In addition, two expensive wars continue to drain the national treasury. With the current economic crisis it now appears to some of our Congress people that more spending will be required, while others are more concerned with the size of the Federal...

This is the history of the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 when a woman was given to Cortes as a slave after his first battle with the local indigenous warriors. Malinalli of Tenepal, still in her teens, had been sold in to slavery by her mother after the chief of the city, her father, died. Malinalli should then have become chief with the passing of her father, but her mother wished to take up that role and got the local wandering merchants to take Malinalli away after which she was sold in the slave market in the Tabasco region near the lands of the Maya. She was then given to Cortes,...

This book is about the interaction between industrial technology and investment that produces economic depressions.