Snap, got it the other day. Can't wait to find some time to run through it.
Skipping through it tells me it's more of a dive in to something your interested in and read. It doesn't seem to require you go through everything in order.
By Morris and Linda Tannehill
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Recommended by Doug Casey as he shares here. Apparently it’s the book that Milei read way back when and completely transformed his world view. Heard him mention it a few times so got my copy last week.
Reckon I can make my way through it this weekend if I don’t get tempted to be in build mode. It’s not a chunky one.
I just finished Lyn Alden's "Broken Money". Cannot recommend it highly enough. It's so well written, well researched, well layed out and well argued. She touches on so much relevant to the topic, including the threat of CBDCs and the importance of privacy. What came through on every page was just how at odds the incentives of central bankers with those of the people. We need to end the Fed.
Said it a bunch of times more but I'll say it again. 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. Not a weekend read, it's very long but it perfectly describes today's society written in the 50s.
Failing that I just read 'meditations' by Marcus Aurelius. Just a book of very good advice that applies well today as it did in the Roman Empire when it was written.
The book gives a fantastic journey through the history of money (I'm currently in the chapter about how John Law crashed the French economy by creating the first central bank). Goldstein isn't so much a Bitcoiner, and is somewhat critical of it and the gold standard at times. However, he gives fantastic analysis and historical context to money that I have scarcely (ha) seen elsewhere.
Been reading @gladstein's book "check your financial privilege". The chapter on Cuba made me smile. You don't know diamond hands until you read about those who NEED bitcoin to survive.
The Sovereign Individual. It's a classic but I never had the time to read it. It is interesting to see how violence is managed and institutions get replaced in a long and slow process over the centuries. I didn't finish it yet but so far so good.
I was looking through an interlinear translation of some Cicero that I found at a book store from the 1880's, but it's not really something one can easily pick up, sadly it's really actually very cool.
There was a book I read about a year ago now, called "The woman with two shadows," I think it was called. It was about the oppenheimer project, and the whole tennessee iron works thing. It was pretty good, actually. Such that when the Oppenheimer movie came out recently, I had zero interest in seeing it, because that book had treated the subject so well.
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