Monday, March 09, 2009

A Little Light Reading

I'm reading a book I highly recommend. It's called Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse.

It's written by Thomas Woods, a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, which is a proponent of the Austrian School of Economics, which predicted our current crash and that of 1929...while all the "experts" were telling us everything was just fine.

These seem like the guys to listen to.

The book is an easy and interesting read, without the jargon, charts and other accoutrement that often accompany serious discussions of economics. You'll get a crash course in what's wrong, why it's wrong, what we should do, and what's going to happen because the idiots in charge are not going to do it.

It's a good resource when you find yourself arguing economics with morons...and when the residents of Clown Town start babbling about what they're doing to "fix" the economy.

You won't avoid the maelstrom that's coming, but at least it won't take you by surprise. Forewarned is forearmed.

The Gunslinger

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