The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

by George Gilder
The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does

by George Gilder

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Overview

"Why do we think governments know how to create money? They don't. George Gilder shows that money is time, and time is real. He is our best guide to our most fundamental economic problem." —Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies

"Thirty-five years ago, George Gilder wrote Wealth and Poverty, the bible of the Reagan Revolution. With The Scandal of Money he may have written the road map to the next big boom." —Arthur B. Laffer, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States

"Gilder pushes us to think about the government monopoly on money and makes a strong case against it. If you believe in economic freedom, you should read this book." —Senator Jim DeMint, president of The Heritage Foundation


As famed economist and New York Times bestselling author George Gilder points out, “despite multi-billion dollar stimulus packages and near-zero interest rates, Wall Street recovers but the economy never does.”

In his groundbreaking new book, The Scandal of Money, Gilder unveils a radical new explanation for our economic woes. Gilder also exposes the corruption of the Federal Reserve, Washington power-brokers, and Wall Street’s “too-big-to-fail” megabanks, detailing how a small cabal of elites have manipulated currencies and crises to stifle economic growth and crush the middle class.

Gilder spares no one in his devastating attack on politicians’ economic policies. He claims that the Democrats will steer us to ruin – but points out that Republicans are also woefully misguided on how to salvage our economic future. With all major polls showing that voters rank the economy as one of the top three “most important problems” facing the nation, Gilder’s myth-busting, paradigm-shifting recipe for economic growth could not come at a more critical time.

In The Scandal of Money, the reader will learn:


  • Who is to blame for the economic crippling of America
  • How the new titans of Wall Street value volatility over profitability
  • Why China is winning and we are losing
  • Who the real 1% is and how they are crushing the middle class
  • The hidden dangers of a cashless society
  • What Republicans need to do to win the economic debate—and what the Democrats are doing to make things worse


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621575757
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 03/28/2016
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

George Gilder, one of America's leading economic and technological thinkers, is the author of many groundbreaking books, including Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money, and Life after Google. A founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his study of information theory, and an influential venture capitalist, he lives with his wife on his family farm in western Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Prologue Winning the Debate xi

Chapter 1 The Dream and the Dollar 1

Chapter 2 Justice before Growth 17

Chapter 3 Friedman and the Enigma of Money 29

Chapter 4 The Chinese Challenge 39

Chapter 5 The High Cost of Bad Money 53

Chapter 6 Money in Information Theory 61

Chapter 7 What Bitcoin Can Teach 69

Chapter 8 Where "Hayeks" Go Wrong 77

Chapter 9 The Piketty-Turner Thesis 87

Chapter 10 Hypertrophy of Finance 97

Chapter 11 Main Street Pushed Aside 113

Chapter 12 Wall Street Sells Its Soul 127

Chapter 13 A Wrinkle in Time 137

Chapter 14 Restoring Real Money 149

Acknowledgments 165

Key Terms for the Information Theory of Money 167

Notes 175

Index 195

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