sevin
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I just heard about this book today and it sounds interesting. I'm impressed that senior level government and business leaders in China are reading it. Anyone here ever heard of or read this book?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Wars#cite_note-5
And there are two sequels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Wars#cite_note-5
Currency Wars by Song Hong bing, also known as The Currency War, is a bestselling book in China, reportedly selling over 200,000 copies and is reportedly being read by many senior level government and business leaders in China....The premise of this book is that Western countries are ultimately controlled by a group of private banks, which, according to the book, runs their central banks. This book uses the claim that the Federal Reserve is a private body to support its role. The book's author correctly predicted a banking crisis in the US in 2008. More than 1 million of this book were sold.... According to the book, the western countries in general and the US in particular are controlled by this clique of international bankers, who uses currency manipulation (hence the title) to gain wealth by first loaning money in USD to these developing nations and then shorting their currency. The Japanese Lost decade, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the Latin American financial crisis and others are attributed to this cause. It also claims that the Rothschild Family has the wealth of 5 trillion dollars whereas Bill Gates only has 40 billion dollars.
And there are two sequels.
Currency Wars 2 : World of Gold Privilege. In this book Mr Song predicted that by 2024, the world's single currency system will mature. He believes that if China can not be dominant in this system, it should not participate, but should be self-hill, have their own sphere of financial influence.[
Currency Wars 3 : Financial High Frontier. It discuss more specifically the modern Chinese History (from Chiang Kai-shek to the depreciation in the long term trend of U.S. dollar) seen from a Currency War perspective. It pushes towards an isolationist financial policy.