This book should be required reading for any middle class American.Martin Larson takes us throught the creation of the banking cartel called the Federal Reserve System. Larson shows how the Fed manipuates interest rates and artificially creates depressions and resessions. He shows howthe printing of worthless fiat(paper)money destroys the credit, and true value of a nation.Larson goes through the arguements for and against fiat money and shows how a currency based on metals( gold, silver)is the only true constitutional money. With quotes and a chapter on Thomas Jefferson we see how the Third president was a prophet when it came to debt, inflation and banks. A great buy.