I second this recommendation. After reading this book, I suggest "What has government done to our money?" by Murray Rothbard to understand the monetary problems

I second this recommendation. After reading this book, I suggest "What has government done to our money?" by Murray Rothbard to understand the monetary problems in more depth. Edit: Here are free pdf's for these 2 books: 1) http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf 2) http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf