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Congratulations. I hope it is worthy to incorporate into each high schooler's education.
1) Does it incorporate the lessons from The Richest Man in Bablyon?
2) Does it address how to save? With the near zero interest rates paid by banks and the real inflation rate today, depositors find their purchasing power decreasing.
3) Does it touch on monetary history (fiat currency always returns to its intrinsic value of zero).
BTW, while retired, I still sock away some portion of the income to savings.
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Thank you 4v50!
1. Yes that is an excellent book and one of the first ones I read when I was younger that put me on the path to saving, although I don't cite the richest man in Babylon directly - there are definitely lessons from that book - such as controlling thy expenditures, making your wealth multiply (covered in last chapter Cashflow is King), the importance of guarding thy treasure from loss, etc.
2. The chapter on the hidden tax of inflation goes into how to guard against inflation stealing our economic energy, and into how the reported CPI has been in fact seriously under reported for decades now, to the benefit of both the government in reducing their cost of living adjustments to retirees and pensioners, and the central banksters in hiding their theft of our economic energy.
3. I do cover monetary history, going back 4700 years (but in a short synopsis so as to not put the reader asleep), as well as the difference between fiat currency and real money, the chemical properties of real money, and recent (past 10 years or so) moves by some of the largest central banks, sovereigns, hedge funds and private investor billionaires as it pertains to what they're doing to guard against the ongoing currency debasement (which many of them are complicit in causing...).
Best Regards,