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Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goodsthat is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber...

Argues in favor of phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion, and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest rates.

While breaking into storage units to steal the possessions of the recently deported, Victor Li finds a rare and valuable gem that sends him across the U.S./Mexico border where he quickly realizes it is wrapped up in a much larger scheme involving shadowy international interests jockeying for power.

Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

With advice from her father, Honey saves her allowance to buy a playhouse in which she can get privacy from her five loud, bouncy siblings.

""Money clearly illustrates that sound money is an essential foundation for a free and prosperous society and that the Federal Reserve's current polices are a greater threat to the economic future of the U.S. than government deficit spending. This is an important book well worth reading." --John A. Allison, President and CEO, Cato Institute, and author of the New York Times bestselling The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure"--Provided by publisher....

"Focusing on the wealthy sybarites of New York City, whom Lapham has been able to observe firsthand in their natural habitat, Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who, in the thirty years since the book was originally written, have become only further removedboth in terms of wealth and social awarenessfrom everyone else"--