Hi Steven here, and thanks for reading my article. If you’re looking for a review of Mike Maloney’s best-selling book, ‘A Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver’, you’ve come to the right place.

The book is part of Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad” series of books providing advice on financial management and wealth building, and was published in 2008. It is the best-selling book on precious metals investing ever published. The author is the CEO and founder of GoldSilver.com.

Divided into 4 sections, the book respectively focuses on the history of money, the current situation of the monetary system, how the situation is likely to play out, and the different ways people can obtain gold and silver, including the traps they must be avoided.

The book begins with the monetary systems of the ancient world, and the reader will soon realize that the saying “there is nothing new under the sun” applies to the history of money like everything else. The reader is guided through the debasement of coins in ancient Rome and its origins in the spending of promises by the political class to gain popularity, but which they could never fulfill.

The original gold and silver coins were made smaller, debased by mixing them with lower value metals, and recast with higher values ​​stamped on them. This served to increase the money supply but had the effect of making each unit of money less valuable. More recently, the book describes the period of the classical gold standard from the 19th century until World War I, the light Bretton Woods gold standard system after World War II, and the end of the convertibility of the US dollar into gold by the President Nixon on August 15, 1971.

Regarding the current situation, Mike argues that the value of most financial assets has been falling since 1999/2000, which was both the low point of the gold market and the high point of the stock market. This was when paper assets were most coveted, and real silver and gold money most overlooked. While the price of paper assets may have risen in nominal terms, their decline in value has actually been masked by inflation.

The book discusses growing government deficits and liabilities, and how these are financed by increasing the money supply. Mike argues that the market cycle is moving away from paper assets and in favor of historical gold and silver money.

The fourth section contains a complete overview of ways to buy precious metals, including pitfalls to avoid.

The book was easy to read and informative and I would recommend it both specifically as a guide to precious metals and more generally to improve people’s financial literacy.

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