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The Mountain Vision Update - In view of the speed at which events take place in the world of international investing, a key element of financial services is timely and relevant information. Mountain Vision Publications, comprised of our Weekly Updates and periodic Newsletters and Special Reports, provide a mix of hard facts, contradictory opinion, unbiased analysis and a bit of fun - all from our Swiss prospective.

The McAlvany Weekly Commentary - McAlvany Weekly Commentary will provide investors with valuable monetary, economic, geo-political and financial information that cannot be found on Wall Street. With economic expert and host David McAlvany, you will be given a solid strategy of wealth preservation for your financial and retirement assets while living in an unstable economy.

The Daily Bell - The Daily Bell, published by Appenzeller Business Press AG, is an Internet-based publication developed by committed free-market thinkers who have been sharing their vision with the world in some cases since the late 1980s. This modest Bell brain-trust has covered Austrian economic issues and libertarian movements for an aggregate of about 100-years. Readers may quickly perceive that the Daily Bell editorial thrust leans toward free-banking and the availability of a private silver-and-gold standard as a preferred money marketplace.

The Wegelin Investment Commentary - The Investment Commentary offers an insight into the independent intellectual approach of Wegelin & Co. Private Bankers. Its substantial following is due to the sometimes controversial, but always though-provoking treatment of its subject matter, and its discerning integration of overarching and complex issues. Beyond this, it radiates the author's pleasure in writing and enjoyment of language, which guarantees absorbing reading.

Books

The Birth of the Euro
by Otmar Issing

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
by Harold James

The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression
by Harold James

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
by Harold James

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
by Naomi Wolf

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi Wolf

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Hunter Lewis

Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts
by Hunter Lewis

The Monetary Sin of the West
by Jacques Rueff
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse

by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (2009)

The Dow Theory (Fraser Publishing Library)
by Robert Rhea (2008)

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman (2008)

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson (2008)
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by Ron Paul (2008)

The Law
by Frederic Bastiat (1850)

The Coming Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It
by James Turk (2004)

Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt (2000)

The War on Gold
by Antony Sutton (1977)

The Mainspring of Human Progress
by Henry Grady Weaver (1997)

Fiat Money Inflation in France: How a first world nation destroyed its economy and led to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
by Andrew Dickson White (2007)

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents-The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
by F.A. Hayek (1944)

The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures , Revised and Updated
by Richard Duncan (2005)

The History of Freedom in Antiquity and The History of Freedom in Christianity
by Lord Acton (1906)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay (1995)

Your Money and Your Brain
by Jason Zweig (2007)

Wealth, War and Wisdom
by Barton Biggs (2008)

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley (1932)

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
by Russell Napier (2005)

The Great Reckoning, How The World Will Change Before The Year 2000
by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg

The Fourth Turning - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny
by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Secrets Of The Temple - How The Federal Reserve Runs The Country
by William Greider
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