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  <title><![CDATA[Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse]]></title>
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  <default-description>If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the small-government,  politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you'll love Tom Woods's &lt;i&gt;Meltdown&lt;/i&gt;. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work. Woods will reveal:&lt;P&gt;* Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout--and why nobody listened&lt;br&gt;* What really caused the collapse&lt;br&gt;* Why the Fed--not taxpayers--should have to answer for the current economic crisis&lt;br&gt;* Why bailouts are band-aids that will only provide temporary relief and ultimately make things worse&lt;br&gt;* What we should do instead, to put our economy on a healthy path to recovery&lt;/p&gt;With a foreword from Ron Paul, &lt;i&gt;Meltdown&lt;/i&gt; is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.</default-description>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those who want to understand the financial crisis and what to do about it.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to wrap your mind around the recession, financial crisis, housing bubble and taxpayer bailout of financial and insurance firms, you need to read &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100516.Meltdown_A_Free_Market_Look_at_Why_the_Stock_Market_Collapsed_the_Economy_Tanked_and_the_Government_Bailout_Will_Make_Things_Worse" title="Meltdown  A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr.">Meltdown  A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse</a>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76117889">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woods jest przeciwny rządowym interwencjom w sytuacji kryzysu. Uważa on, iż nie rozwiązują one rzeczywistego problemu, a jedynie zmniejszają objawy. Co więcej, interwencje mogą doprowadzić do przedłużenia obecnego kryzysu - jak miało to miejsce w przypadku Wielkiego Kryzysu oraz - ciągn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66635267">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 18 15:17:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmmmm, a tough book....tough on reality of what happened in the financial world precipitating this current economic mess.  Waaaaaay back in 1913, The Fed was created......but the book begins with current events and weaves historic government actions which have impacted economies all over the world ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55982957">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've read this summer. If you want to know what factors and institutions caused the economic recession of 2007-2009 (and probably beyond), and what you and I can do about it, you need to read this book.<br/><br/>It's short, about 160 pages, but instead of being a handicap it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64934357">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woods accurately provides an understanding of the current economic collapse from the Austrian School perspective, but his assertions are unconvincing to anyone with a rudimentary education in mainstream economic theory. For example, he implicitly ignores the velocity of money as a driver of changes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56892672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69564871">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am afraid the Austrian School of Economics is no more convincing than any other school of thought.  These guys have some kind of notion that 'THE MARKET' is something akin to God.  It isn't.  Like any other collection of human actors it is basically an committee writ large and you know what they s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69564871">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Austrian School of Economics is a strange sort of fundamentalist sect of the free-market religion.  Thomas Woods (who is listed as a &quot;fellow&quot; of the Mises Institute and wrote the Politically Incorrect Guide to History) does a nice job excoriating bad public policy for many of our recen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54803769">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having not fully understood the present state of economic affairs, I picked up Meltdown to get some insight that I could count on to stray from the popular media story. <br/><br/>This book was a great read for very basic ideas and many complicated concepts as they pertain to money, the government, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54295958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63477673">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book may be the best way to introduce Austrian economics to friends and family. Woods writes to a lay audience about a timely topic. Who doesn't make comments or think about the economy these days? Because of that fact, many people who would not have been open to the ideas in this book gladly r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63477673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55732850">
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read this book, you don't understand the current economic situation.  If you've been watching the news and wondering how more debt will solve a problem caused by too much debt, you are right to wonder and this book will explain clearly why.  This book addresses the root causes of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55732850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be the most important books for American's to read right now.  Woods demonstrates that it was the government via the Federal Reserve's easy money policy combined with other government interventions into the economy that led to the economic collapse--and NOT the failure of capitalism.  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55916615">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why did the real estate bubble form in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s? Why did it burst around the end of 2006? How did this weaken the economy in general? Why do booms and busts occur at all? How do we prevent or control these difficult processes? What changes can be made to produce a more st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58824021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No other book or author has so clearly explained the events that have unfolded since September 2008. Widely dismissed by &quot;mainstream&quot; Keynesian and Chicago school economists, this short tome contains a wealth of logic and common sense. One of the axioms of my life is that if &quot;most&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56554598">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do you still believe the propaganda you are spoon-fed by politicians and the media that the current economic crisis was brought about by unfettered capitalistic greed and wall street speculation?  If you want to know the truth behind what has happened to our economy, read this book.  Tom Woods expla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49273883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[10 MELTDOWN TRUTHS<br/><br/>The statist media charges that the reason for our economic meltdown was because of deregulation, a slap at those nasty Republicans. In truth, it was the wrong kind of regulation and intervention in the economy by various administrations (Democrat and Republican) that wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54004703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most important book I - or anyone else interested in how and why the current economic crisis came to be and the way out of it - will read this year.  Unfortunately, the current administration likely will not and will sow the seeds that will begin the gestation of a newer, bigger meltdown, in coming ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47253812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solving the problems of our current economic problems by accelerating the same faile prescribtions that fed the bubble in the first place has never made sense to me.  Heaping on top of that the moral hazards of the &quot;too big to fail mentality&quot; will ensure that problems will re-occur in even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47033961">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so-so for me for most of the time I was reading it. This is mostly because 1) I didn't really get anything new out of it since I've been an economics junkie for a couple of years and 2) the tone of the author kind of annoyed me.<br/><br/>But... the last chapter really inspired me. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49615466">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an oversimplified look at the financial crisies of modern times.  This was also written from a very right wing view and agenda.  Reading a book about how everything has been screwed up really didn't tell me anything new.  Nothing in here provided any more analysis or facts that I get from r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76757985">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[How Tom Woods wrote this in so short a time boggles the mind. Released only months after the crisis was realized, &quot;Meltdown&quot; is a timely and highly-readable introduction to the Austrian school of economics in the form of an analysis of the present financial crisis. A bit preachy at times, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74134341">more...</a>]]></body>
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