The ideas which are here expressed so labouriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

--John Maynard Keynes

Men live in two worlds.

One has substance and is real, like human beings found on planet Earth. The other is in the minds of living people.

Dead men don’t have ideas, do they?

Hence, whatever memory you have in your life, sweet or bitter, will not last forever.

In this book, I’m focused because I have no big ideas. There are no “About the Author,” “Preface” and “Foreword.” Rather, I’ll examine the ideas of economists very, very closely and show you something I believe no economist will enlighten you in his works: Where your money originates from and where will it go.

Since I don't teach economics, I can assure you that background of the subject is certainly not required to read this book. However, it will be great if you are logical in your reasoning, have strong common sense and, perhaps, a sense of humor.

And don’t forget the advice of John Maynard Keynes--the greatest economist in mankind’s history, who asks us not to let every corner of our minds be ramified by old ideas.

I have a reason for asking you to keep in mind Keynes’ advice when reading this book.

Soon, you will realize that the concepts developed by most, if not all, great economists, Keynes included, are actually erroneously corrupted.

All in all, this book has three parts and ten chapters.

Part II, which has four chapters that will show you all the things you need to know about MONEY, is used to debunk the established economic ideas, which are in the four chapters of Part I.

Part III has the remaining two chapters and it looks at what’s really go on in this world, including the fallacious ideas that high prices are bad, falling output is the cause of an economic downturn and the government is the right party to shelter its economy from stormy economic weather.

Hence, if for any reason you are unhappy with the contents of this book, I suspect you must be an economist, or maybe you are a politician.

Whoever you are or for whatever reason, I’m sorry. A money-back guarantee is not part of my promises.

I, however, do have a cash award of one million US dollars open to a group of “distinguished” people in Chapter 5: The Propositions.

Chen Z J
June 2009