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Abe, Shinzo, 160–61, 260–61

Abenomics, 261, 264, 297

Abraham, 217

Adenauer, Konrad, 116

Afghanistan, 55

Aid, Matthew, 53

AIG, 77

Air-Sea Battle, 44, 63

Akerlof, George, 83, 84, 87

Albania, 136

Aldrich, Nelson, 199

allocated gold transactions, 275

Alpert, Dan, 245

Al Qaeda, 19, 27

alternative funds, 299–300

Ambinder, Marc, 63

American Airlines, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27–28, 35, 36

Ames, Paul, 143

ANZ Bank, 227

Arab Spring, 3

Argentina, 261, 290

ARPANET, 174

Articles of Agreement, IMF, 199, 212–14, 235

Asian financial crisis, 45, 120

Åslund, Anders, 142

asset swaps, 80–81

Associated Press, 59

asymmetric markets, 83–88

Atta, Mohamed, 24–25

Australia, 281

autonomous agents, 266

Azerbaijan, 233

Aziz, Shaukat, 31

Backus, David K., 74

backwardation, of gold futures contracts, 285

Bahrain, 58, 152

Baker, James, 177

Balko, Radley, 294

bank deposit risk, 218–19

bank failure risk, 218

Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 213, 276–78

banking risk, 11–12

Bank of England (BOE), 159–60, 161–62, 223, 230

Bank of Japan (BOJ), 160, 161–62

Bank of the United States, 199

barter, 254–55

Bear Stearns, 77, 103

Beijing Consensus, 118, 120–21

BELLs (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), 140–146

economic responses to 2008–9 crisis and subsequent recovery in, 142–46

euro peg/conversion in, 141, 144–45

Berlin Consensus, 121–27

cooperative labor-management relations pillar of, 123–24

efficient labor pillar of, 124–25

innovation and technology pillar of, 122

low-corporate-tax-rates pillar of, 122

low-inflation pillar of, 122–23

positive business climate pillar of, 125–26

Bernanke, Ben, 262

cheap-dollar policy of, 129, 157–59

deflation and, 76, 77

information’s role in efficient markets, analysis of, 84, 85–86, 87

London speech of, 158–59

Tokyo speech of, 129, 157–58

bin Laden, Osama, 19–20, 37

bitcoin, 254

Black Death, 115

Black Monday, 270

Blackstone Group, 51–52

Bloomberg, Michael, 294–95

Bloomberg News , 101, 145

Boeing Corporation, 58–59

Boesky, Ivan, 18

bond markets, 180

Bosnia, 136

Brazil, 139. See also BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)

gold-to-GDP ratio of, 281

IMF commitment of, 202

inflation in, 3

Bretton Woods system, 118, 208–9, 235, 290

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), 139–40, 146–50

foreign policy coordination by, 149–50

IMF voting reform requested by, 148

multilateral lending facility proposed by, 148–49

UN Security Council expansion sought by, 147–48

British Banking School, 168

BRITS, 177–83

Bronze Age collapse, 5

Brown, Gordon, 202, 274

Buffett, Warren, 32, 170–71

Bulgaria. See BELLs (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, 170

Burns, Arthur, 271

Bush, George H. W., 210

Bush, George W., 37, 210

C-20 (Committee of Twenty), 235–36

Canada, 202, 281

Cantillon, Richard, 7

capital flight, from China, 104–6

Carolingian Renaissance, 113

Carter, Jimmy, 85, 252, 295

Carter administration, 235

Carter bonds, 1, 253

cash, as investment, 300

central banks

Bank of England (BOE), 159–60, 161–62, 223, 230

Bank of Japan (BOJ), 160, 161–62

Bank of the United States, 199

central planning of, 69–72

European Central Bank (ECB), 117, 172

Federal Reserve (See Federal Reserve)

gold acquisition by, since 2010, 225–30

gold market manipulation by, 271–81

IMF as de facto, 199–207

purpose of, 199

Second Bank of the United States, 199

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

MARKINT and, 37–39

Project Prophesy and, 28–34

Rauf plot and, 36–37

“Challenge of Information Warfare, The” (Pufeng), 44

Charlemagne, 112, 113–14, 118

chartalism (state theory of money), 168–69

chartal money, 168

Chávez, Hugo, 40, 231

cheap-dollar policy of Federal Reserve. See easy-money policy of Federal Reserve

Cheney, Dick, 37

Chen Zhou, 43–44

Chiang Kai-shek, 91

China, 97–111, 139, 151, 152, 233. See also BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)

Beijing Consensus and, 120–21

capital flight from, 104–6

centralization, disintegration, and recentralization history of, 90–92

central planning, failure of, 69

collapse of, implications of, 297–98

Cultural Revolution in, 92

dollar investments of, 44

dynasties of, 90, 91–92

economic growth of, 93–96

elite/oligarch class in, 97–98, 101, 104–11

financial warfare capabilities of, 45–46, 51–53