title: The Death of Money: Currency Wars and the Money Bubble: How to   Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic   Collapse
author:  Edward Rickards 
description: Edward Rickards is the author of The Death of Money: Currency Wars and the Money Bubble: How to Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic Collapse Mr. Rickards graduated from Oxford University with a Master Degree. While studying, he travelled the world (on student exchanges and in his breaks), pushing his comfort zone and trying to learn new things. He has been a frequent speaker at conferences sponsored by bar associations and industry groups in the fields of the international monetary system and hedge funds and is active in the International Also he is a widely respected economic prognosticator. Mr.Rickards was a participant of the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award, formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate .. Also he love meeting new people and share his opinion with them.
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  A Bubble Burst
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A Bubble Burst: How a Stock Exchange Scare Dislocated the Life of the Empire
  For Two Days
  
  
  ### Fred M. White
  
  
  
  
  
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  The era of peace which seemed to be well-begun in 1906 was naturally marked by
  an extraordinary commercial and
  
  
  financial activity; an amount of world-wide speculations never equalled in
  intensity, even in the mad times of the South Sea
  
  
  Bubble, or when Hudson, the Railway King, flourished. The countless millions
  piled up in English banks earning a 2? per
  
  
  cent. interest were lavishly withdrawn, new mines had been started, everybody
  was going to be rich. On the face of it people
  
  
  had good grounds for their sanguine expectations. The Rand with its forty
  square miles of of rich gold-bearing reefs
  
  
  containing an untold number of immense fortunes - the ri