Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver was my first book to be published, but it was not the first book that I wrote.  My first book, Understanding Money, was never completed.  That project proved to be far too ambitious.  It was a massive undertaking to be written as a trilogy.  At the time I had no idea how hard researching and writing could be.  The first volume alone would have been 50 chapters, around 2,000 pages, and taken four or five years to complete, and the next two volumes probably would have taken the balance of a decade.  Because of its intimidating size and overwhelming amount of information, had it been published, it would have probably only sold a few copies.  Luckily, Robert Kiyosaki insisted that I abandon it and write “Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver” instead.  I had already finished around 600 pages, so I salvaged what I could by cutting 12-chapters, editing the rest down to around 200-pages

When I wrote this, back in 2006, there was very little information available on Chinese monetary history. With the lack of information and alternate sources unavailable I couldn’t double and triple check my writing for accuracy, so I decided to cut the chapter myself rather than risk putting questionable work into my book. Since then…

Here is another chapter that was cut from my book, Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver.  I don’t think the editors thought the chapter was necessary and I don’t think they liked the abrupt way that it ends. I thought it was funny. Enjoy, Mike     Good Knight Mr. Goldsmith The forerunner of…

This chapter did make it into my book, but the editors watered it down by removing a few paragraphs and all of the colorful quotes from the wonderful little book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written by Charles Mackay in 1841.  I have now restored it to its original state.  All quotes…

Here is yet another chapter cut from my book.  To be fair, the first draft of the book was over 800-pages so it would have ended up about 3-inches thick… not a good airport book.  According to the publishers to be a good seller a book should be thick enough to look authoritative, yet be…

This chapter of my book, Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver, was written in 2006, and has only been seen by a select few ever since.  It was a tremendous amount of work and a labor of love.  I considered these 20-pages to be some of my best work, but the editors reduced it…

Here is yet another chapter that was cut from my book.  Since this was one of the early chapters it would have been written in 2005 or 2006, but now I have extended it with some updated commentary at the end.  Since my book was going to be published by the largest publisher in the…

Here’s another chapter cut from my book. Mike     It’s Not Easy Being Green (Click here) (And here) for the original Lincoln’s Greenback vs. the Confederate Dollar The American Civil War started in 1861.  Soon after it began both the Union (north) and the Confederacy (south) levied taxes, tariffs, borrowed heavily by issuing all…

This was another short, but important, chapter that the editors cut from my book. Enjoy Mike     The Golden Rule The Classical Gold Standard: 1871 – 1913 When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, the 22 states of the North German Confederation joined with Baden, Bavaria, and Wurttemberg, to fight against France. At…