During his campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to defend the little guy against the evils of corporate America. But the reality is precisely the opposite: President Obama's policies are spelling gargantuan profits for the biggest and most well-connected businesses -- at the expense of their competitors, small businesses, consumers and taxpayers. Now, in Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You And Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, And Union Bosses, investigative reporter Tim Carney reveals how Obama's dramatic shift towards big government is yielding huge benefits for big business and their lobbyists -- and losses for average Americans.

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You can believe President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress -- or you can face reality: America is sinking into its second Great Depression, the inevitable consequence of a massive mortgage meltdown and once-in-a-century debt crisis for which the Democrats' multi-trillion-dollar "stimulus" is just gasoline on the fire. And while almost everyone in Washington and on Wall Street was blindsided by the crisis, investment expert Martin Weiss was not. As editor of the popular Safe Money Report and chairman of The Weiss Group, Inc., Weiss specifically warned of our current crisis well before it began -- specifically forecasting the financial difficulties of Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, General Motors, and Citigroup, among others. Now, in The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide, Weiss leads you to the truly safe havens -- and shows you how to transform today's financial crisis into a unique wealth-building opportunity.

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He all but shouted it from the rooftops. Beginning in 2006, in appearances on CNBC's Kudlow & Company and other financial talk-shows, and also in his bestselling book, Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, financial guru Peter Schiff was virtually alone in making a number of dire economic forecasts which have since come to pass -- among them the collapse of the mortgage market, the demise of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the implosion of the real estate market, and the surge in gold prices. Now, as we watch established financial institutions go from bankruptcy to bailouts to oblivion, and the U.S. spiral into a depression, Schiff shares his unconventional wisdom on how to protect your wealth from a collapsing dollar, a real estate bust, and plunging stock prices.

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Since the fall of 2008 -- as the stock market plummeted, companies folded, and millions were put out of work -- Americans have been bombarded with a relentless refrain: the free market economy has failed. The remedy? According to Barack Obama, the late Bush Administration, Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and the mainstream media, it's more regulation, more government intervention, and more spending. But now, in Meltdown: A Free MArket Look at Why the Stock Maket Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, bestselling author Thomas E. Woods Jr. demonstrates that the current crisis was caused not by the free market but by the government's intervention in the market -- and that further intervention in the form of trillion-dollar bailouts and "stimulus packages" will only deepen and prolong the pain.

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The U.S. dollar is "the world's money," the de facto foundation of the global monetary system. But with foreign- financed U.S. debt levels soaring, real estate values plunging, and unfunded government liabilities surging, "the world's money” is not well -- indeed, a a potential dollar collapse is now openly discussed in financial circles. What can you do to protect your life's savings? In Buy Gold Now: How a Real Estate Bust, Our Bulging National Debt, and the Languishing Dollar Will Push Gold to Record Highs, investment expert Shayne McGuire explains why the opportunity to profit in gold -- which remains one of the least-owned financial assets, representing less than 2% of the typical investment portfolio -- has never been better.

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The greatest and most enduring economic myth of the twentieth century is the idea that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal pulled America out of the Great Depression. This fantasy is so prevalent even today that liberal Democratic leaders in Congress call for a "new" New Deal to lift the incomes of the middle class and shelter American workers from the competitive forces of a global economy. Now, in New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, Burton Folsom makes the case that government intervention, not private enterprise, both triggered and prolonged the Great Depression -- and that much of what is threatening American prosperity today has its seeds in the government programs of the '30s and the New Deal legacy FDR left behind.

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World War I used to be just "the Great War." It didn't acquire a number until an even bigger World War came along to put it in its historical place.

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So much of our national political debate these days revolves around economic matters -- taxes, health care, even affirmative action and immigration policy -- that it is essential for every informed American to have a working knowledge of economics. In Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, the renowned conservative economist Thomas Sowell has made it possible for you to grasp quickly and easily the economic elements of key public policies. Better yet, this revised and expanded edition now includes material on the roots of the Crash of 2008, the economics of immigration, and other timely topics.

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Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John Lott answers these and other common economic questions, fearlessly confronting the profound distrust of the market (exemplified by make-a-buck pseudo-analyses like the book Freakonomics) that has spread even among the citizens and governing elites in America and other wealthy, free nations -- despite the proven success of the free market. read more

Three years ago, Neal Boortz and John Linder unveiled a bold, ground-breaking new plan to jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, recapture billions of untaxed dollars hoarded by criminal and offshore businesses, and –- best of all -- to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS altogether. Their book explaining how, The FairTax Book, rocketed to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, propelling a powerful grassroots tax reform movement that continues spreading like wildfire across our nation.

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America's federal income tax code is a horror of incomprehensible complexity, corruption, and opportunity-killing provisions. Meanwhile, our competitive position in the world economy is being threatened and undermined by a worldwide wave of tax simplification. Nations -- such as Russia, Hong Kong, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia -- who are instituting simple, low-rate Flat Tax systems are providing enormous incentives for economic growth, while America's tax code continues to grow into an out-of-control and burdensome beast. Now, in Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS, Steve Forbes proposes a grassroots revolution to overhaul the current 9 million-word tax code to unshackle the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of American workers.

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The financial crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in a widespread reaction against globalization and free markets, and an improbably fast comeback for big government. All the more reason to understand the real causes of the meltdown -- not in free trade and free markets, argues Johan Norberg, but in the very kind of government meddling in the economy that is now being pursued as the solution to the crisis. Now, in Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis, Norberg tells the story of how rate-cutting by the Federal Reserve inflated the real estate market and fueled increased risk-taking in the financial markets; how new government policies to promote home ownership blasted air into the credit bubble; how new financial instruments, credit-rating requirements, and accounting rules intended to prevent cheating backfired; and much more.

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