involving not merely economics, but also foreign exchange and commodity price movement as well as the events within the eternal sea of politics itself.

No matter who takes up the crusade to write of events long since past, they often begin with some preconceived notion of what may have taken place. Others often select facts which only support their own distorted or personal views. I should state for the record that when I began this project, I was under several false assumptions.
The preconceived ideas that I had at the outset, were completely destroyed in the final conclusion. The compiling of all these facts and statistics has taken what often seemed to be a lifetime, but in the end I have emerged with a more clear understanding of how and why we are now in the position that we so sadly find ourselves today.