Improve Financial Literacy – Books & Documentaries

The following list of books and documentaries represents an overview of the major financial shift that started happening a few decades ago. Not only in the US – in most industrial countries. The financial markets and societies are experiencing a paradigm shift. Most financial concepts and rules that used to be successful are no longer working.

These recommendations won’t provide you with a silver bullet on how to manage your money. However, they will provide you with a deep insight into the mechanics of money itself. How it has changed over the last 100 years, the consequences, and where it may go. It also shows you how central banks and governments have changed the meaning and the value of money, without you even noticing. It explains the major shifts in economics, education, and in wealth distribution worldwide.

From that perspective you will gain a solid, free from deception, financial knowledge that no universities, bankers or financial experts can ever provide. It will empower you to take full responsibility, and it will lead you to make better financial decisions. Eventually it will free you from money itself.

Dictionaries

Financial Terms Dictionary – Free Version with 200 Topics
Thomas Herold & Wesley Crowder

Financial Terms Dictionary – Terminology Plain & Simple Explained
Thomas Herold & Wesley Crowder

Investing

Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver
Michael Maloney

Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Protecting Your Financial Future
Pamela Yellen

Mindset

Rich Dad’s Prophecy
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechterr

Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity
Edmund J. Bourne

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Douglas Rushkoff

Wealth

Sustainable Wealth
Axel Merk, William Poole

Unlimited Wealth: The Theory and Practice of Economic Alchemy
Pilzer, Paul Zane

Money & Currency

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin, Dan Smoot

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
Thomas H. Greco Jr.