America's Financial Reckoning Day: How you can survive Americas monetary & political decline in the 21st Century [Paperback]

Charles H. Coppes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2007

The history and founding of America is almost a fairy tale of providence and good fortune. As Senate Chaplain Dr. Peter Marshall has recounted in his classic book, The Light and the Glory, no other nation has been blessed with such an abundance of material wealth and spiritual heritage as the United States of America. In 1787, our Founding Fathers established a near-perfect system of representative government and sound monetary policy. Yet, as our nation enters the 21st Century there is a great foreboding that our financial infrastructure is facing unprecedented challenges in addition to serious geopolitical developments that threaten our very existence. How has this happened to the most powerful nation on earth, and what will be the likely outcome? To answer these questions it is necessary to examine the monetary history of the U.S. up to the present hour and also look back to ancient prophecies that are contained in the Bible. Here is a gripping account that will captivate and enlighten you. It is also a message of hope and inspiration that you will want to share with others. There is no need to “close our eyes” if we can confidently look into our future.

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America's Financial Reckoning Day is an extremely timely book written for lay readers who need to understand our monetary system in the U.S. and how the Federal Reserve System and political power in both national parties have participated in the growth of our Welfare State in America. With sobering and exacting detail this book examines the history of money, central banking, and political intrigue that is setting the stage for America's fiscal crisis along with significant political paradigms and prophetic implications for the baby-boom generation. Filled with in-depth insights and analysis the author has presented a clear case for our nation's geopolitical obsolescence and the rise of the European Union as a superpower on the world stage, China's economic future, the politics of oil, and war in the Middle East. This intriguing text offers the reader a unique blend of historical facts and contemporary developments from a Biblical perspective and concludes with an inspirational message of hope for the reader. This book could very well prove to be one of the most relevant books in our time.

From the Author

In recent years, Americans are becoming increasingly aware that our nation is accumulating massive government debt in addition to record trade deficits and looming unfunded liabilities. As a nation we are entering into some dangerous territory. In the subtle words of former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, "...the current imbalances are large and unusual from a historical perspective." And indeed they are. When President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 the national debt stood at $1 trillion dollars. While President Reagan considered this figure to be "incomprehensible" it might be helpful to consider that a trillion seconds would take 30,000 years. With that in mind, the current national debt is now approaching $9 trillion dollars, in 2006 the Annual Budget was $2.6 trillion, and the fiscal 2007 Annual Budget is expected to be almost $3 trillion dollars! In prepared testimony before the Senate Budget Committee Alan Greenspan has warned that "...the federal budget is on an unsustainable path" and concluded with the observation that "our budget position is unlikely to improve substantially in the coming years."

So what does this mean for the American people? Put simply, America is continuing on an unsustainable path toward fiscal bankruptcy, and our financial reckoning day is now looming on the horizon. America is now the world's largest debtor nation, and new Fed chairman Ben Bernacke will not be successful in averting this monetary crisis. As Adam Smith has stated in his classic book The Wealth of Nations, the only way to "liberate" excessive national debt is through a bankruptcy. What is true for individuals is also true for nations. The theme of this book will help explain how we got into this intractable mess and what the likely outcome will be as we go into the 21st century.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595420419
• ISBN-13: 978-0595420414
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,178,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles (Chuck) Coppes grew up in northern Indiana in an upper-middle class family and moved to Phoenix, Arizona as a teenager in 1969. Following a tour on the DMZ in South Korea he received an honorable discharge from the US Army in 1974. In the late 1970s he began to explore an important question - what is money? In other words, what is this "thing" that we are all striving for? This search inexorably led to a life-changing discovery that historically money has always been a tangible "store of value" and this is not what we have today. This knowledge has led to a career in financial services and helping clients to understand monetary history, macroeconomics, geopolitics and current affairs from a distinctly Christian worldview.

Today he is the founder and president of IDP Consulting Group, LLC, which is an independent precious metals brokerage firm offering a wide range of services for a discriminating client base. With a business and management background in sales/marketing since 1975, Chuck has assisted clients with portfolio diversification in precious metals and numismatic certified rare coins since 1992. In addition, he has been a licensed securities broker and has worked with three national firms providing overall financial planning advice for conservative investors seeking capital preservation and moderate portfolio growth. As a published author and lecturer, he has been a featured guest on local and national radio talk programs with topics ranging from politics, economics and religion.

His first book was entitled Millennium Time Bomb published in 1998 and received five-star reviews on Amazon. He has also authored 35 research papers on the graduate level, and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Christian Apologetics and Comparative Religions. Receiving full scholarship awards at his alma mater located in Phoenix, Arizona, he also served as Senior Class President from 1989-1990. He is listed as a permanent member of the National Dean's List and Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities 1989-1990. He also qualified as a contestant for the 8th Annual Milton Friedman National Economic Essay Contest sponsored by the Americanism Educational League in association with the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He is the former editor of the international newsletter Pressing Toward the Mark (1995-1997) which researched bio-chip applications and positive ID technologies in the computer industry, and is a strong advocate of personal and corporate asset protection and privacy. An avid student of history, economics and theology, his articles have appeared in national newsletters and various publications.

His most recent book, America's Financial Reckoning Day, was released in early 2007 and is the culmination of two years of intense research and writing on a vitally important subject that will affect each and every American in the very near future. For more insight you can visit his website at www.chuckcoppes.com.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars America's certain financial decline--- in verifiable FACT and detail. A must read., November 19, 2007

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John Lewandoski "John Lewandoski" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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Having recently completed Mr. Coppes' excellent handling of precisely where America is heading financially (and otherwise to some degree), it is strongly suggested that completely irrespective of party affiliation, a sitdown session with this book is in order. The reader is wholly presented with a "fiscal revelation" you'll never, ever, hear on the 6:30 news or from any of the hopefuls for 2008. The stuff in this book is PRECISELY what the candidates should be head over heels to address, but expect not one twit from the Beltway that even touches on the extraordinatry slippery slope upon which we Americans, fiscally, both nationally AND internationally, find ourselves. It ain't pretty...

Well explained, in profuse historical detail, AND with replete references, you will learn what goes on behind the scenes of American economics, as well as in-depth detail on why (and because of whom) we have landed, economically, at the current precipice to which few refer, especially Wall Street. This no-nonsense exposition, written plainly for any reasonably intelligent American, patriotic layman will connect many of the dots referencing WHY the seemingly disjointed economic news we hear simply doesn't make much sense.

Oil--- a big-time player in current economic events, is especially well addressed. The author takes the reader back to western PA where the now-worldwide oil monster once began under the subsequent magic, as it were, of J.D. Rockefeller. Here's where much of today's oily issues once began; it's a history we all need to know IN ORDER TO understand today's economic events that so much center around world industrialization.

Chapters dealing with the European model for central banking, from where the Federal Reserve REALLY came, the global realignment of world power and planning/investing wisely in a transitory and uncertain world round out the gist of this excellent "documentary", really, on global economics that will certainly affect you and me.

Not for the faint of heart that wants the real truth, nor for a superficial reader; i.e., considerable detail. Your country, your money, your future.

JL

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Decline in the 21st Century, July 1, 2008

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What a fantistic book! When I first started reading the book I started to think Mr. Coppes was an off the wall nut job but then his words and the power of his words drew me in deeper and deeper into his ideas. I am an easy-going, mellow, slow, low key Christian. I am a lazy Christian. Mr. Coppes is a very intense Christian who believes in fire and hell and Jesus might come again soon. He might be right. Jesus could come tomorrow or 1,000 years from now. I don't know and I am not concerned about when. I am concerned about now. I am concerned about paper money, government debt, trade, social security, medicare falling apart, crime, peak oil and my kids future. Mr. Coppes is a very, very smart cookie and knows a lot about these subjects I care about. Some readers might be put off by his intense Christianity. Don't be. Most people go buy books in which they know they agree with before they read it. Conservatives don't go buy liberal books, liberals don't go buy books by conservative writers. They want to read something that will support ideas that they already have. Challenge yourself and read Mr. Coppes book. It will make you think. It will challenge your ideas and give you tons of other references to check out. Most ecellent in a strange kind of way! Regards, Keith Renick, Peachtree City, Ga.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What happened to all of our money?, October 5, 2007

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Mark C. Henning "Loves2Learn" (Merriam, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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Having read this book a year ago, then again recently, Mr. Coppes has been amazingly accurate with the predictions he made regarding the finacial collapse of the USA. There is no way you can read this and not be prepared for what is to come. It's late, but still not too late to set yourself up to survive in what looks to be, well,for lack of a better description, a new world dis-order. He predicted the sub-prime/housing collapse. Order this book to find out what is coming next. It's right around the corner.