Read with right attitude, enough intelligence

No one would ever challenge the consensus that lessons learned from the past should be a guide for the future. But can we humans as a whole really learn lessons from what has happened? Even if we sometimes can, it is not that easy.

The discussion about the cause or causes for the current financial crisis will definitely continue even years after the world economy completely recovers. In spite of many books or essays that have already been published offering explanations or understanding of the crisis, the views vary about the very root cause. The government bailout plans can hardly be believed to be the right remedy to eradicate the cause of the disease if it can be described thus.

In the circumstances, some tend to believe that there is a conspiracy behind the crisis, with a view to getting control of the world's wealth. The book The War of Currency written by a Chinese, who has studied abroad and worked in financial institutions in the United States, unfolds a picture of how such a conspiracy has been working in the past more than three centuries.