okay, finished that after dinner this evening- it was neat to learn about the American economic warfare during Vietnam (the gold standard era). I'm a bit skeptical of their ultimate pitch, though. The funny thing is that even though they're talking about the post-empire era in general, everything they're describing is- surprise surprise- from the post-1971 fiat era. The pitch is that all this bad stuff is due to financial privacy, and if we only had better surveillance and more taxation, everything would be fine.