Getting Into Get-Rich-Quick Books
September, 1979
One by-product of inflation, or any severe distortion in the economy, is that it creates a raging bull market in books that tell you how to get rich. The unique quality of the current crop is that they also tell you how to merely survive. From scrutiny of these tomes, it would seem that the higher the book rises on the bestseller list, the less rational the solution to either greater wealth or mere survival. For example, one current best seller, Howard J. Ruff's How to Prosper During the Coming...
