The U.S. is in deep trouble. America's financial house of cards is beginning to concern informed individuals (and foreigners) while the vast majority appear either indifferent or unaware of our nation's serious vulnerability. America's Financial Reckoning Day is a wake-up call to the baby-boom generation that a hyperinflationary depression and America's loss of leadership in the world is a distinct possibility in the near future. Chuck Coppes has carefully researched and skillfully presented a compelling case for America's obsolescence and political paradigms that will help redefine the 21st Century. This is a hard-hitting book about banking intrigue, political malfeasance, treachery, and a prophetic odyssey that reads like an Orwellian novel. It is also a book about survival that will challenge your personal and financial priorities as you read through the final chapters. This book serves as a good reminder that our lives have meaning and significance in God's plan for the future. For a thorough understanding of the critical times we are living in, it is recommended that you find a quiet place on a peaceful weekend and read this fascinating book in its entirety - and then pass it along to someone you care about. This review is from: America's Financial Reckoning Day: How you can survive Americas monetary & political decline in the 21st Century (Paperback) 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 -- 5.0 out of 5 stars America's certain financial decline--- in verifiable FACT and detail. A must read., November 19, 2007 This review is from: America's Financial Reckoning Day: How you can survive America's monetary& political decline in the 21st Century (Hardcover) What Charles Coppes has accomplished in his book "America's Financial Reckoning Day" is to bring the reader face to face with the two things that Americans today do not want to hear. 1) Truth. This nation is in deep trouble, morally, politically and financially. We have strayed far from the guiding principles found in our Constitution and in the document that the framers used to guide its writing - the Bible. There are practical ways to prepare for what is coming if one has the "eyes to see and ears to hear." The reader is left with a choice - continue processing information from the mainstream media through what may be a very broken grid - or rework their grid to accept the truth presented. 2) Consequences. The result of our ignorance and apathy has consequences. If this nation had heeded the warnings in this book when it was first released, we may have been able to avoid some of the difficult times which are dead ahead. Sadly, it is too late now. Our nation's experiment with central banking, elite money changers, debt as a means toward "growth" and politicians who only understand the next election cycle - that experiment is coming to an end. What happens in the next 3 to 5 years will determin