When it was released a year ago this month, James Rickards' "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis" was widely hailed and quickly adopted as a guidebook of sorts for economic conservatives, Fed critics and especially gold bugs, given Rickards' support for a return to the gold standard. Since the book's release, the Federal Reserve has tripled-down on its policy of quantitative easing, effectively pledging to keep rates at zero indefinitely — or until the job market dramatically improves. Nevertheless, predictions of the dollar's demise have proven unwarranted, or certainly premature. Among other ... (full story)