[ebaysucks]

I second this recommendation. After reading this book, I suggest "What has government done to our money?" by Murray Rothbard to understand the monetary problems in more depth.

Edit: Here are free pdf's for these 2 books:

1) http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf 2) http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf

[steins]

and 1 more source: http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf