The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

And when you when I describe it, you'll know why.

There's a book called The Ascent of Money.

It's written by Niall Ferguson.

He's not an investment manager anymore.

A recent one became the cover story of Newsweek.

He has also authored several books, including The Ascent of Money, and more recently, The West and the Rest.

Both were turned into PBS specials.

Over the past 500 plus years, the West, Europe, and later the United States, came to dominate the world stage, economically, politically, and militarily.