One year before the fall of Lehman Brothers, my first book was published in the Netherlands (Als de dollar valt – If the Dollar Collapses, 2007). After studying the financial system for over ten years, I had come to the conclusion that a collapse of the unstable global financial system – and its mountain of debt – was ‘only a matter of time’. After the house of cards collapsed just one year later, my life changed dramatically. Within a short period of time, I became a well-known personality in the Netherlands. I decided to quit my job as market commentator for the business channel RTL Z in order to focus on business opportunities arising from the new economic reality. I believed this new reality would entice investors to look seriously at investing in hard assets, especially gold and silver. We have seen precedents of this in every crisis for the last 300 years. I subsequently started a web shop for gold and silver bullion (AmsterdamGold.com) and set up a commodity fund (Commodity Discovery Fund). AmsterdamGold was sold to the listed Value8 in the summer of 2011, after yearly sales reached 100 million euros. In the same period, three more of my books became bestsellers. None of them were ever translated into English.

This book combines information from all previous books with an additional chapter on the expected Big Reset for the current worldwide monetary system. The book tells the story of a mostly hidden world of money and gold which I hope will also be of interest to a larger, international public. This revised edition contains an extra 30.000 words analyzing the latest developments, since the first print early 2014.