How To Spin Gold Into Straw

A pro business, pro people, pro growth, pro freedom fable. Truth and facts versus ideas; that is the story. Real freedom and wealth versus dogma and doctrine; that is the choice. Because in the ongoing struggle between facts and ideas, it is truth and facts that can lead to greatness, and ideas that can destroy it all. The working title was "The Idea Guys," because it is the guys with the big ideas who are always the greatest threat to what we have and what we can have. - Dennis Paulaha


"There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea-breaker."

- Miguel de Unamuno

Spanish philosopher, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet.

September 29, 1864 - December 31, 1936


"I wrote this little book to scare people into voting by showing how we are encouraging our own destruction by not standing up for and protecting what made this the greatest country in the world, even if it was for only a short time." - Dennis Paulaha


B.S. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington. As a college and university professor, taught macroeconomic and microeconomic theory at the principles, intermediate, advanced, and graduate level, monetary theory and policy, environmental economics, and special issues courses. Wrote investment newsletters with as many as 70,000 paid subscribers. Reviewed in magazines and newspapers. Interviewed on television and radio programs.