CONTENTS
Introduction
Notes from Robert Kiyosaki: Fast Forward… to Today
PART ONE: The Conspiracy
Chapter One
Can Obama Save the World?
Chapter Two
The Conspiracy Against Our Education
Chapter Three
The Conspiracy Against Our Money: The Bank Never Goes Broke
Chapter Four
The Conspiracy Against Our Wealth
Chapter Five
The Conspiracy Against Our Financial Intelligence
PART TWO: Fighting Back
Chapter Six
Where We Are Today
Chapter Seven
What’s the Name of Your Game?
Chapter Eight
Print Your Own Money
Chapter Nine
The Secret of Success: Sell
Chapter Ten
Building for the Future
Chapter Eleven
Financial Education: An Unfair Advantage
Chapter Twelve
If I Ran the School System
In Conclusion
Afterwords
Special Bonus Q and A
Has Anything Changed?
Unfortunately, not much has changed since Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich was first published in 2009. The nation’s bankers and political leaders continue on the same path with the same policies that led up to the crash of 2007.
Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
His definition needs to be updated to:
“Why not keep doing the same things as long as no one cares?”
Who cares if the ultra-rich put the global economic system on the verge of collapse? Who cares that entire countries, states, and cities are in bankruptcy or on the verge of bankruptcy? Who cares that millions of people have lost their jobs? Who cares that millions of homeowners have lost their homes? Who cares that the rich get richer when they’re lucky, and that the taxpayers pay the bills when the rich are unlucky?
Simply said, the Conspiracy of the Rich has made the rich richer. Rather than put the bankers in jail, they’ve paid billions of dollars in bonuses. Rather than put corrupt politicians on trial, they were offered “day jobs” by the very same corrupt corporations they were “look-outs” for while the “bank robberies” were taking place… and when they should have been watchdogs and advocates for their constituencies and the American people. So far, not one high-level banker or politician has been charged, much less brought to trial.
In other words, not much has changed since Conspiracy of the Rich was first published in 2009.
What has happened to the soul of our country? Is it that we just don’t care—or do we, still, have no idea what’s going on? Do we actually believe a new President will change things for the better? Or have we, too, lost our souls, wanting only to grab as much money as we can before the next crash?
I believe Dr. Buckminster Fuller said it best, in 1983:
“The dark ages still reign over all humanity and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
“The dark ages has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of unconditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand.”
No, not much has changed since 2009. And as you read this book, that could be a good thing. You will find out that what has been going on throughout history is still going on today.
Why I Wrote This Book for You in 2009
In 1971, President Richard Nixon, without the approval of Congress, took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard and changed the rules of money—not just for the United States, but also for the world. This change was one in a series of changes leading to our current financial crisis that began in 2007. In effect, this change allowed the United States to print almost unlimited amounts of money and create as much debt as it wanted.
Is our current economic crisis just an accident, a one-off event? Some say yes. I say no.
Can those in power solve our current economic crisis? Many hope so, but again I say no. How can the crisis be solved when the very people and organizations that created the crisis—and profit from it—are still in charge? The problem is that the crisis is not diminishing, as some would hope. It’s getting bigger. In the 1980s, government bailouts were in the millions. By the 1990s they were in the billions. And today, they are in the trillions.
One definition of crisis I like to use is “change that is screaming to occur.” I personally do not think our leaders will change. That means you and I must change instead.
While this book is about a conspiracy, it is not meant to be a witch hunt, to place blame, or to call for resignations. As we all know, the world is filled with conspiracies, some benign, some more sinister. Every time a sports team goes into the locker room at halftime, that act is technically a conspiracy against the opposing team. Wherever there is self-interest, there is a conspiracy.
The reason this book is titled Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich is because it is about how the rich control the world economy via the banks, governments, and financial
