David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, Cindy S. Spitzer
Aftershock
Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
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Secure your financial future before the next big bubble bursts Aftershock provides a definitive look at the economic climate still ahead in 2015-and beyond-and details the steps you can take now to secure your financial future. Written by the authors who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, this book serves as both a warning and a game plan for investors looking to avoid catastrophic loss. This updated fourth edition has been expanded with new actionable insights about protection and profits in an increasingly confusing investment environment, and includes the latest…mehr
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Secure your financial future before the next big bubble bursts
Aftershock provides a definitive look at the economic climate still ahead in 2015-and beyond-and details the steps you can take now to secure your financial future. Written by the authors who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, this book serves as both a warning and a game plan for investors looking to avoid catastrophic loss. This updated fourth edition has been expanded with new actionable insights about protection and profits in an increasingly confusing investment environment, and includes the latest data, updated charts and tables, and brand new coverage of monetary stimulus. With a look back at the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock, and private debt bubbles that triggered the last major crisis, this book paints a vivid picture of what to expect the next time the world s economy pops. You ll learn how to protect your assets before and during the coming fall, and how to capitalize on the opportunities everyone else is missing.
The housing bubble has popped, toppling banks and sending shockwaves of stock market misery around the world. It may seem like the worst is over. It s not. This book shows you what s still to come, and how to ride the crest instead of being sucked under.
Learn when, why, and how the global bubble will burst
Understand the repercussions that will reach into your accounts
Get up to date on the data, with expert analysis and insight
Start protecting yourself now with a few smart investment moves
The stock market, real estate, consumer spending, private debt, dollar, and government debt bubbles will burst, driving up unemployment, devaluing the dollar, and causing deep global recession. Aftershock helps you fortify your assets before the wave so you can enjoy clear skies after the storm.
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Aftershock provides a definitive look at the economic climate still ahead in 2015-and beyond-and details the steps you can take now to secure your financial future. Written by the authors who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, this book serves as both a warning and a game plan for investors looking to avoid catastrophic loss. This updated fourth edition has been expanded with new actionable insights about protection and profits in an increasingly confusing investment environment, and includes the latest data, updated charts and tables, and brand new coverage of monetary stimulus. With a look back at the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock, and private debt bubbles that triggered the last major crisis, this book paints a vivid picture of what to expect the next time the world s economy pops. You ll learn how to protect your assets before and during the coming fall, and how to capitalize on the opportunities everyone else is missing.
The housing bubble has popped, toppling banks and sending shockwaves of stock market misery around the world. It may seem like the worst is over. It s not. This book shows you what s still to come, and how to ride the crest instead of being sucked under.
Learn when, why, and how the global bubble will burst
Understand the repercussions that will reach into your accounts
Get up to date on the data, with expert analysis and insight
Start protecting yourself now with a few smart investment moves
The stock market, real estate, consumer spending, private debt, dollar, and government debt bubbles will burst, driving up unemployment, devaluing the dollar, and causing deep global recession. Aftershock helps you fortify your assets before the wave so you can enjoy clear skies after the storm.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 4. Aufl.
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
- Gewicht: 730g
- ISBN-13: 9781119118503
- ISBN-10: 1119118506
- Artikelnr.: 42458145
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 4. Aufl.
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
- Gewicht: 730g
- ISBN-13: 9781119118503
- ISBN-10: 1119118506
- Artikelnr.: 42458145
DAVID WIEDEMER, PHD, is a world leader in macro-evolutionary economic analysis. His work in information dynamics, technological evolution, and economic history form the basis for the predictions in Aftershock. Dr. Wiedemer is the Chief Economist for Ark Financial Management. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ROBERT A. WIEDEMER is a Managing Director of Ark Financial Management, a macro-focused money management firm that is in alignment with the macroeconomic analysis and perspective of Aftershock. CINDY S. SPITZER is an award winning writer, bestselling coauthor, and president of Aftershock Consultants LLC, an investment advisory and macroeconomic consulting firm providing support and insights to individuals, businesses, and groups, based on the ideas in Aftershock.
Executive Summary xiii Acknowledgments xv Preface xvii Introduction: Your
Guide to the Fourth Edition of Aftershock xxi Part I: The Coming Aftershock
1 Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake Why the Aftershock Has Not
Been Canceled 3 Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All? 5 If
the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? 7 Still
Not Convinced This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake? 17 Don't Believe the
Stimulus Has to Eventually End? 25 Please Prepare Now 30 Chapter 2:
America's Bubble Economy Understanding How We Accurately Predicted the
Financial Crisis of 2008 Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions
Are Also Correct 33 Because Our Earlier Books Were Right, Now You Can Be
Right, Too 38 Didn't Other Bearish Analysts Get It Right, Too? 41 How the
"Experts" Got It So Wrong 43 Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry
Paulson--We Trust These Officials with Our Economy 48 Where We Have Been
Wrong 49 Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst Pop Go the Housing,
Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles 55 Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review
of America's Bubble Economy 56 From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward
Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward Spiral 62 Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
64 Pop Goes the Stock Market Bubble 70 Pop Goes the Private Debt Bubble 74
Pop Goes the Discretionary Spending Bubble 77 The Biggest, Baddest, Bad
Loan of Them All 80 Chapter 4: The Market Cliff Not Your Father's Down
Cycle 83 The Market Cliff Won't Be Just a "Down Cycle" 84 Hitting the
Market Cliff 89 The Last Resort: A Stock Market Holiday 93 When Is the Best
Time to Get Out of the Stock Market? 95 Chapter 5: Massive Money Printing
Will Eventually Cause Dangerous Inflation--So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?
97 What Is Inflation? 98 What Exactly Is Money Printing? 99 How Does Money
Printing Cause Inflation? 101 Central Banks Gone Wild: The World Is
Printing Money 103 Where Is Inflation Hiding? 107 The Arguments against
Future Inflation Simply Don't Hold Up 113 This Is Not a Plan--It's a Panic!
120 The Real Problem with Rising Future Inflation: High Interest Rates 121
The Fed's Big Blind Spot: They Don't Understand Where Growth Comes From
(Hint: It Doesn't Come from Rising Bubbles or Massive Money Printing to
Support the Bubbles) 125 When Will Inflation Begin? When Group Psychology
Turns Negative after the Market Cliff 129 The Inflation Deniers Are Liars!
133 Chapter 6: Phase 2: The Aftershock Pop Go the Dollar and Government
Debt Bubbles 137 The Dollar Bubble: Hard to See without Bubble?]Vision
Glasses 138 The Government Debt Bubble Pops 158 The Aftershock 165 The Six
Psychological Stages of Denial 166 Is There Any Scenario for a Soft
Landing? 170 Chapter 7: Global Mega-Money Meltdown It's Not Just America's
Bubble Economy--It's the World's Bubble Economy 173 The United States Will
Suffer the Least 174 Think of the World's Bubble Economy in Two Categories:
Manufacturing and Resource Extraction 175 How the Bursting Bubbles Will
Impact the World 179 If the World's Bubble Economy Is Hit Harder than the
U.S. Bubble Economy, Won't That Be Good for the Dollar? 188 If the Rest of
the World Is Collapsing, Won't That Be Good for Gold? 188 International
Investment Recommendations 190 Chapter 8: "You're No Fun" What I Hear
Traveling Across Our United States 193 By Aftershock Co-author Robert
Wiedemer Florida:"You're No Fun" 193 Philadelphia: Wharton Meets Wall
Street 197 Green Bay, Wisconsin: I Can Be a Cheerleader, Too--in the Right
Places 199 North Carolina: People Know in Their Gut that What I'm Saying
May Be Correct 201 New York City: The Turkeys Were Living the Good Life
Until ... 202 New York City Again: When You Abolish Failure, You
Institutionalize Stupidity 203 One Last New York Story: Is He Really Smart
or Really Stupid? 204 A State of Extreme Denial Exists in Parts of the
United States 205 What's the Smart Money Doing Now? Just What They Did
Before the 2008 Financial Crisis! Same Denial Now as Before 207 The Sun
Will Shine after Every Storm (From My Hotel Room in North Carolina) 209
Part II: Aftershock Dangers and Profits 213 Chapter 9: Covering Your Assets
How Not to Lose Money 215 The Three Rules for Not Losing Money 215 These
Rules Are Simple but Not Easy! 216 Long Term versus Short Term 218 Rule 1:
Exit Stocks Well Before the Market Cliff 221 Rule 2: Stay Away from Real
Estate Until after All the Bubbles Pop 228 Rule 3: Avoid Bonds and Most
Fixed?]Rate Investments as Interest Rates Rise 241 Where's the Best Place
to Stash Cash? 243 How Long Must We Follow These Three Rules? 243 Letting
Go Is Hard to Do 244 What Else Can I Do to Protect Myself? 247 Remember,
Your Net Worth Is Not Your Self?]Worth 249 Chapter 10: Cashing In on Chaos
Best Aftershock Investments 251 Plenty of Profit Opportunities, but They
Will Feel Quite Uncomfortable, Even Scary at Times 251 This Economy Is
Evolving; Your Investments Should Evolve, Too 252 Three Goals of an
Evolving Aftershock Investment Portfolio 254 Reducing Risk with a New Kind
of Diversification 256 Two Other Aftershock Investments after the Bubbles
Pop: Foreign Currencies and Foreign Bonds 272 Timing Is Everything before
the Bubbles Pop, but Your Timing Won't Be Perfect 274 Putting It All
Together 275 Chapter 11: Aftershock Jobs and Businesses 279 The Rising
Bubble Economy Created Huge Job Growth; Now the Falling Bubble Economy
Means Fewer Jobs 280 Conventional Wisdom about Future Job Growth Is Based
on Faith that the Future Will Be Like the Past 281 Why Conventional Wisdom
on Jobs Is Wrong 283 What's a Savvy Aftershock Job Seeker to Do? 284 The
Falling Bubbles Will Have Varying Impacts on Three Broad Economic Sectors
286 Should I Go to College? 296 Opportunities after the Bubbles Pop:
Cashing In on Distressed Assets 297 Dig Your Well before You Are Thirsty
298 Chapter 12: Understanding Our Problems Is the First Step Toward Solving
Our Problems 299 If You Don't Understand Why an Economy Grows, You Can't
Understand Why It Doesn't Grow 300 You Need to See the Big Picture before
You Start to Focus 301 Key Breakthroughs in the History of Economic Thought
302 Economics Needs a Breakthrough Big?]Picture Idea like Geology Needed
Continental Drift 309 So Why Aren't We Getting an Alfred Wegener wor a
Breakthrough Idea like Continental Drift? 311 Economists Have Become
Academia's Version of Financial Cheerleaders 311 The Demands to Get Tenure
and the Rewards of the Good Life after Tenure Have Delivered a One?]Two
Punch to Creative Economic Thought 312 Where to Now? Answer: Economics
Needs to Move from Being a Collection of Competing Philosophies to Being a
Unified Science 315 Four Key Elements for Making Economics More of a
Science 317 Where Do We Stand Today in Making This Transition? 321 The
Economics Profession Does Not Want to Make This Transition 322 The Solution
to the Lack of Interest in Making Important Changes in Economics: The
Coming Aftershock 324 Chapter 13: Our Predictions Have Mostly Been
Accurate, So Why Do Some People Still Dislike Them? 327 It's Not a
Cheerleading Book 329 It's Not a Complex Book (Although It Is Based on
Complex Analysis) 330 It's Not a Crazy Book 333 It's Not an Academic Book
333 It's Not Suggesting Armageddon 334 It's Not a Reality?]Denying Book 335
Us versus the Comforters: How Aftershock Stacks Up against Other Bearish
Books 335 Appendix: Are the Bond, Stock, and Gold Markets Manipulated? 343
Bond Market Manipulation 343 Stock Market Manipulation 344 Gold Market
Manipulation 351 Market Manipulation Summary 354 Investment Impact 355
Bibliography 357 Epilogue: Say Good-Bye to the Age of Excess 363 Index 367
Guide to the Fourth Edition of Aftershock xxi Part I: The Coming Aftershock
1 Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake Why the Aftershock Has Not
Been Canceled 3 Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All? 5 If
the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? 7 Still
Not Convinced This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake? 17 Don't Believe the
Stimulus Has to Eventually End? 25 Please Prepare Now 30 Chapter 2:
America's Bubble Economy Understanding How We Accurately Predicted the
Financial Crisis of 2008 Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions
Are Also Correct 33 Because Our Earlier Books Were Right, Now You Can Be
Right, Too 38 Didn't Other Bearish Analysts Get It Right, Too? 41 How the
"Experts" Got It So Wrong 43 Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry
Paulson--We Trust These Officials with Our Economy 48 Where We Have Been
Wrong 49 Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst Pop Go the Housing,
Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles 55 Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review
of America's Bubble Economy 56 From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward
Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward Spiral 62 Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
64 Pop Goes the Stock Market Bubble 70 Pop Goes the Private Debt Bubble 74
Pop Goes the Discretionary Spending Bubble 77 The Biggest, Baddest, Bad
Loan of Them All 80 Chapter 4: The Market Cliff Not Your Father's Down
Cycle 83 The Market Cliff Won't Be Just a "Down Cycle" 84 Hitting the
Market Cliff 89 The Last Resort: A Stock Market Holiday 93 When Is the Best
Time to Get Out of the Stock Market? 95 Chapter 5: Massive Money Printing
Will Eventually Cause Dangerous Inflation--So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?
97 What Is Inflation? 98 What Exactly Is Money Printing? 99 How Does Money
Printing Cause Inflation? 101 Central Banks Gone Wild: The World Is
Printing Money 103 Where Is Inflation Hiding? 107 The Arguments against
Future Inflation Simply Don't Hold Up 113 This Is Not a Plan--It's a Panic!
120 The Real Problem with Rising Future Inflation: High Interest Rates 121
The Fed's Big Blind Spot: They Don't Understand Where Growth Comes From
(Hint: It Doesn't Come from Rising Bubbles or Massive Money Printing to
Support the Bubbles) 125 When Will Inflation Begin? When Group Psychology
Turns Negative after the Market Cliff 129 The Inflation Deniers Are Liars!
133 Chapter 6: Phase 2: The Aftershock Pop Go the Dollar and Government
Debt Bubbles 137 The Dollar Bubble: Hard to See without Bubble?]Vision
Glasses 138 The Government Debt Bubble Pops 158 The Aftershock 165 The Six
Psychological Stages of Denial 166 Is There Any Scenario for a Soft
Landing? 170 Chapter 7: Global Mega-Money Meltdown It's Not Just America's
Bubble Economy--It's the World's Bubble Economy 173 The United States Will
Suffer the Least 174 Think of the World's Bubble Economy in Two Categories:
Manufacturing and Resource Extraction 175 How the Bursting Bubbles Will
Impact the World 179 If the World's Bubble Economy Is Hit Harder than the
U.S. Bubble Economy, Won't That Be Good for the Dollar? 188 If the Rest of
the World Is Collapsing, Won't That Be Good for Gold? 188 International
Investment Recommendations 190 Chapter 8: "You're No Fun" What I Hear
Traveling Across Our United States 193 By Aftershock Co-author Robert
Wiedemer Florida:"You're No Fun" 193 Philadelphia: Wharton Meets Wall
Street 197 Green Bay, Wisconsin: I Can Be a Cheerleader, Too--in the Right
Places 199 North Carolina: People Know in Their Gut that What I'm Saying
May Be Correct 201 New York City: The Turkeys Were Living the Good Life
Until ... 202 New York City Again: When You Abolish Failure, You
Institutionalize Stupidity 203 One Last New York Story: Is He Really Smart
or Really Stupid? 204 A State of Extreme Denial Exists in Parts of the
United States 205 What's the Smart Money Doing Now? Just What They Did
Before the 2008 Financial Crisis! Same Denial Now as Before 207 The Sun
Will Shine after Every Storm (From My Hotel Room in North Carolina) 209
Part II: Aftershock Dangers and Profits 213 Chapter 9: Covering Your Assets
How Not to Lose Money 215 The Three Rules for Not Losing Money 215 These
Rules Are Simple but Not Easy! 216 Long Term versus Short Term 218 Rule 1:
Exit Stocks Well Before the Market Cliff 221 Rule 2: Stay Away from Real
Estate Until after All the Bubbles Pop 228 Rule 3: Avoid Bonds and Most
Fixed?]Rate Investments as Interest Rates Rise 241 Where's the Best Place
to Stash Cash? 243 How Long Must We Follow These Three Rules? 243 Letting
Go Is Hard to Do 244 What Else Can I Do to Protect Myself? 247 Remember,
Your Net Worth Is Not Your Self?]Worth 249 Chapter 10: Cashing In on Chaos
Best Aftershock Investments 251 Plenty of Profit Opportunities, but They
Will Feel Quite Uncomfortable, Even Scary at Times 251 This Economy Is
Evolving; Your Investments Should Evolve, Too 252 Three Goals of an
Evolving Aftershock Investment Portfolio 254 Reducing Risk with a New Kind
of Diversification 256 Two Other Aftershock Investments after the Bubbles
Pop: Foreign Currencies and Foreign Bonds 272 Timing Is Everything before
the Bubbles Pop, but Your Timing Won't Be Perfect 274 Putting It All
Together 275 Chapter 11: Aftershock Jobs and Businesses 279 The Rising
Bubble Economy Created Huge Job Growth; Now the Falling Bubble Economy
Means Fewer Jobs 280 Conventional Wisdom about Future Job Growth Is Based
on Faith that the Future Will Be Like the Past 281 Why Conventional Wisdom
on Jobs Is Wrong 283 What's a Savvy Aftershock Job Seeker to Do? 284 The
Falling Bubbles Will Have Varying Impacts on Three Broad Economic Sectors
286 Should I Go to College? 296 Opportunities after the Bubbles Pop:
Cashing In on Distressed Assets 297 Dig Your Well before You Are Thirsty
298 Chapter 12: Understanding Our Problems Is the First Step Toward Solving
Our Problems 299 If You Don't Understand Why an Economy Grows, You Can't
Understand Why It Doesn't Grow 300 You Need to See the Big Picture before
You Start to Focus 301 Key Breakthroughs in the History of Economic Thought
302 Economics Needs a Breakthrough Big?]Picture Idea like Geology Needed
Continental Drift 309 So Why Aren't We Getting an Alfred Wegener wor a
Breakthrough Idea like Continental Drift? 311 Economists Have Become
Academia's Version of Financial Cheerleaders 311 The Demands to Get Tenure
and the Rewards of the Good Life after Tenure Have Delivered a One?]Two
Punch to Creative Economic Thought 312 Where to Now? Answer: Economics
Needs to Move from Being a Collection of Competing Philosophies to Being a
Unified Science 315 Four Key Elements for Making Economics More of a
Science 317 Where Do We Stand Today in Making This Transition? 321 The
Economics Profession Does Not Want to Make This Transition 322 The Solution
to the Lack of Interest in Making Important Changes in Economics: The
Coming Aftershock 324 Chapter 13: Our Predictions Have Mostly Been
Accurate, So Why Do Some People Still Dislike Them? 327 It's Not a
Cheerleading Book 329 It's Not a Complex Book (Although It Is Based on
Complex Analysis) 330 It's Not a Crazy Book 333 It's Not an Academic Book
333 It's Not Suggesting Armageddon 334 It's Not a Reality?]Denying Book 335
Us versus the Comforters: How Aftershock Stacks Up against Other Bearish
Books 335 Appendix: Are the Bond, Stock, and Gold Markets Manipulated? 343
Bond Market Manipulation 343 Stock Market Manipulation 344 Gold Market
Manipulation 351 Market Manipulation Summary 354 Investment Impact 355
Bibliography 357 Epilogue: Say Good-Bye to the Age of Excess 363 Index 367
Executive Summary xiii Acknowledgments xv Preface xvii Introduction: Your
Guide to the Fourth Edition of Aftershock xxi Part I: The Coming Aftershock
1 Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake Why the Aftershock Has Not
Been Canceled 3 Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All? 5 If
the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? 7 Still
Not Convinced This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake? 17 Don't Believe the
Stimulus Has to Eventually End? 25 Please Prepare Now 30 Chapter 2:
America's Bubble Economy Understanding How We Accurately Predicted the
Financial Crisis of 2008 Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions
Are Also Correct 33 Because Our Earlier Books Were Right, Now You Can Be
Right, Too 38 Didn't Other Bearish Analysts Get It Right, Too? 41 How the
"Experts" Got It So Wrong 43 Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry
Paulson--We Trust These Officials with Our Economy 48 Where We Have Been
Wrong 49 Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst Pop Go the Housing,
Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles 55 Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review
of America's Bubble Economy 56 From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward
Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward Spiral 62 Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
64 Pop Goes the Stock Market Bubble 70 Pop Goes the Private Debt Bubble 74
Pop Goes the Discretionary Spending Bubble 77 The Biggest, Baddest, Bad
Loan of Them All 80 Chapter 4: The Market Cliff Not Your Father's Down
Cycle 83 The Market Cliff Won't Be Just a "Down Cycle" 84 Hitting the
Market Cliff 89 The Last Resort: A Stock Market Holiday 93 When Is the Best
Time to Get Out of the Stock Market? 95 Chapter 5: Massive Money Printing
Will Eventually Cause Dangerous Inflation--So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?
97 What Is Inflation? 98 What Exactly Is Money Printing? 99 How Does Money
Printing Cause Inflation? 101 Central Banks Gone Wild: The World Is
Printing Money 103 Where Is Inflation Hiding? 107 The Arguments against
Future Inflation Simply Don't Hold Up 113 This Is Not a Plan--It's a Panic!
120 The Real Problem with Rising Future Inflation: High Interest Rates 121
The Fed's Big Blind Spot: They Don't Understand Where Growth Comes From
(Hint: It Doesn't Come from Rising Bubbles or Massive Money Printing to
Support the Bubbles) 125 When Will Inflation Begin? When Group Psychology
Turns Negative after the Market Cliff 129 The Inflation Deniers Are Liars!
133 Chapter 6: Phase 2: The Aftershock Pop Go the Dollar and Government
Debt Bubbles 137 The Dollar Bubble: Hard to See without Bubble?]Vision
Glasses 138 The Government Debt Bubble Pops 158 The Aftershock 165 The Six
Psychological Stages of Denial 166 Is There Any Scenario for a Soft
Landing? 170 Chapter 7: Global Mega-Money Meltdown It's Not Just America's
Bubble Economy--It's the World's Bubble Economy 173 The United States Will
Suffer the Least 174 Think of the World's Bubble Economy in Two Categories:
Manufacturing and Resource Extraction 175 How the Bursting Bubbles Will
Impact the World 179 If the World's Bubble Economy Is Hit Harder than the
U.S. Bubble Economy, Won't That Be Good for the Dollar? 188 If the Rest of
the World Is Collapsing, Won't That Be Good for Gold? 188 International
Investment Recommendations 190 Chapter 8: "You're No Fun" What I Hear
Traveling Across Our United States 193 By Aftershock Co-author Robert
Wiedemer Florida:"You're No Fun" 193 Philadelphia: Wharton Meets Wall
Street 197 Green Bay, Wisconsin: I Can Be a Cheerleader, Too--in the Right
Places 199 North Carolina: People Know in Their Gut that What I'm Saying
May Be Correct 201 New York City: The Turkeys Were Living the Good Life
Until ... 202 New York City Again: When You Abolish Failure, You
Institutionalize Stupidity 203 One Last New York Story: Is He Really Smart
or Really Stupid? 204 A State of Extreme Denial Exists in Parts of the
United States 205 What's the Smart Money Doing Now? Just What They Did
Before the 2008 Financial Crisis! Same Denial Now as Before 207 The Sun
Will Shine after Every Storm (From My Hotel Room in North Carolina) 209
Part II: Aftershock Dangers and Profits 213 Chapter 9: Covering Your Assets
How Not to Lose Money 215 The Three Rules for Not Losing Money 215 These
Rules Are Simple but Not Easy! 216 Long Term versus Short Term 218 Rule 1:
Exit Stocks Well Before the Market Cliff 221 Rule 2: Stay Away from Real
Estate Until after All the Bubbles Pop 228 Rule 3: Avoid Bonds and Most
Fixed?]Rate Investments as Interest Rates Rise 241 Where's the Best Place
to Stash Cash? 243 How Long Must We Follow These Three Rules? 243 Letting
Go Is Hard to Do 244 What Else Can I Do to Protect Myself? 247 Remember,
Your Net Worth Is Not Your Self?]Worth 249 Chapter 10: Cashing In on Chaos
Best Aftershock Investments 251 Plenty of Profit Opportunities, but They
Will Feel Quite Uncomfortable, Even Scary at Times 251 This Economy Is
Evolving; Your Investments Should Evolve, Too 252 Three Goals of an
Evolving Aftershock Investment Portfolio 254 Reducing Risk with a New Kind
of Diversification 256 Two Other Aftershock Investments after the Bubbles
Pop: Foreign Currencies and Foreign Bonds 272 Timing Is Everything before
the Bubbles Pop, but Your Timing Won't Be Perfect 274 Putting It All
Together 275 Chapter 11: Aftershock Jobs and Businesses 279 The Rising
Bubble Economy Created Huge Job Growth; Now the Falling Bubble Economy
Means Fewer Jobs 280 Conventional Wisdom about Future Job Growth Is Based
on Faith that the Future Will Be Like the Past 281 Why Conventional Wisdom
on Jobs Is Wrong 283 What's a Savvy Aftershock Job Seeker to Do? 284 The
Falling Bubbles Will Have Varying Impacts on Three Broad Economic Sectors
286 Should I Go to College? 296 Opportunities after the Bubbles Pop:
Cashing In on Distressed Assets 297 Dig Your Well before You Are Thirsty
298 Chapter 12: Understanding Our Problems Is the First Step Toward Solving
Our Problems 299 If You Don't Understand Why an Economy Grows, You Can't
Understand Why It Doesn't Grow 300 You Need to See the Big Picture before
You Start to Focus 301 Key Breakthroughs in the History of Economic Thought
302 Economics Needs a Breakthrough Big?]Picture Idea like Geology Needed
Continental Drift 309 So Why Aren't We Getting an Alfred Wegener wor a
Breakthrough Idea like Continental Drift? 311 Economists Have Become
Academia's Version of Financial Cheerleaders 311 The Demands to Get Tenure
and the Rewards of the Good Life after Tenure Have Delivered a One?]Two
Punch to Creative Economic Thought 312 Where to Now? Answer: Economics
Needs to Move from Being a Collection of Competing Philosophies to Being a
Unified Science 315 Four Key Elements for Making Economics More of a
Science 317 Where Do We Stand Today in Making This Transition? 321 The
Economics Profession Does Not Want to Make This Transition 322 The Solution
to the Lack of Interest in Making Important Changes in Economics: The
Coming Aftershock 324 Chapter 13: Our Predictions Have Mostly Been
Accurate, So Why Do Some People Still Dislike Them? 327 It's Not a
Cheerleading Book 329 It's Not a Complex Book (Although It Is Based on
Complex Analysis) 330 It's Not a Crazy Book 333 It's Not an Academic Book
333 It's Not Suggesting Armageddon 334 It's Not a Reality?]Denying Book 335
Us versus the Comforters: How Aftershock Stacks Up against Other Bearish
Books 335 Appendix: Are the Bond, Stock, and Gold Markets Manipulated? 343
Bond Market Manipulation 343 Stock Market Manipulation 344 Gold Market
Manipulation 351 Market Manipulation Summary 354 Investment Impact 355
Bibliography 357 Epilogue: Say Good-Bye to the Age of Excess 363 Index 367
Guide to the Fourth Edition of Aftershock xxi Part I: The Coming Aftershock
1 Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake Why the Aftershock Has Not
Been Canceled 3 Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All? 5 If
the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? 7 Still
Not Convinced This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake? 17 Don't Believe the
Stimulus Has to Eventually End? 25 Please Prepare Now 30 Chapter 2:
America's Bubble Economy Understanding How We Accurately Predicted the
Financial Crisis of 2008 Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions
Are Also Correct 33 Because Our Earlier Books Were Right, Now You Can Be
Right, Too 38 Didn't Other Bearish Analysts Get It Right, Too? 41 How the
"Experts" Got It So Wrong 43 Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry
Paulson--We Trust These Officials with Our Economy 48 Where We Have Been
Wrong 49 Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst Pop Go the Housing,
Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles 55 Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review
of America's Bubble Economy 56 From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward
Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward Spiral 62 Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
64 Pop Goes the Stock Market Bubble 70 Pop Goes the Private Debt Bubble 74
Pop Goes the Discretionary Spending Bubble 77 The Biggest, Baddest, Bad
Loan of Them All 80 Chapter 4: The Market Cliff Not Your Father's Down
Cycle 83 The Market Cliff Won't Be Just a "Down Cycle" 84 Hitting the
Market Cliff 89 The Last Resort: A Stock Market Holiday 93 When Is the Best
Time to Get Out of the Stock Market? 95 Chapter 5: Massive Money Printing
Will Eventually Cause Dangerous Inflation--So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?
97 What Is Inflation? 98 What Exactly Is Money Printing? 99 How Does Money
Printing Cause Inflation? 101 Central Banks Gone Wild: The World Is
Printing Money 103 Where Is Inflation Hiding? 107 The Arguments against
Future Inflation Simply Don't Hold Up 113 This Is Not a Plan--It's a Panic!
120 The Real Problem with Rising Future Inflation: High Interest Rates 121
The Fed's Big Blind Spot: They Don't Understand Where Growth Comes From
(Hint: It Doesn't Come from Rising Bubbles or Massive Money Printing to
Support the Bubbles) 125 When Will Inflation Begin? When Group Psychology
Turns Negative after the Market Cliff 129 The Inflation Deniers Are Liars!
133 Chapter 6: Phase 2: The Aftershock Pop Go the Dollar and Government
Debt Bubbles 137 The Dollar Bubble: Hard to See without Bubble?]Vision
Glasses 138 The Government Debt Bubble Pops 158 The Aftershock 165 The Six
Psychological Stages of Denial 166 Is There Any Scenario for a Soft
Landing? 170 Chapter 7: Global Mega-Money Meltdown It's Not Just America's
Bubble Economy--It's the World's Bubble Economy 173 The United States Will
Suffer the Least 174 Think of the World's Bubble Economy in Two Categories:
Manufacturing and Resource Extraction 175 How the Bursting Bubbles Will
Impact the World 179 If the World's Bubble Economy Is Hit Harder than the
U.S. Bubble Economy, Won't That Be Good for the Dollar? 188 If the Rest of
the World Is Collapsing, Won't That Be Good for Gold? 188 International
Investment Recommendations 190 Chapter 8: "You're No Fun" What I Hear
Traveling Across Our United States 193 By Aftershock Co-author Robert
Wiedemer Florida:"You're No Fun" 193 Philadelphia: Wharton Meets Wall
Street 197 Green Bay, Wisconsin: I Can Be a Cheerleader, Too--in the Right
Places 199 North Carolina: People Know in Their Gut that What I'm Saying
May Be Correct 201 New York City: The Turkeys Were Living the Good Life
Until ... 202 New York City Again: When You Abolish Failure, You
Institutionalize Stupidity 203 One Last New York Story: Is He Really Smart
or Really Stupid? 204 A State of Extreme Denial Exists in Parts of the
United States 205 What's the Smart Money Doing Now? Just What They Did
Before the 2008 Financial Crisis! Same Denial Now as Before 207 The Sun
Will Shine after Every Storm (From My Hotel Room in North Carolina) 209
Part II: Aftershock Dangers and Profits 213 Chapter 9: Covering Your Assets
How Not to Lose Money 215 The Three Rules for Not Losing Money 215 These
Rules Are Simple but Not Easy! 216 Long Term versus Short Term 218 Rule 1:
Exit Stocks Well Before the Market Cliff 221 Rule 2: Stay Away from Real
Estate Until after All the Bubbles Pop 228 Rule 3: Avoid Bonds and Most
Fixed?]Rate Investments as Interest Rates Rise 241 Where's the Best Place
to Stash Cash? 243 How Long Must We Follow These Three Rules? 243 Letting
Go Is Hard to Do 244 What Else Can I Do to Protect Myself? 247 Remember,
Your Net Worth Is Not Your Self?]Worth 249 Chapter 10: Cashing In on Chaos
Best Aftershock Investments 251 Plenty of Profit Opportunities, but They
Will Feel Quite Uncomfortable, Even Scary at Times 251 This Economy Is
Evolving; Your Investments Should Evolve, Too 252 Three Goals of an
Evolving Aftershock Investment Portfolio 254 Reducing Risk with a New Kind
of Diversification 256 Two Other Aftershock Investments after the Bubbles
Pop: Foreign Currencies and Foreign Bonds 272 Timing Is Everything before
the Bubbles Pop, but Your Timing Won't Be Perfect 274 Putting It All
Together 275 Chapter 11: Aftershock Jobs and Businesses 279 The Rising
Bubble Economy Created Huge Job Growth; Now the Falling Bubble Economy
Means Fewer Jobs 280 Conventional Wisdom about Future Job Growth Is Based
on Faith that the Future Will Be Like the Past 281 Why Conventional Wisdom
on Jobs Is Wrong 283 What's a Savvy Aftershock Job Seeker to Do? 284 The
Falling Bubbles Will Have Varying Impacts on Three Broad Economic Sectors
286 Should I Go to College? 296 Opportunities after the Bubbles Pop:
Cashing In on Distressed Assets 297 Dig Your Well before You Are Thirsty
298 Chapter 12: Understanding Our Problems Is the First Step Toward Solving
Our Problems 299 If You Don't Understand Why an Economy Grows, You Can't
Understand Why It Doesn't Grow 300 You Need to See the Big Picture before
You Start to Focus 301 Key Breakthroughs in the History of Economic Thought
302 Economics Needs a Breakthrough Big?]Picture Idea like Geology Needed
Continental Drift 309 So Why Aren't We Getting an Alfred Wegener wor a
Breakthrough Idea like Continental Drift? 311 Economists Have Become
Academia's Version of Financial Cheerleaders 311 The Demands to Get Tenure
and the Rewards of the Good Life after Tenure Have Delivered a One?]Two
Punch to Creative Economic Thought 312 Where to Now? Answer: Economics
Needs to Move from Being a Collection of Competing Philosophies to Being a
Unified Science 315 Four Key Elements for Making Economics More of a
Science 317 Where Do We Stand Today in Making This Transition? 321 The
Economics Profession Does Not Want to Make This Transition 322 The Solution
to the Lack of Interest in Making Important Changes in Economics: The
Coming Aftershock 324 Chapter 13: Our Predictions Have Mostly Been
Accurate, So Why Do Some People Still Dislike Them? 327 It's Not a
Cheerleading Book 329 It's Not a Complex Book (Although It Is Based on
Complex Analysis) 330 It's Not a Crazy Book 333 It's Not an Academic Book
333 It's Not Suggesting Armageddon 334 It's Not a Reality?]Denying Book 335
Us versus the Comforters: How Aftershock Stacks Up against Other Bearish
Books 335 Appendix: Are the Bond, Stock, and Gold Markets Manipulated? 343
Bond Market Manipulation 343 Stock Market Manipulation 344 Gold Market
Manipulation 351 Market Manipulation Summary 354 Investment Impact 355
Bibliography 357 Epilogue: Say Good-Bye to the Age of Excess 363 Index 367