Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments ix

Preface to the Second Edition of Aftershock xi

Introduction Your Guide to the Second Edition of Aftershock xv

PART I First the Bubblequake, Next the Aftershock 1

Chapter 1 America's Bubble Economy 3
Understanding How We Predicted the Bubblequake Four Years Ago Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions Are Correct

Chapter 2 Phase I: The Bubblequake 27
Pop Go the Housing, Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles

Chapter 3 The Medicine Becomes Poison: Dangerous Inflation Ahead 61

Chapter 4 Phase II: The Aftershock 93
Pop Go the Dollar and Government Debt Bubbles

Chapter 5 Global Mega-Money Meltdown 131
It's not Just America's Bubble Economy, It's the World's Bubble Economy

PART II Aftershock Dangers and Profits 151

Chapter 6 Covering Your Assets 153
How Not to Lose Money

Chapter 7 Cashing in on Chaos 187
Best Aftershock Investments

Chapter 8 Aftershock Jobs and Businesses 217
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Chapter 9 Understanding Our Problems Is the First Step Toward Solving Our Problems 231

Chapter 10 Our Predictions Have Been Accurate, So Why Do Some People Still Dislike Them? 257

Epilogue Say Good-Bye to the Age of Excess 275

Appendix Are the Stock and Gold Markets Manipulated? 279
Potential Stock Market Manipulation by the Federal Reserve

Bibliography 291

Index 295