The Great Reckoning Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression

by Davidson, James Dale

• ISBN13: 9780671885281
• ISBN10: 0671885286
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-10
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

In this book, Davidson and Rees-Mogg offer their predictions: the collapse of the welfare state worldwide; the Japanese stock, bond and real estate markets will continue their uncontrollable downward spiral, and Japanese banks will face enormous losses.

The revised edition of The Great Reckoning provides hundreds of investment tips and forecasts as well as fifteen ways to build a solid financial foundation.

Author Biography

James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit and publish Strategic Investment, one of the world's best-performing investment newsletters. They are coauthors of Blood in the Streets. Davidson is a principal of Strategic Advisors Corp. Lord Rees-Mogg is a financial advisor to some of the world's wealthiest investors. He was formerly editor of the Times of London and is vice-chairman of the BBC.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Postwar World	p. 11
The Megapolitics of Progress and Decline: Violence as a Catalyst and Consequence of Change	p. 51
The Information Revolution: The Megapolitics of the Future and the Constitutions of the Past	p. 83
America Follows in Britain's Footsteps	p. 107
Japan Follows in America's Footsteps	p. 134
The New Germany and Europe in the 1990s	p. 168
Latin America Takes Over Communism and Other Ironies of the End of the Cold War	p. 183
Muhammad Replaces Marx: The New North-South Division of World Politics	p. 213
Linear Expectations in a Nonlinear World: How the Telescope Led Us to Compute; How the Computer Can Help Us to See	p. 245
The Remaking of the Cosmopolitan Mind	p. 261
Drugs, Delusions, and the Imperial Culture of the Slums	p. 291
Deflation Ahead: Financial Fallout in the Atomic Age	p. 338
Clues from the Past: A Prologue to Depression	p. 366
When the Music Stops: Why the Welfare State Could Collapse in the 1990s	p. 384
The Escape from High Costs: The Private Economy in the Slump of the 1990s	p. 438
Rational Living in an Age of Crisis	p. 486
Afterwood: The Recovery	p. 525
Appendices
Techniques for Hedging Against Economic Crisis	p. 533
Troubled Banks	p. 539
Sound Banks	p. 543
Areas of Opportunity	p. 548
Purchasing Distressed Properties	p. 554
Physical Protection	p. 558
Action for Political Reform	p. 559
Strategic Investment and Other Services from James Dale Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg	p. 560
Notes on Sources	p. 562
Index	p. 584
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