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An engaging and practical romp through contemporary financial and economic history—and what it means for your financial future
Economic booms and busts are happening with more frequency. Since the turn of the new millennium, fortunes have been made and lost at a blistering pace. Each boom is like the tension building up before an earthquake. Seismologists can detect the build-up, but they can't necessarily explain why—or when—the next quake will hit. Economic busts can be equally devastating…and followed by numerous aftershocks.
In this entertaining romp through recent economic and financial history, best-selling author, Addison Wiggin, traces the primary trends that have led up to rapid economic growth and innovation while keeping an eye on the inevitable downturn. The author practices "literary economics," telling stories about the characters behind the scenes and their motives, making this wide-ranging book easy-to-read. The current edition has been revised, adapted, and re-imagined, enlightening readers about what's happening behind today's top headlines:
Ultimately, the book helps place current events in the context of identifiable historical trends. The book proposes that when you understand what the primary trends are and follow them to their logical conclusion, it makes planning for your financial future much easier.
What will be the role of the US economy in the future as policy makers try to grapple with new competition, economic and political, from Brazil, Russia, India, China - the so-called BRICs? The author follows the facts, the trends, and the stories that make up history and parlays them into forecasts for what he sees coming next. Ultimately, you'll get a review of previous trades and a new Trade of the Decade.
Enjoy.
Dedication
Foreword from Jim Rogers—appendix
New Foreword from George Gilder
Old preface—appendix by Bill Bonner
Introduction: Hell in a Bucket
Part One: Wildness Lies in Wait
Chapter 1: The Old “New Economy”
Chapter 2: Homo Digitalis, or If You Know, You Know
Chapter 3: Dreamers and Schemers
Part Two: The Fabulous Destiny of Alan Greenspan
Chapter 4: In the Bath Blowing Bubbles
Chapter 5: “Free Money” and Other New Era Hallucinations
Chapter 6: A Theory of Moral Hazards
Chapter 7: First It Giveth…
Part Three: Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Chapter 8: John Law and the Origins of a Bad Idea
Chapter 9: The Digital Age of Crowds
Chapter 10: The Crack-Up Boom
Chapter 11: The Party at the End of the World
Notes
Index
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