The Day After the Dollar Crashes A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order

by Vickers, Damon

• ISBN13: 9780470910337
• ISBN10: 047091033X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

How to profit from the events leading up to the likely collapse of the U.S. dollarSociety is at a crossroads. Here at home and around the world, we are living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable. The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order outlines the kinds of events that could trigger a global economic collapse, describing in detail the events that are likely to occur just prior to, during, and immediately following such a total collapse. It also explains how investors can profit and support a sustainable future by anticipating social trends. The book Describes what government can do now to soften the dollar's fall later Details how to lead the charge to introduce innovations and solutions to meet the inevitable challenges of new kinds of economic forces Reveals how to profit by changing expectations and taking action to align investments with realityThe Day After the Dollar Crashes tears away the illusions generated by politicians, media, and the financial industry to show how investors can position themselves to survive and thrive in a New World Order.

Author Biography

Damon Vickers Chief Investment Officer of Damon Vickers & Co., an investment firm located in Seattle, Washington. In the 1990s, Vickers and his customers were early investors in such companies as Starbucks Coffee, Cisco Systems, and Amazon.com, to name a few. Mr. Vickers called the top of the equities markets in 2000, and in 2008, during the worst market year since 1987, a private fund initially capitalized by Mr. Vickers enjoyed returns of 63%. A frequent guest on financial television such as Glenn Beck, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, and BNN in Canada, Mr. Vickers has also been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other widely read publications.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
We Are in Deep Trouble and We're Not Alone	p. 1
Today's Reality	p. 1
We Are Not a Going Concern	p. 3
We Are a Society Dependent on Entitlements	p. 5
Our Aging Population Is Expensive	p. 8
We Are Digging a Hole to China with Unfunded Debt	p. 12
We Export Our Consumer-Oriented Lifestyle to the Rest of the World	p. 14
We Cannot Compete Globally Due to the Disparity in Wages	p. 15
We Have Used Up Our Grace Period	p. 19
We Produce Food That Impairs Our Health and Depletes Our Treasury	p. 21
We Are What We Eat, Breathe, and Drink-and It Is Costing Us a Fortune	p. 23
We Are Jeopardizing Our Life Support Systems	p. 24
Glenn Beck and Me, Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution	p. 27
We Can Be an Ostrich or a Hero	p. 31
We Need to End Our Dependent Lifestyle	p. 33
We Need to End Our Dependence on Our Addictions	p. 34
We Need to End Our Dependency on Our Credit Cards	p. 37
We Need to End Our Dependence on Unsustainable Entitlements	p. 39
We Need to Stop Depending on the Government to Tell Us What Is Healthy	p. 42
We Need to End Our Dependence on Imported Energy and Fuels	p. 43
We Need to Reduce Our Dependent Prison Populations	p. 44
The Truth and Spin about the Pending Economic Meltdown	p. 47
Why No One Wants to Talk About Why Our Deficit Cannot Be Repaid	p. 48
The Truth about Tariffs and Jobs	p. 52
Big Corporations Spin the Truth and Play Down the Problems They Cause	p. 55
The American Dream Has Turned Nightmarish	p. 58
Citizens of Other Countries Condemn Americans	p. 59
What Religious Leaders Say about the Pending Economic Meltdown	p. 60
What People Fear about the New World Order	p. 61
Entropy Is Linear and Irrevocable	p. 63
People Are Fearful When Their Beliefs Are Threatened	p. 64
Governments Believe They're Too Big to Fail	p. 66
Don't Worry, Be Happy	p. 68
The Grab for Dollars from the Taxpayer's Pocket	p. 69
A Fearful Government Nationalizes Industries	p. 72
Resistance to Change Is the First Response	p. 74
How We Can Build and Prepare for the New World Order	p. 77
Who Is in Charge of Our Money?	p. 78
Rethink the Importance of the Dollar	p. 79
Do a Cost Analysis of Our Diminishing Returns	p. 80
We Broke It and We Need to Fix It	p. 82
Governments Must Return to What Works	p. 83
Governments Must Support Innovation, Not Save Dying Industries	p. 85
Vote on Character, Not by Party	p. 86
We Need to Learn to Feed Ourselves	p. 87
We Need to Reduce Our Sprawl	p. 88
Where are the Bees?	p. 89
We Can Move Mountains	p. 89
Your Conscious Shift to Oneness	p. 90
Think Globally and Act Locally	p. 92
Be a Leader and Turn the Herd	p. 94
Take It to the Street	p. 94
What to Expect the Day the Dollar Crashes ... and Beyond	p. 97
A Country Is Like a Business	p. 98
The Day the U.S. Dollar Crashes	p. 99
New Game, New Rules	p. 105
Could the U.S. Dollar Continue as the Reserve Currency?	p. 108
What Can an Investor Do to Prepare for This Crash?	p. 110
What Happens After the Day the Dollar Crashes?	p. 114
Could the Next Bear Market Be Just Around the Corner?	p. 116
How Bad Can the Next Bear Market Get?	p. 118
Shaping the New World Government Order	p. 119
We Need to Limit the Growth of Governments	p. 120
Individual Nationalism versus Global Citizenship	p. 122
Maintaining National Identities within Global Citizenship	p. 123
Protecting Cultures from Friendly Fire	p. 125
Establishing Sustainable and Equitable Resource Management	p. 127
We Can Expect a New Form of Exchange	p. 129
The Double-Edged Sword of Debt and Unsustainable Promises	p. 130
A Centralized Governing Body Could Coordinate Emergency Response	p. 132
Shaping the New World Social Order	p. 135
Where Will Our New Leaders Come From?	p. 138
The Global Communication Evolution	p. 139
Flash Mobbing-A Social Networking Phenomenon	p. 141
Ending Our Addiction to Stimulation	p. 142
We Aren't as Smart as We Think We Are	p. 142
The Role of Religion in Our Transformation to a New World Order	p. 144
Connecting as One	p. 145
Consumers Will Decide How the Future Will Look	p. 149
Consumers Will Drive the Next Big Thing	p. 150
Focus on Creating Health and Alternative Treatments	p. 152
Reduce Dependence on Drugs	p. 153
Being Accountable for Our Well-Being or Opening Pandora's Box?	p. 154
Protect Our Water and Fishing Industries	p. 155
The Health Care Industry Is Due for an Overhaul	p. 156
Overmedicating, Over-Testing, and Overcharging	p. 157
The Basis of Geriatric Care Is Kindness	p. 159
Help Shape the Government's Mandated Medical Program	p. 160
Stand Up, Make Noise, and Demand a Transparent Public Process	p. 161
Purge Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Toxins from Our Food	p. 161
Purge Hormones and BPA from Our Food	p. 162
Purge Sugars and Additives from Our Food	p. 163
Kill Factory Farming	p. 164
Refuse Genetically Altered Foods	p. 165
Demand Changes to Fast Food	p. 165
Create and Profit from the Next Big Thing	p. 167
Globally Sustainable Investing for Long-Term Profits	p. 168
Socially Responsible Investing	p. 168
The Positive and Negative Sides of Social Networking and Technology	p. 169
Invest in Technologies That Expand Our Sustainable Energy Sources	p. 170
Changes in the Auto and Transportation Industry	p. 171
Weaning Ourselves Off Oil	p. 172
The Insidious Petrochemical Industry	p. 173
The Wonderful World of Recycling, Reusing, and Repurposing	p. 173
Our Costly Packaging Industry	p. 176
Stop Natural Gas Companies from Destroying Our Aquifers	p. 176
Mothball Some of Our Drug Companies	p. 177
Putting Your Plan into Action	p. 177
We Are the Change We Want to See	p. 178
About the Author	p. 181
Index	p. 183
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