Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends
Praise for Profiting From the World's Economic Crisis\ "Someone is going to make money in the next decade. Perhaps Bud will help you find your way."\ —Jim Rogers, cofounder, Quantum Fund; author, A Gift to My Children\ "Where everyone today has an opinion on everything, much of it gleaned from a blog, Bud Conrad's constant mantra is 'What does the data say?' And then he rolls up his sleeves and works almost around the clock for as many days as it takes to get to a defensible answer. In other...
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In Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis, author Bud Conrad, Chief Economist for Casey Research, predicts a rough road ahead for us—due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past decade—but reveals how you can prosper during these difficult times by tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities that match those trends.With this book, Conrad outlines the long-term direction of our economy as driven by increasing U.S. government and trade deficits, oil prices, Social Security and Medicare obligations for baby boomers, the credit crisis, and the weakening dollar. He also examines why some of the government's actions—such as bailing out banks and curbing interest rates—fail to address more serious, long-term issues such as too much debt.The crisis we have entered is not a typical business recession, but, instead, a major deleveraging which is the biggest shift since the Great Depression. The stagflation of the U.S. economy will present great challenges on a global scale. And since no market travels in a straight line, you need to be positioned correctly, with the right investments, to protect yourself and profit from the twists and turns you'll inevitably face in today's turbulent economic environment.Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis deftly addresses how to gain your financial footing during these difficult times by highlighting global investment opportunities—such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities—that are likely to help you profit in the coming years.
Ch. 1 The budget deficit drives the growth of all debt 3Ch. 2 The trade deficit and U.S. dependency on foreign investments 27Ch. 3 The big costs of health care, social security, and the military 63Ch. 4 The Federal Reserve prints our money (stop the presses!) 77Ch. 5 The importance of debt for predicting our economy 115Ch. 6 The big-picture model of our economy 139Ch. 7 What can the 1929 Great Depression teach us about today's crisis? 159Ch. 8 What the United States can learn from Japan's lost decade(s) : 1989-2009 183Ch. 9 What the United States can learn from German and other European hyperinflations, and from China today 211Ch. 10 The stock market may be dead for another decade 229Ch. 11 Energy in the 21st century : the end of the petroleum age 241Ch. 12 Food, grain trading 261Ch. 13 The demise of the dollar 273Ch. 14 Interest rates : the trade of the decade 299Ch. 15 Gold is the only real money 325Ch. 16 Forecast for the future 369Ch. 17 Looking over the horizon to see the best investments 385List of tables and figures 421About the author 429Index 431
