Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, 4th Edition

Index

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• Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)
• Africa, resource extraction in
• Aftershock (Reich)
• Aftershock (Wiedemer, Wiedemer, & Spitzer)
• Aftershock
  • Aftershock
  • denial, six psychological stages of
    • Stage 1: Denial
    • Stage 2: Market Cycles
    • Stage 3: Fantasized Great Depression
    • Stage 4: Back to Basics
    • Stage 5: Imagined Armageddon
    • Stage 6: Revolutionary Action
  • dollar bubble
    • falling demand for dollar
    • falling stocks, real estate, credit, and spending
    • foreign investors
    • status as reserve currency
    • value of dollar during worldwide recession
  • government debt bubble, popping of
• The Aftershock Investor (Wiedemer, Wiedemer, & Spitzer)
• Age of Excess, end of
• Agricultural commodities
• AIG
• Alternative A-paper (Alt-A)
• America's Bubble Economy (Wiedemer, Wiedemer, & Spitzer)
  • quotes from
    • on private credit
    • on real estate
    • on stock market
• America's bubble economy, accurate predictions on
  • bearish financial analysis
  • Bernanke/Paulson predictions
  • financial “experts,” incorrect predictions by
    • from BusinessWeek (January 12, 2009)
    • from New York magazine (2008)
  • multibubble pop
  • wrong predictions
    • timing
    • triggering events
• Animal spirits, definition of
• Annual deficit
• Argentina, money printing in
• Assets, protecting
  • cash, investing
  • credit card debt
  • employment
  • investments, exiting
  • loans
  • long term vs. short term
  • reduced spending
  • retirement
  • rules for
    • avoiding bonds and most fixed-rate investments
    • avoiding real estate until all bubbles pop
    • exiting stocks before the Market Cliff
  • student loans
• Australia, ...