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The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide | Comeback America | Crash Proof 2.0 | New Empire of Debt | A Gift to My Children | End the Fed | Emergency | Bull Moves in Bear Markets | Lifeboat Strategy | Fiscal Hangover
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The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide

Sean Brodrick

An innovative crisis protection guide from the experts at Weiss Research.

If you want to continue your lifestyle AND make smart money moves, then The Ultimate Survivalist Guide is the book for you. Saving money and profiting means understanding the many aspects of life where problems can strike, and this book will be your guide. In the face of disaster it is better to plan than panic. A bulletproof plan will protect you from the disastrous surprise of a mishap-from shakeups in the stock market to the next oil crisis to fires and floods.
Author Sean Brodrick of Weiss Research reveals the simple things you can do that will help you prepare and profit in this changing economic landscape. The Ultimate Survivalist Guide is your tool to understanding a myriad of key concepts.

• Offers practical advice for overcoming some of the worst possible disasters
• Contains in-depth information on protecting yourself, your family, and your assets from uncontrollable events
• Details money saving strategies that will help you get through the difficult times

The time to plan for any crisis is before it happens. The Ultimate Survivalist Guide is filled with the tips and tools you’ll need to survive potential disasters and save money during tough times.

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Comeback America

David Walker

He’s one of America’s most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.

As comptroller general of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—”the nation’s top auditor”—Walker warned Congress and the administration as the federal surplus became a giant deficit under George W. Bush. As president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he now works full-time to raise public awareness regarding mounting debt burdens being imposed on future generations. Comeback America is his crucial manifesto, a way for President Obama to end out-of-control government spending and reform our tax, retirement, health care, defense, and other systems—before it’s too late.

Walker believes that by 2030, absent significant reforms to current government programs and policies, federal taxes could double from current levels, meaning less money and poorer education for kids—which will hurt families along with our nation’s economic strength and position in the world. If our foreign creditors—such as China—decide to buy fewer of our Treasury bonds, interest rates will rise and cars and homes will become less affordable.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Comeback America shows how we can return to our founding principles of fiscal responsibility and stewardship for future generations. The book includes bold ideas to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter Medicare, and simplify the tax code—all taking into account the Obama Administration’s current efforts, which receive never-before-published assessments both complimentary and critical.

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Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

Peter Schiff

A fully updated follow-up to Peter Schiff’s bestselling financial survival guide-Crash Proof, which described the U.S. economy as a house of cards on the verge of collapse. The economic and monetary disaster which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff predicted is no longer hypothetical-it is here today. And nobody understands what to do in this situation better than the man who saw it coming. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt; too little savings; and a declining dollar.

Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition-a bestselling book that predicted the current market mayhem-left off. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with the insights and information to navigate the dangerous terrain. Throughout the book, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability and offers a specific three step plan to battle the current economic downturn.

• Discusses the measures you can take to protect yourself-as well as profit-during these difficult times
• Offers an insightful examination of the structural weaknesses underlying the economic meltdown
• Outlines a plan that will allow you to preserve wealth and protect the purchasing power of your savings

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Crash Proof 2.0 will help you survive and thrive during the coming years of economic uncertainty…[Google Preview]

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New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble

William Bonner

An updated look at the United States’ precarious position given the recent financial turmoil. In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire.

Throughout the book, the authors offer an updated look at the United States’ precarious position given the recent financial turmoil, and discuss how government control of the economy and financial system-combined with unfettered deficit spending and gluttonous consumption-has ravaged the business environment, devastated consumer confidence, and pushed the global economy to the brink. Along the way, Bonner and Wiggin cast a wide angle lens that looks back in history and ahead to the coming century: showing how dramatic changes in the economic power of the United States will inevitably impact every American…[Google Preview]

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A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Jim Rogers

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities, and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children, Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candor and confidence, but this time he adds paternal compassion, protectiveness, and love. Rogers reveals how to learn from his triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous, well-lived life. For example:

• Trust your own judgment: Rogers sensed China’s true potential way back in the 1980s, at a time when most analysts were highly skeptical of its prospects for growth.




• Focus on what you like: Rogers was five when he started collecting empty bottles at baseball games instead of playing.
• Be persistent: Coming to Yale from rural Alabama, and in over his head, Rogers never stopped studying and wound up with a scholarship to Oxford.
• See the world: In 1990, Rogers traveled through six continents by motorcycle, gaining a global perspective and learning how to evaluate prospects in rapidly developing countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
• Nothing is really new: anything deemed “innovative” or “unprecedented” is usually just overhyped, as in the case of the Internet or TV, airplanes, and railroads before it
• And not a bit off the subject, and very important: Boys will need you more than you’ll need them!

Wise and warm, accessible and inspiring, A Gift to My Children is a great gift for all those just starting to invest in their futures…[Google Preview]

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End the Fed

Ron Paul

In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.

Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country’s economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don’t realize is that the Fed — created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia — is actually working against their own personal interests. Congressman Paul’s urgent appeal to all citizens and officials tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America’s economic policy for future generations…[Google Preview unavailable, but take a look at the Author’s Video Review (IE8) ]

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Neil Strauss

What can you do if it all hits the fan?
You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system.

After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of tsunamis and hurricanes-and now of world financial meltdown-Strauss, like most of his generation, came to the sobering realization that, even in America, anything can happen. But rather than watch helplessly, he decided to do something about it. And so he spent three years traveling through a country that’s lost its sense of safety, equipping himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future.

Emergency traces Neil’s white-knuckled journey through today’s heart of darkness, as he sets out to move his life offshore, test his skills in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It’s a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdos, heroes, and ordinary citizens going off the grid.

It’s one man’s story of a dangerous world-and how to stay alive in it. Before the next disaster strikes, you’re going to want to read this book. And you’ll want to do everything it suggests. Because tomorrow doesn’t come with a guarantee…[Google Preview unavailable]

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The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down

Peter Schiff

In the wake of declining stock prices, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and a weakening dollar, the American economy is poised for a prolonged contraction and U.S. stocks will suffer a protracted bear market, so says seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff. Having accurately predicted the current market turmoil in his recent bestseller Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, the CNBC-dubbed “Doctor Doom” has helped savvy investors protect their portfolios in some very turbulent markets–and now, he’ll show you how to do the same.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets reveals how you should protect your assets and invest your money when the American economy is experiencing perilous economic downturns and wealth building is happening elsewhere. Filled with insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and pre-scriptive advice, this book shows you how to make money under adverse market conditions by using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy.

In detailing lessons learned from the 1930s and 1970s–and from the ways people invested when other economies experienced high inflation, collapsed markets, and rising interest rates coupled with declining currencies–The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets shows you how to successfully implement various bull moves so that you can preserve, and even enhance, your wealth within a prosperous or an ailing domestic economy…[Google Preview]

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The Lifeboat Strategy: Legally Protecting Wealth and Privacy in the 21st Century

Mark Nestmann

In 2004, more than 9 million Americans had their identity stolen and approximately 1.8 million were sued.

And laws like the USA PATRIOT Act greatly expand warrantless searches and permit government property seizures without proof of wrongdoing. Big Business and Big Brother want to keep you and your wealth in plain sight, to be profitably tracked and conveniently seized.

The Lifeboat Strategy documents today’s unprecedented threats to wealth and privacy and reveals hundreds of completely legal strategies to deal with them. It focuses on creating domestic and international “lifeboats” of wealth and privacy to provide refuge in times of crisis.

Here’s a small sample of the valuable information this newly-updated (April 2005) book offers:

• 13 types of public records—available to anyone—that can be used to steal your identity
• Five ways businesses and the government use “data mining” to learn about your interests, sources of in-come and lifestyle
• The 10 most important electronic eavesdropping threats
• Your telephone dialing records have almost zero legal protection
• The giant vulnerability in “caller ID”
• Do you fit the definition of a “terrorist?” If you are a member of any of these organizations, you may.
• Tax avoidance vs. tax evasion—how to tell the difference
• Six ways government agencies can seize property, without convicting you of a crime
• If you fit any of these 40 “profiles,” your assets can be seized
• Are you a “racketeer?” If you’ve ever made this simple mistake, you probably are
• How withdrawing lawfully-earned, tax-paid cash from your own bank account can land you in jail
• Emergency powers that permit the government to freeze assets, close securities markets and more

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Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit From The New Global Economy (Agora Series)

Keith Fitz-Gerald

With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it’s never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the “new rules.” Fact is, Fiscal Hangover, will give you an investing blueprint that will allow you to profit from the changing global economy.

For the first time in 200 years, American consumers are stepping down from their position as the driving force behind the world’s economy. In Fiscal Hangover, Keith Fitz-Gerald analyzes the declining power of the American consumer and introduces you to the resulting investment opportunities. Without question, the American consumer and the United States government have provided the rest of the world with liquidity in the form of cheap capital and abundant debt. But in light of recent economic events, the rules of the game have changed and that means you must change with them-if you intend on securing your financial future.

Unlike most of today’s finance books that simply examine the end of the American Empire, Fiscal Hangover shows you how to prepare for the fall, effectively allocate your investments, and thrive in the new global economy. This book offers specific analysis and concrete actionable steps for individual investors interested in grabbing their fair share of what will be the greatest wealth creation in the history of mankind…[Google Preview]

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