Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter D. Schiff, John Downes
Publisher: Wiley
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Pages: 288
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ISBN: 0470043601
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.60973
EAN: 9780470043608
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Publication Date: February 26, 2007
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The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing.
Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.
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 Gloomy forecaster offers a bright economic alterative August 15, 2008
Contrarian investor Peter D. Schiff isn't just a bear. He's a sky-is-falling, bury-the-Krugerrands-in-the-backyard bear. Writing with John Downes, Schiff argues that the U.S. economy is going to hell, and that clueless consumers, opportunistic Wall Streeters and pandering politicians are carrying the handbasket. Schiff's screeching tone is a bit grating - until you realize that many of his predictions have proven accurate. That doesn't mean you shouldn't take him with a grain of salt, but this book was published in 2007, and in mid-2008, Schiff's forecasts of a weakening dollar, rising gold prices, a bursting real-estate bubble and strong foreign stock markets were spot-on. His pessimistic polemic could use more practical advice and less macroeconomic analysis, but still getAbstract recommends it to those who seek an alternative viewpoint.
Dr. Truth! August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Peter is easily one of the best forecasters of his generation. His honest approach to the current economic demise that we are facing is a breath of fresh air. Schiff, unlike most of his peers, is not a pom-pom waving cheerleader - he tells it like it is...and he's been almost bang on 100% right.
The book is a must have for all who are looking for ways to protect their wealth in these uncertain times.
Excellent - must read for every American August 10, 2008
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This book is a fantastic crash course on economics. The information on the Federal Reserve is eye-opening. This is one of the best purchases I have ever made on a book. I highly recommend it to everyone. It is an easy, quick read, full of valuable information for anyone who has or plans to have investments.
Read it, Love it, Live it August 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rare five star rating.
This book is your action plan, your calling to protect your assets in the coming years. Peter Schiff was laughed at on CNBC for a long time. Now with Bear Stearns, Freddie, Fannie all dead and dying, people are starting to listen.
Washington DC is broken, and no matter which idiot senator is elected this Fall, our troubles will not be over.
For those who seem to be miffed that he mentions his brokerage so much, get over it. Sign up for his newsletter and you can take whatever recommendations Peter has to your own broker. The key is to reduce your position in dollar dominated assets...now! Protect your wealth from the most egregious tax of all: inflation...and the devaluation of the US dollar.
You can't say you weren't warned.
Finally a person who makes unlike Paulson and the Fed July 30, 2008
Warning, a quote from the book. (Page 87)
Business Cycles
According to the classical economists, like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. von Hayek of the Austrian school, recessions should not be resisted but embraced. Not that recessions are any fun, but they are necessary to correct conditions caused by the real problem, which is the artificial boom that precede them. Such booms, created by greed, others by inflation, send false signals to the capital markets that there are additional savings in the economy to support higher levels of investment. Ultimately, when the mistakes are revealed, the malinvestments, as Mises called them, are liquidated, creating the bust. Legitimate economic expansions, financed by actual savings, do not need busts. It is only the greed and inflation-induced varieties that sow the seeds of their own destruction.
This flies into the face of modern economic thinking that regards the business cycle as the inevitable result of some flaw in the capitalist system and sees the government's role as mitigating or preventing recessions. Nothing could be further from the truth. Boom/Bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.
The Modern Federal Reserve: An Engine Of Inflation And A Creator Of Booms And Busts
The Federal Reserve turned the concept of the elastic money supply on its head by expanding the money supply indefinately. When the economy expands, the Fed expands the money supply, and then when the economy contracts, it expands the money supply even faster, in an effort to stimulate spending to offset those contractions. It's like a heroin addict trying to kick the habit who shoots up each time any withdrawal symptoms set in. It is a painless way to go, but one unlikely to produce a healthy outcome.
So the Federal reserve ultimately became nothing more than an engine of perpetual inflation, the precise opposite of what it was originally intended to be. Today the money supply is anything but elastic, as it always expands and never contracts. Had such a harebrained scheme been proposed at its inception when the Fed was created in 1913, the concept of the Fed never would have seen the light of day and its proponents would have been laughed out of Washignton.
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