The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- David Wiedemer -- Robert Wiedemer -- Cindy Spitzer -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake -- Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All? -- If the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? -- Still Not Sure This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake? -- Don't Believe the Stimulus Has to Eventually End? There Is a Limit to What the Government Can Do -- Wondering Why the Aftershock Hasn't Happened Already? "Animal Spirits" Are Keeping Us Going -- Please Prepare Now -- Part I: Aftershock -- Chapter 2: Bubblequake and Aftershock-A Quick Review of How We Got Here and What's Next -- Not Asleep with the Sheep -- Bubblequake! First, a Rising Bubble Economy -- Now, a Falling Bubble Economy -- What Is a Bubble? -- How to Spot a Bubble -- America's Bubble Economy -- The Real Estate Bubble -- The Stock Market Bubble -- The Private Debt Bubble -- The Consumer Discretionary Spending Bubble -- The Dollar Bubble -- Future Inflation Will Cause Rising Interest Rates -- The Government Debt Bubble -- From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward Spiral -- First, the Bubblequake -- Next, the Aftershock -- It's Not Just America's Bubble Economy-The World Has a Bubble Economy, Too -- Why Don't We Have the Aftershock Right Now? Two Temporary "Airbags" Are Supporting the Other Partially Popped Bubbles -- Rising Future Inflation Is Key -- Why Don't Most Conventional Investors See This Coming? -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- Chapter 3: The Market Cliff -- The Market Cliff Won't Be Just a "Down Cycle" -- Hitting the Market Cliff -- The Last Resort: A Stock Market Holiday -- When Is the Best Time to Get Out of the Stock Market?.

Chapter 4: Massive Money Printing Will Eventually Cause Dangerous Inflation-So Why Hasn't It Happened Yet? -- What Is Inflation? -- What Exactly Is Money Printing? -- How Does Money Printing Cause Inflation? -- Central Banks Gone Wild: The World Is Printing Money -- Where Is Inflation Hiding? -- 1. "Lag Factors" Delay the Onset of Inflation -- 2. Government Statistics Underreport Inflation -- 3. Strong Motivation to Maintain the Bubble Economy Will Delay Most Inflation Until after the Market Cliff -- The Arguments against Future Inflation Simply Don't Hold Up -- This Is Not a Plan, It's a Panic! -- The Real Problem with Rising Future Inflation: High Interest Rates -- The Fed's Big Blind Spot: They Don't Understand Where Growth Comes From(Hint: It Doesn't Come from Rising Bubbles or Massive Money Printing) -- When Will Inflation Begin? When Group Psychology Turns Negative after the Market Cliff -- The Inflation Deniers Are Liars! -- Chapter 5: Why Conventional Wisdom Won't Work This Time -- The Key to Conventional Wisdom: The Future Will Be Just Like the Past -- Warren Buffett: Master of Conventional Wisdom -- Another Example of Conventional Wisdom Put to the Test: Hedge Funds -- The Key to Aftershock Wisdom Investing: The Future Is Not the Past! -- Why Don't More People See This? -- CW Professionals Have to Be Cheerleaders-But You Don't -- What if We Are Wrong and the Past 10 Years Were Like the 1970s and Maybe the Next Big Stock Boom Is Right Around the Corner? -- It's Time to Leave CW Behind and Create an Actively Managed Aftershock Portfolio -- Part II: Aftershock Investing -- Chapter 6: Taking Stock of Stocks -- Stocks: A Love Story -- How Stocks Became the Heart of Most Investment Portfolios -- Like Throwing Darts: It Used to Be Easy to Pick Winning Stocks -- In Theory, When You Buy Stocks You Are Buying Future Earnings.

Price-to-Earnings Ratio -- More Ways to Value Stocks -- Conventional Wisdom on Stocks -- CW Stock Cheerleading Is Based More on Salesmanship than Rigorous Analysis -- CW Analysis Makes Key Assumptions -- Why Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong Now -- Normal Valuation Methods Are Being Replaced by Bubble Valuation -- Stocks Will Fall in Four Stages -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- The Case for Active Management -- Chapter 7: Bye-Bye Bonds -- How Do Bonds Make Money? "Total Return" Is the Key -- Your Bond's Total Return Is Always Changing -- Higher Risk, Higher Yields -- Conventional Wisdom on Bonds: The Safety of the Recent Past Means We Can Count on More Safety Ahead -- Why Conventional Wisdom on Bonds Is Wrong Now -- Wrong CW Assumption 1: The Last Few Decades Were Good to Bonds, So the Future Will Be, Too -- Wrong CW Assumption 2: If All Else Fails, the Federal Government Will Somehow Save Us -- Rising Interest Rates Will Make Bonds Drop Like a Rock in the Aftershock -- Why Aren't Bond Investors More Worried? -- Bonds Will Fall in Four Stages -- Stage 1: The Recent Past and Now -- Stage 2: The Short-Term Future -- Stage 3: The Medium-Term Future -- Stage 4: The Market Cliff and Aftershock -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- How to Temporarily Own Bonds in an Actively Managed Aftershock Portfolio -- The Bottom Line for Bonds -- Chapter 8: Getting Real about Real Estate -- Real Estate Is Still a Bubble -- What Really Drives Real Estate Prices? -- After the Fundamental Drivers of Real Estate Began to Slow, the Bubble Started to Rise -- Why Conventional Wisdom about Real Estate Is Wrong -- CW Believes Low Interest Rates are Here to Stay -- Rising Interest Rates Will Pop the Rest of the Real Estate Bubble -- How Can the Experts Be So Blind? -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- Your Primary Home-Keep It or Sell It?.

What if I Am "Underwater" on My Mortgage? -- Won't Inflation Push Up the Price of My Home? -- Is Now a Good Time to Buy? -- Is a Reverse Mortgage a Good Idea? -- Vacation Properties -- Income-Producing Residential Rental Properties -- Income-Producing Commercial Real Estate -- Farmland -- Timing Your Exits Out of Real Estate -- What Can I Do to Make My Property Sell Faster? -- Exiting Out of Income-Producing Real Estate Is Trickier -- The High Cost of Doing Nothing -- Chapter 9: Future Threats to the Safety Nets -- All Insurance and Annuities Are Essentially Investments in Bonds -- Conventional Wisdom on Whole Life Insurance and Annuities: Perfectly Safe and Worth Every Penny! -- All This Provides a Deep Sense of Safety, but That Comfort Comes at a Premium Price -- Are Any of These Policies a Good Deal? -- Why Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong: Facing the Real 800-Pound Gorilla in the Room -- How Will Rising Inflation and Rising Interest Rates Impact My Insurance or Annuity Policies? -- Your Insurance Company Need Not Go Bankrupt for Your Policy to Be Worth Much Less in the Aftershock -- What About the State and Federal Governments-Won't They Protect Us? -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- Life Insurance -- Annuities -- Long-Term Care Insurance and Disability Insurance -- Other Types of Insurance that Are Not Investment Dependent: Health, Auto, and Home Insurance -- When to Exit Your Investment-Dependent Insurance Policies -- Your Best "Insurance" Is an Actively Managed Aftershock Portfolio -- Chapter 10: Gold -- Gold Was Golden for Centuries -- Paper Money Used to Be "Backed" by Gold -- Current Conventional Wisdom on Gold as an Investment: Stay Away! -- Why Current Conventional Wisdom on Gold Is Wrong -- Greatly Limited Supply and Sharply Rising Demand Will Drive Huge Price Growth.

Why This Investment Feels So Uncomfortable Now: Gold Is the Anti-Stock -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- Gold Will Rise in Four Stages -- How to Buy Gold -- 1. Buy Physical Gold from a Local Coin Dealer or a Reputable Online Dealer -- 2. Buy Gold Exchange-Traded Funds -- 3. Buy Gold Using a Gold Depository -- What About Gold-Mining Stocks? -- Leveraging Gold -- What About Silver? -- Owning Gold as Part of a Well-Diversified Actively Managed Aftershock Portfolio -- How High Will Gold Go? -- When Will the Future Gold Bubble Pop? -- Part III: Your Aftershock Game Plan -- Chapter 11: Aftershock Jobs and Businesses -- The Rising Bubble Economy Created Huge Job Growth -- Now the Falling Bubble Economy Means Fewer Jobs -- Conventional Wisdom about Future Job Growth Is Based on Faith that the Future Will Be Like the Past -- Why Conventional Wisdom on Jobs Is Wrong -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- The Falling Bubbles Will Have Varying Impacts on Three Broad Economic Sectors -- Should I Go to College? -- Opportunities after the Bubbles Pop: Cashing In on Distressed Assets -- Dig Your Well before You Are Thirsty -- Chapter 12: Aftershock Money Smarts -- Don't Let Spending Become the Achilles Heel of Your Aftershock Preparations -- Stop Spending as if There's No Tomorrow -- Savings: How Much Is Enough? -- The Buying Power of Your Savings Will Evaporate with Inflation -- Where to Stash Your Cash? -- Borrowing Money before, during, and after the Aftershock -- Mortgage Debt -- Credit Card Debt -- Car Loans -- Business Debt -- Saving and Borrowing for College -- Saving for College -- Financial Aid -- Student Loans -- Summing It Up -- Chapter 13: Aftershock Retirement and Estate Planning -- Why Conventional Wisdom on Retirement Is Wrong -- What's a Savvy Aftershock Investor to Do? -- Defined Benefit Pension Plans.

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