
Code Red : How to Protect Your Savings from the Coming Crisis
[Book Description]
Wall Street Journal Bestseller Valuable insights on monetary policies, their impact on your financial future, and how to protect against them
Written by the New York Times bestselling author team of John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper, Code Red spills the beans on the central banks in the U.S., U.K., E.U., and Japan and how they've rigged the game against the average saver and investor. More importantly, it shows you how to protect your hard-earned cash from the bankers' disastrous monetary policies and how to come out a winner in the irresponsible game of chicken they're playing with the global financial system.
From quantitative easing to zero interest rate policies, ZIRP to the impending currency wars, runaway inflation to GDP targeting, authors Mauldin and Tepper achieve the impossible by not only explaining global monetary policy and its consequences in plain English, but also making it compelling reading.* Outlines time-tested strategies for surviving and thriving in these tumultuous times * Addresses how issues such as quantitative easing, financial repression, currency wars, bubble economies, and inflation impact our everyday lives as well as our financial future * Written by a team of bestselling authors and experts in this dynamic field
How did we get here and where are we headed? What can you do to insulate yourself against, and profit from, economic upheaval and secure your financial future? Find out in Code Red.
[Table of Contents]
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Code Red 1 (10)
Part I 11 (240)
Chapter One The Great Experiment 13 (20)
Chapter Two Twentieth-Century Currency 33 (24)
Wars: The Barbarous Relic and Bretton Woods
Chapter Three The Japanese Tsunami: 57 (34)
Starting a Currency War
Chapter Four A World of Financial Repression 91 (26)
Chapter Five Arsonists Running the Fire 117(16)
Brigade
Chapter Six Economists Are Clueless 133(38)
Chapter Seven Escape Velocity 171(30)
Chapter Eight What Will Happen When It All 201(20)
Goes Wrong
Chapter Nine Easy Money Will Lead to 221(30)
Bubbles and How to Profit from Them
Part II Managing Your Money 251(68)
Chapter Ten Protection through 253(18)
Diversification
Chapter Eleven How to Protect Yourself 271(30)
against Inflation
Chapter Twelve A Look at Commodities, Gold, 301(18)
and Other Real Assets
Conclusion 319(6)
Afterword 325(16)
Notes 341(2)
About the Authors 343(2)
Index 345