File Size: 788 KB
Print Length: 460 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Times Square Publishing; 2 edition (December 13, 2015)
Publication Date: December 13, 2015
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B015B83G0Q
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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A well-written, easy thriller to read, this is actually a financial survivalist book with a scholarly twist. If you have any savings at all, you should read it. If you liked The Big Short, this book travels the same road, but in defensive rather than aggressive mode. The book is written by Gordon L Eade, father of the political-legal-ecological thriller writer, Kenneth Eade. Like all the Eade books it is based on real complex events and systems, but tells its tale through its characters. The lead character is an economics professor who brings together the most gifted in his class to make a presentation to a televised government meeting during a future total meltdown of the US and global economy. The meltdown has similar impacts of social chaos to more traditional disasters, like earthquakes. The causes of the crisis and the way to fix it are discussed in a sophisticated but easy to follow way. Whilst he is telling this story, Gordon Eade is also telling the reader how to invest their own money and what you can and cannot believe about investment strategies and whom to trust. Among other ideas discussed is neurological investing theory, where people will invest more if there is a lot to be won, even if the odds are very poor; whether you can trust brokers at all; and what all those strange acronyms actually mean. Stripped of hype, at the end a referenced appendix lays out the reality of the markets and how to survive them step by step. The main character is poignant because he is at the beginnings of alzheimers, knows it, and attempts to deal with it. In fact, we learn that the older of the writers, Gordon, was or is actually going down that road himself. How many of us, as well as fearing financial disaster compromising our retirements, also fear neurological disaster as we age?
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