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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.542
EAN num: 9780671885281
ISBN number: 0671885286
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: January 10, 1994
Publishing house: Fireside
Sale Popularity Level: 132557
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The 1990s will be a time of political, economic, social, and financial upheaval. But even in a time of crisis, prepared individuals can prosper if they know:
-- the secrets of megapolitics -- how technology will revolutionize economic and social institutions
-- which businesses will thrive and which will fail
-- how to build a financial foundation in a time of economic crisis
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With the sickening drop in the stock market the past September and October 2008 impelled me to reread this book. The prediction of the market crash in the 1990's appears to be off by a decade. Will the markets stabilize with the concerted help of world governments or will the market, and Western civilization, continue its death plunge to a watery grave? The authors give some good advice, but as always, take with a grain of salt.
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I very first met James in 1993 when he was giving a lecture at Michigan State University. I was well acquainted with him through his newsletter and economic theories that were more than just that. I have the utmost respect for him and have earnestly recommended THIS book to friends who want to build as solid a financial future as they can.
I purchased and studied this book the year it came out - it is foundational wisdom. Imagine...what would you do on the day that note for our trillion dollar deficit comes due? The day the US goes up for grabs? It is not unfathonable. Why not work on a plan for protecting your wealth that CAN span through the ages?
The Great Reckoning dispells any myths. It is strong medicine for those who believe the gravy train will not end and a plan of action for those who know it is already ending. It helps you to better plan your future, your investments and grow your wealth. I only have RAVES to give for this book - and have referred it to any THINKING friend/associate who wants to better prepare themselves, their family and their finances for the future.
Companion books - it took me YEARS to find Blood In The Streets (it was out of print), written by James and Lord Rees Mogg. Buy it! Also Harry Figgie's Bankruptcy 1995 is a must read. You will be surprised by how many of the steps that OTHER countries have taken to prevent capital flight have already been taken by the US. An eye opener.
And...round it off with The Sovereign Individual. It actually takes one tenet from The Great Reckoning and expands upon it a little more. It is not the tome, like the prior 2. However if you are foreign to the idea of you as your own country, well, explore it in that book.
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It's been more than 20 years since I read the very first edition which (at a time when most Americans believed that the USSR was here forever and Reagan's "Evil Empire" comments were irresponsible) accurately forecast the downfall of the Soviet Empire.
The subsequent edition featured a new chapter, Mohammed Replaces Marx and included an extensive discusion of what we now refer to as asymmetrical warfare. The authors correctly saw Muslim fundamentalists filling the vacuum left by decline of the USSR and East European communist governments. In addition, the authors accurately identified the trends of technology as shifting the ability to manage and inflict large scale terror to small nations and stateless groups which would be difficult to track and which had no territory to defend.
Almost 20 years later it is sobering to realize that the proliferation of WMD, especially nuclear weapons, has far exceeded the pace predicted by most government officials years earlier.
Sadly most readers focused instead on the financial predictions which they saw as the most important to their self interests. Thus they were unprepared for either the fall of the Soviet empire or the continued rise of Muslim fundamentalist based terror, either state sponsored as in the cases of Iran, Iraq and others or that sponsored by leaders such as Bin Laden. Too many Americans still fail to realize that we are in a state of war and have never learned or forgotten the lessons of the early days of WWII when action instead of "Peace In Our Time" appeasement, might have prevented the slaughter to tens of millions of people.
Predicting the future is always a dangerous exercise. It is an interesting exercise to pull the book off the shelf years later and thumb through the early editions. As one author noted, the futurists and economists are always wrong and the science fiction writers usually right. Certainly recent history has shown that the author's predictions are not 100% right, but they understand some of the most important forces shaping the world of tomorrow. As a result the value of their thinking puts them at the top of the list.
It is interesting to note that while most books sell on the used market for a fraction of their original cost, the single copy available through Amazon's resellers is listed at 400%+ of the cost new.
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This book is not politically correct, and never made the talk show circuit in the US.
I very first heard of it on Canadian TV 10 years ago.
What has stayed with me for 10 years, is the notion that the time between great depressions [~60 years] is the length of living memory. That memory is to not invest speculatively with borrowed money.
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Absolutely prescient...
Although written in the late eighties, it rings a resounding bell today.
In my humble opinion, it's a window on the past, present, and future - a condensation of controversial, yet seminal truths.
It is a must read for any person with an inquiring mind. It is required mental luggage.
Read it!
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