The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times
by Martin D. Weiss ( )Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
Having an effective financial and personal plan for the future is now more crucial than ever. And with The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide, readers will quickly learn how to create such a plan. This comprehensive guide was especially designed to help people map out a practical financial plan in this unpredictable economic environment, so that they can stop worrying about their money and just enjoy life. Step by step, Martin Weiss--America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety--introduces, explains, and helps solve many of the new challenges and risks that face millions of Americans. Throughout the book, Weiss provides readers with sound strategies for coping with the credit crunch, housing bust, and decline of the U.S. dollar. The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide also examines important topics that today's investor must be familiar with--including global investing, foreign currencies, and commodities--if they intend to make it through the decade ahead.Martin D. Weiss, PhD (Palm Beach, FL), is chairman of The Weiss Group, LLC, which consists of three separate corporations, including Weiss Research, Inc. Weiss Research is dedicated to providing information and tools to help investors make sounder financial decisions and offers its insights on MoneyandMarkets.com. Weiss is the editor of the financial newsletter Safe Money Report, known for its track record in picking major turns in interest rates. He is the author of The Ultimate Safe Money Guide: How Everyone 50 and Over Can Protect, Save, and Grow Their Money (978-0-471-15202-6) and Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar (978-0-471-42998-2).
Author Biography
Martin D. Weiss, PhD, is President of Weiss Research, Inc., and Editor of the Safe Money Report, known for warning investors of this crisis well ahead of time. He is the author of two other Wiley bestsellers, including The Ultimate Safe Money Guide: How Everyone 50 and Over Can Protect, Save, and Grow Their Money and Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Why a Depression Is Inevitable | p. 1 |
| How to Reduce Debts in Bad Times | p. 10 |
| How to Protect Your Job in Bad Times | p. 11 |
| How to Escape the Housing Nightmare | p. 22 |
| 10 Steps for Selling Your Home in a Sinking Market Want to Keep Your House Come Hell or High Water? | p. 38 |
| Then Here's How to Cut Expenses or Get Assistance | p. 40 |
| Sell Your Stocks-Before It's Too Late! | p. 42 |
| How to Get Your 401(k) Out of Danger | p. 50 |
| The Hidden Traps of Wail Street | p. 55 |
| With Most Corporate and Municipal Bonds Overrated, Here's What to Do With Them | p. 59 |
| How to Find Safe Insurance | p. 65 |
| How Safe Is Your Bank? | p. 72 |
| How to Save in a Depression | p. 74 |
| What Happens to Your Money If Your Bank Fails | p. 85 |
| The Safest Place in the World for Your Money | p. 90 |
| How to Use a Treasury-Only Money Fund for Almost All Your Banking Needs | p. 96 |
| All-Weather Investments for the Best and the Worst of Times | p. 101 |
| How to Build Your Personal Hedge Program | p. 108 |
| How to Profit Directly from the Decline | p. 116 |
| How to Go For Profits in a Down Market | p. 121 |
| How to Continue Making Money Even with the Worst Disasters | p. 123 |
| How to Invest in Foreign Currencies | p. 130 |
| When to Buy the Best Bargains of the Century | p. 131 |
| Basic Principles for Buying at the Bottom | p. 138 |
| Bonds: Your First Great Income Opportunity | p. 140 |
| How to Maximize Your Yield with Safety | p. 151 |
| Dividends: Your Second Great Income Opportunity | p. 152 |
| How to Find Stocks with Steadily Rising Dividends | p. 159 |
| The Great Fork in the Road: Inflation or Deflation? | p. 161 |
| How to Invest in Gold in a Depression | p. 171 |
| The Triumph of the Dollar | p. 173 |
| The Foundation for Recovery | p. 190 |
| Future Fortunes | p. 197 |
| Five Golden Rules for Building New Fortunes | p. 201 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 207 |
| About the Author | p. 209 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 215 |
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