Liquidate America

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Publishing House: CITIC Publishing House

Page number: 246 pages

Publication date: 2009

ISBN:97875086 13789

Bar code: 97875086 13789

Version: 1 version

Binding: paperback

Page number: 16

Chinese: Chinese

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brief Introduction of the content

How did the American economy fall into recession? "Clearing America" believes that the economic situation of the United States exactly reflects the "moderate recession" experienced by Japan. The structural response to the financial boom and the aging population has brought the United States to the brink of complete liquidation. Clearing America makes a penetrating and profound analysis of major events in American politics and military affairs and the relationship between economy and finance, which effectively suppresses the close relationship between these events and economic turmoil. In the book, you will know: Why did the stock market bubble burst in the information age?

Why does consumerism with high consumption and high credit make the American economy go into recession? Will America decline like Japan? What is the legacy of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben alan greenspan? In the future, will the aging population affect the stock price more than fiscal policy? Depression is not necessarily a thing of the past. All kinds of problems accumulated in history will break out at some time when time goes by. How did the economic situation in the United States develop to today? How will the future develop? Clearing America will bring you unimaginable inspiration.

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Brief introduction of the author

William Boner, Chairman and CEO of Agora Publishing Group, is the founder of daily settlement, a financial newsletter. Daily Settlement has more than 500,000 readers in the United States and Britain, and has been translated into French, German and Spanish, which has been highly praised by mainstream media. He is also the author of the best-selling Debt Empire and the co-author of Rogue Country.

Addison Wiggin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Daily Settlement, and also the executive director of a financial investigation company with a turnover of one million dollars and AgoraFinancial Publishing Group. He has published many articles in The New York Times, Money, TheStreet.com and CNN. He worked at Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and received a master's degree in philosophy from St. John's University. Author of Falling Dollar and co-author of Debt Empire.

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Media recommendation

History has proved that the economy of countries where people generally save and invest will grow and prosper, and vice versa, it will decline, deteriorate or even collapse. This book expounds the artificially low interest rate and fast credit policies set by Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, which led to the bubble in the American stock market in the late 1990s. The policies implemented by the Federal Reserve exacerbated the deterioration of the bubble, turning a simple stock market bubble into a consumption and housing bubble. When these bubbles burst, the situation will get worse. ...

Jim rogers, one of the founders of Quantum Fund, is an internationally renowned investor.

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Editor's recommendation

Instead of saving and investing in profitable new projects, Americans choose luxury consumption that exceeds their income level. Now, the day of reckoning has come.

The American economy is repeating the script written by Japan. Except for a little improvisation and cultural differences, the beauty story in 1995 ~ 200 1 is basically similar to the Japanese story in 1985 ~ 199 1.

The economy of a consumer society can no longer generate the income that ordinary Americans need for retirement. As the baby boomers approach retirement age, if they decide to save at a rate of 5%, it will lead to a recession that has never happened in years.

The United States needs to find a new economic model and can no longer hope to achieve prosperity through consumption and loans. This is not a periodic change, but a lasting structural change.

In the past half century, the continuous development of consumerism has brought the United States to a critical moment in history. Will America fall into the biggest depression in history?

All economic, military, demographic and American problems will be solved today.

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catalogue

Foreword jim rogers VII

Introduce XI

The first chapter is the era of excessive expansion.

From Pioneer to Fool 5

Break down because of too much money

Will the day of reckoning come? 10

Greedy "new human" 1 1

The Real Fate of Virtual Profit 14

A scam caused by excitement 16

A small needle burst the foam 18.

Crazy and absurd mergers and acquisitions 20

General Motors and the Old Economy 22

The price of madness 23

Can information create eternal prosperity? 25

Internet has caused stock prices to skyrocket and plummet, 27

Information makes us ignorant.

The temptation of the public 3l

Chapter II All capitalism has shortcomings.

Arrogant Americans 35

Backward 36

Is development inevitable? 38

Technology produces a larger foam 38.

Millennium optimist 39

Is the price really as predictable as rolling dice? 4l

The market has never been objective and calm.

Absurd efficient market hypothesis 45

The instability of capitalism

The vicious circle of credit 47

The third chapter speculation 49

A murder at 5 1 Campoy Street, Gan.

Mississippi fever 52

The legendary life of john law 53

Scots who have no money to lose 54

Legal tender will be issued at 55.

Creating money 57

Save the royal family's finances 58

The foam expanded 60 times.

Soaring stock prices.

The end of paper money 63

Liars and prophets 65

A brief history of speculative fanaticism 66

The fourth chapter like Japan decline 7 1

Different Japan 73

Characteristics of Japanese economy

Weird capitalism 76

Japan's prosperity 77

Miracle Bubble 79

Self-inflating 8 1

Consumption spree 82

From credit inflation to credit crunch 84

The collapse of the economic miracle

The lost decade 86

Financial scandal 90

The American economy similar to Japan is 9l.

Never change your ancestors 92

Irrecoverable Japanese economy

Collective illusion 95

Latent "vampire company" 96

The failure of the central bank 97

The frightened Federal Reserve 99

Long-term slow decline 100

Chapter V Greenspan's Big Bubble 103

Flexible monetary system 105

Lincoln Green Coin 107

From depravity to depression 109

Rational egoism 1 13

Gold and economic freedom 1 15

The temptation of Greenspan 1 16

The greatest prosperity in economic history 1 19

Irrational prosperity +02 1

Saver Greenspan 123

Productivity scam 124

Wrong bull market 126

Junk bonds and bad gambling are about 127.

Unfathomable benefits 129

The most valuable banknote 130

Disintegration of the myth of selling rights 132

Interest rate cuts are futile 133

Failed vision 135

The sixth chapter unreasonable ou 139

Popular madness 14 1

The Magic of Group Thinking 143

Empty reasoning 144

Abstract public knowledge 146

Unreliable reasons 147

Almost ignorant 148

Mass control 149

The purpose of group thinking 149

Smashed popular myth 15l

Universal belief 152

American century 153

Democratic consumer capitalism 153

Modem moderate decline 154

Group risk 155

Great influence on capitalism 156

Shareholder country 158

Chapter VII America is about to fall into a long recession

Population change 162

Aging West 164

Effects of aging 165

Retirees 167

Baby boomers 170

The rise of consumer society 172

The illusion of prosperity 175

Capitalism in the Late Recession 178

Stock market executives 180

Big fantasy 18 1

The coming depression 183

Unreliable social security 1 86

Fragile pension plan 187

Inflation of medical expenditure 188

More unemployed 188

Chapter VIII It's time to liquidate America.

Low-interest bait 197

Savings have become public enemy 198.

Consumer confidence 199

Dangerous dollar 202

Abnormal downturn 203

Japan's recession 207

Real wealth and poverty 208

Facts and Lies 2 10

Junk coin 2 12

Economic dead end 2 15

Timely economy 2 16

Overwhelming empire 2 17

Inflation panacea 22l

Can war make you rich? 223

Chapter 9 Abnormal recession after abnormal prosperity 225

Serves you right. You deserve it.

The increase of moral hazard 232

After the bubble 234

Sad dollar depreciation process 237

The danger of new consumption carnival 239

A once-in-a-decade deal

Enjoy the end of the world 244

Confirmation 246

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foreword

Some people want to buy a baseball team, others want to be a playboy, but I heard that when asked what they want to do most, the most common answer of young people is: "I want to travel around the world."

I traveled around the world twice: once by bike and once by Mercedes-Benz. I feel much crazier than the average person.

I like traveling around the world, but I don't like any other adventure activities-of course I like adventure, because it's the only way I can really understand what's happening in this world. I don't believe in newspapers, TV or government announcements. These can only make everyone see the same thing. I want to be there, see it with my own eyes, or even experience it personally.

When you cross the barren border, look for the black market, exchange money or talk with local people, you can learn more about the local society and have a deeper understanding, which is not what you can learn from listening to officials and economists of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in general, or watching the financial channel of the American consumer news and business channel.

When I crossed the border and arrived in a country, I had learned all kinds of situations in this country. I know the bureaucracy, infrastructure, corruption and economic and monetary conditions of this country. I also know whether I will invest here.

Another way to understand what is happening in the world is to study history. When I give lectures in universities, young people always ask me this question: "I want to be successful, I want to travel around the world, so what should I study?"

I always give them the same answer: "study history."

They always look at me blankly: "What do you mean ... economics? What about marketing? "

"If you want to succeed," I always answer, "you must know history. You will find that although the world is always changing, many things we see today have actually happened before. Believe it or not, the stock market didn't start running on the day you graduated. The stock market has existed for centuries. This is true in all markets. These have happened a long time ago and will continue to happen. "

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abstract

Baby boomers

From 1946 to 1964, the number of new students in the United States reached 78 million-the largest baby boom in American history. By the mid-1980s, baby boomers had become the largest generation, accounting for 1/3 of the national population in the United States. 1200,000 cans of baby food were sold in 1953, and1500,000 credit cards were issued in 2002. Thanks to these, the existence of "baby boom" is well known to the world.

There have been many descriptions and comments on the scale and influence of the baby boomer generation, so I won't repeat them here, only adding that in the history of the public, no one can realize its greatness and importance more than the 79 million newborn population after World War II. Never before have so many people grown up at the same time. Thanks to modern means of communication, mainly television, baby boomers can keep in touch wherever they are. Baby boomers watch Mickey Mouse Club, US Baby and dick clark's American concerts together, and find themselves in these programs. Spend a lot of time in front of the TV so that they not only know how to dance, but also know what kind of music to listen to, how to dress up and how to think. Such a scene has never happened before.

It seems to be a cliche that this huge group has integrated into American society and changed the face of American society. And the baby boomers have become a crazy generation-crazier than any other group in history-and the extent of this madness seems to have not been fully understood. Baby boomers absorb any ideas that can interest them, simplify them, then publicize them widely, spread them widely, and then indulge in them like favorite pop songs. These people are cynical when they are young, and become mediocre in middle age. Considering the influence of the huge number of this generation on the stock market, the baby boomers have created a grand economic prosperity. Next, these people will create a great recession.

"'I am a student, not a computer card! Don't fold me, don't stick me in paper, and don't hurt me! This is the content on the warning sign in front of the Spreux Auditorium of the University of California, Berkeley. 1964. "William Strauss and Neil Howe wrote in their book The Fourth Turn. Many people targeted by this warning will go to work in Silicon Valley companies in a few decades, but at this time, they are still laughing at the school's treatment of their "computer cards".

Allen ginsberg and the "Beat Generation" expressed their views through quiet poems and songs, while the baby boomers took to the streets to complain. Baby boomers never have a clear idea of what they should complain about and who they should complain about. "Hippies of the baby boomers advertise their' non-negotiable demands' widely, but they don't care who is listening." Strauss and Howe say this in the book.

"Listen, start, leave!" They shouted.

In the 1960s, a vibrant economy provided job opportunities for everyone who wanted to work. pass by