From the eBook - Third edition.
Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown; Copyright; Contents; Executive Summary; What Is a Bubble?; What Is a Bubble Economy?; What Is the Aftershock?; Acknowledgments; Preface to the Third Edition of Aftershock; Introduction: Your Guide to the Third Edition of Aftershock; Part 1: The Coming Aftershock; Chapter 1: This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake: Why the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled; Isn't a Fake Recovery Better than No Recovery at All?; If the Aftershock Has Not Been Canceled, Why Hasn't It Happened Yet?
The Key to Creating and Maintaining the Fake Recovery: Massive Money PrintingIn a Supporting Role: Cheerleading; Ammo for the Cheerleaders: Inflation Appears Low; More Ammo for the Cheerleaders: Relatively Low Unemployment Rate; Still Not Sure This Recovery Is 100 Percent Fake?; If This Recovery Is Real, Why Is Government Borrowing Outpacing GDP Growth?; If This Recovery Is Real, Why Are Stock Prices Growing Much Faster than Company Earnings?; If This Recovery Is Real, Why Are Stock Prices Growing Much Faster than GDP?; If This Recovery Is Real, Why Is the Global Economy Slowing?
How Do You Define a Bubble? Assets Up, Economy FlatHow Do You Define Insanity?; Don't Believe the Stimulus Has to Eventually End? There Is a Limit to What the Government Can Do; Wondering Why the Aftershock Hasn't Happened Already? "Animal Spirits" Are Keeping Us Going; The Fierce Fight to Save the Bubbles; When Will It Happen?; Please Prepare Now; Chapter 2: America's Bubble Economy: Understanding How We Accurately Predicted the Financial Crisis of 2008 Is Key to Understanding Why Our Latest Predictions Are Also Correct; Because Our Earlier Books Were Right, Now You Can Be Right, Too.
Didn't Other Bearish Analysts Get It Right, Too?How the "Experts" Got It So Wrong; More Wrong Predictions; Predictions from Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson-We Trust These Officials with Our Economy; Where We Have Been Wrong; Chapter 3: Phase 1: The Bubbles Begin to Burst: Pop Go the Housing, Stock, Private Debt, and Spending Bubbles; Bubbles "R" Us: A Quick Review of America's Bubble Economy; The Real Estate Bubble; The Stock Market Bubble; The Private Debt Bubble; The Discretionary Spending Bubble; The Dollar Bubble; The Government Debt Bubble.
From Boom to Bust: The Virtuous Upward Spiral Becomes a Vicious Downward SpiralPop Goes the Real Estate Bubble; No One Thought Home Prices Would Decline; "Innovations" in the Mortgage Industry Made the Housing Bubble Possible; Had Home Prices Kept Going Up Rapidly, the Mortgage Industry Would Still Be Fine; Had Home Prices Kept Going Up Rapidly, Home Buyers Would Still Be Fine; Had Home Prices Kept Going Up Rapidly, Wall Street Would Still Be Fine; Pop Goes the Stock Market Bubble.
pt. 1. First the bubblequake, next the aftershock
pt. 2. Aftershock dangers and profits.