The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril―Profitable Tactics for Economic Catastrophes
Altucher, James; Sease, Douglas R.
Language: English
Published by Harper Business, 2011
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- Title
- The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril―Profitable Tactics for Economic Catastrophes
- Author
- Altucher, James; Sease, Douglas R.
- Publisher
- Harper Business
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062001329
- ISBN 13
- 9780062001320
- Series
- Book 11 of 15: Wall Street Journal Guides
In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, authors James Altucher and Douglas R. Sease provide investors with provocative and essential guidance that will enable them to take advantage of the lucrative investment opportunities that inevitably will arise when disaster strikes. The only book of its kind currently on the market, this indispensible handbook will help savvy investors make money by seeing opportunity where others see only peril.
This guide to opportunistic investing reveals how to prepare your finances not just to survive—but to prosper:
- Event-Based Investing: Learn to master the authors’ core methodology by analyzing the financial impact of historical cataclysms—from presidential assassinations to global pandemics.
- Fade the Fear: Discover the #1 principle for staying calm and thinking rationally when professional traders and ordinary investors lose their nerve and desperately seek safety.
- Apocalyptic Scenarios: Explore detailed financial breakdowns of how to find opportunities in pandemics, water shortages, peak oil, terrorism, and even the end of capitalism.
- Actionable Advice: Get specific guidance on “back-door” and “front-door” plays, from investing in large, stable companies to identifying speculative firms focused on a single crisis.
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About the Author
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, and chess master. He has started and run more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself and produced by DNA Films was released on Amazon in 2020.
Douglas R. Sease was a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-six years. He is the author of five books on investing and tax policy and has edited or ghostwritten more than a dozen books on management, finance, government, and foreign business.
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