Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Valuable insights on monetary policies, their impact on your financial future, and how to protect against them
Written by the New York Times bestselling author team of John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper, Code Red spills the beans on the central banks in the U.S., U.K., E.U., and Japan and how they’ve rigged the game against the average saver and investor. More importantly, it shows you how to protect your hard-earned cash from the bankers’ disastrous monetary policies and how to come out a winner in the irresponsible game of chicken they’re playing with the global financial system.
From quantitative easing to zero interest rate policies, ZIRP to the impending currency wars, runaway inflation to GDP targeting, authors Mauldin and Tepper achieve the impossible by not only explaining global monetary policy and its consequences in plain English, but also making it compelling listening.
•Outlines time-tested strategies for surviving and thriving in these tumultuous times
•Addresses how issues such as quantitative easing, financial repression, currency wars, bubble economies, and inflation impact our everyday lives as well as our financial future
•Written by a team of bestselling authors and experts in this dynamic field
How did we get here and where are we headed? What can you do to insulate yourself against, and profit from, economic upheaval and secure your financial future? Find out in Code Red.
Another Book Review from the Aleph Blog This is a tough book to review. It is correct in analysis of what went wrong, but overpromises in what its main goal is — protecting assets before the next financial crisis.Let me take a step back, and describe the structure of the book. A major goal of neoclassical macroeconomics is to try to eliminate the business cycle, and end up with smooth growth that minimizes unemployment.As a result, central bankers, since they have a freer hand than politicians, as they are…
Engaging Exposition of Uncharted Financial Waters Written in a comfortable conversational style, (with many entertaining apropos quotes from mainstream pop culture as well as eminent economists and philosophers from the past) Code Red exposes what makes the current situation unique in the history of fiat currencies. The new and somewhat scary methods of central bank economic influence, Quantitative Easing (QE) and long-term zero interest rate policy, (ZIRP) have never been tried before.So far it has worked, staving off what would…