{"product_id":"aftermath-seven-secrets-of-wealth-preservation-in-the-coming-chaos-9780735216952","title":"Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinancial expert, investment advisor and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author James Rickards shows why and how global financial markets are being artificially inflated--and what smart investors can do to protect their assets  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat goes up, must come down. As any student of financial history knows, the dizzying heights of the stock market can't continue indefinitely--especially since asset prices have been artificially inflated by investor optimism around the Trump administration, ruinously low interest rates, and the infiltration of behavioral economics into our financial lives. The elites are prepared, but what's the average investor to do? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Rickards, the author of the prescient books \u003ci\u003eCurrency Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Money\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e, lays out the true risks to our financial system, and offers invaluable advice on how best to weather the storm. You'll learn, for instance: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e How behavioral economists prop up the market: Funds that administer 401(k)s use all kinds of tricks to make you invest more, inflating asset prices to unsustainable levels.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e Why digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are best avoided. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e Why passive investing has been overhyped: The average investor has been scolded into passively managed index funds. But active investors will soon have a big advantage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e What the financial landscape will look like after the next crisis: it will not be an apocalypse, but it will be radically different. Those who forsee this landscape can prepare now to preserve wealth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProvocative, stirring, and full of counterintuitive advice, \u003ci\u003eAftermath\u003c\/i\u003e is the book every smart investor will want to get their hands on--as soon as possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Rickards\u003c\/b\u003e is the Editor of \u003ci\u003eStrategic Intelligence \u003c\/i\u003ea financial newsletter. He is \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Great Depression\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eAftermath\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Case for Gold\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Money\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eCurrency Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) from Penguin Random House. He is an investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist, and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He is an op-ed contributor to the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been interviewed by BBC, CNN, NPR, CSPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal. \u003c\/i\u003eMr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Trinity College Dublin, The Kellogg School at Northwestern, the U.S. Army War College and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has presented papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is on the Advisory Board of the FDD Center on Economic and Financial Power in Washington DC. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. 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