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Author Beaulieu, Brian, 1956- author.

Title Prosperity in the age of decline : how to lead your business and preserve wealth through the coming business cycles / Brian Beaulieu and Alan Beaulieu
Published Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2014]
©2014

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Results That No One Can Ignore: You Can Successfully Prepare for an Unknown Future -- Where Not to Look -- Confidence Indicators -- Politics -- Federal Reserve Board (The U.S. Version of Central Banks in Other Countries) -- Newspapers and Media -- ITR Economics Forecast Accuracy -- Chapter 2 The Status Quo Never Was: Seven Major Trends and Assumptions That Won't Last -- Unstoppable Trends That Suddenly Stopped -- Population Growth Will Kill Humankind -- Cheap Oil Is Here to Stay -- Japan Will Surpass the United States as the World's Economic Superpower -- Inflation -- The Housing Bubble -- The Stock Market -- Today's Trends That Won't Last Forever -- China -- Stimulus Spending Is Needed and Helpful -- Will These Trends Endure? -- Chapter 3 Preparing for Prosperity-Good News for 2015 and 2016: Do You Have Enough? -- What Will 2015, 2016, and 2017 Look Like? -- Chapter 4 Depression Driver: Demographics -- More People, More Older People -- Show Me the Money -- Medicare and Social Security -- Managing to Win -- Probable Winners -- (Potential) Losers -- Chapter 5 A World That Doesn't Remember Inflation: New Management and Investment Thought Processes Required -- Inflation's Impacts -- Five Sources of Inflation -- Money Supply Growth: The Fuel -- Domestically Sourced Inflation: Health Care -- Domestically Sourced Inflation: Going Green -- Domestically Sourced Inflation: Labor Prices -- Imported Inflation -- Managing to Win -- Businesses -- Individuals -- Winners and Losers -- Appendix to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 Sovereign Debt-Harmless or Toxic? Not Just an American Problem -- A Global Perspective -- Summary -- Chapter 7 A Closer Look at the United States: The U.S. Problem Becomes the World's Problem -- Where Are We Now? -- Where Are We Going?
State and Local Governments -- Spreading the Pain around the World -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Business Growth Strategies and Tactics from Now through 2029 -- Monthly Moving Totals (MMTs) -- Calculating Rate-of-Change -- Use the Metrics -- Chapter 9 Offense and Defense: Strategies for the Upside of the Business Cycle -- Offense and Defense -- Conflicting Messages -- Don't Delay -- Phase A Management Objectives -- Costs and Savings -- Build the Foundation for Recovery -- People and Leadership -- Growth and Expansion -- Let the Good Times Roll -- Open Up the Throttle -- Look Beyond The Current Trend -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Playing Defense to Win: Enhancing Profits Even as the Economy Deteriorates -- Management Objectives -- Cash Is Going to Be King -- Get All the Team on the Same Page -- Phase D-The Most Negative Phase of the Cycle -- Phase D Management Objectives -- Less is More -- Time to Open Up the Purse Strings -- The Rules Are Changing -- Top 10 Rules for Managing the Business Cycle -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Great Opportunities within the Stock Market: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know -- Energy Distribution -- Printed Electronics -- Mexico -- Water Conservation and Distribution -- Health Care -- Vocational Education -- 3-D Printing -- Housing -- Security -- Natural Resources -- Food -- Entertainment -- Chapter 12 Investing Based on Age and Trend -- Some Commonalities -- Different Markets-Different Times -- How Old Are You? -- Twenty-Something -- Thirty-Something -- Forties and Fifties -- Home Stretch toward Retirement -- Onset of the Great Depression: Good Advice for All Ages -- Chapter 13 How to Spot the Top (Before the Great Depression) -- Eight Road Signs to Depression
Chapter 14 What the Next Generation Needs to Know: Six Things the Next Generation Must Do -- What Owners and Managers Must Do -- Six Things Our Kids (and Businesses) Must Do -- Chapter 15 Is There Hope? -- What Can Stave Off the Great Depression of 2030? -- A Different View of the 1930s -- A Different Future -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA
Summary Offers advice for business leaders looking to preserve their wealth and learn how to profit on the way out of the predicted coming Depression and provides a working list of potential key trends and the benefits and downsides of each
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Leadership.
Industrial management.
Business cycles
Financial crises
Business forecasting
Business cycles
Business forecasting
Financial crises
Industrial management
Leadership
Form Electronic book
Author Beaulieu, Alan, 1956- author.
ISBN 1118809890
9781118809891
1118933214
9781118933213
9781118933206
1118933206
Other Titles How to lead your business and preserve wealth through the coming business cycles