Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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? |
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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 |
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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.
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Industrial management.
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Business cycles
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Financial crises
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Business forecasting
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Business cycles
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Business forecasting
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Financial crises
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Industrial management
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Leadership
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Beaulieu, Alan, 1956- author.
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ISBN |
1118809890 |
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9781118809891 |
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1118933214 |
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9781118933213 |
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9781118933206 |
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1118933206 |
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