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Prosperity in the age of decline : how to lead your business and preserve wealth through the coming business cycles /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Beaulieu, Brian, 1956- (Autor), Beaulieu, Alan, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2014]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.