Planet Ponzi

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Glacier USA INC, Feb 2, 2012 - Business & Economics - 384 pages

The world economy is now approaching the final death rattle of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history: a scheme in which politicians stood by as the financial industry and sovereign governments created a vast overhang of debt, a mountain of low-quality assets - and laid the foundations for an economic disaster which will dwarf any other in history.

There are four possible outcomes for our future:

* economic growth (unlikely)

* stagnation (probable)

* inflation (bad)

* default (disastrous)

Which of the four will depend on choices made right now, only sometimes wisely, by politicians, technocrats, and bankers.

Planet Ponzi provides an insider's assessment of issues facing the global economy. Mitch Feierstein reveals the true debts of the US government and the eurozone - the full picture, not the figures the politicians would have us believe.

*Planet Ponzi is more relevant today than when it was written.

 

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Contents

Section 1
12
Section 2
15
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28

Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31
Section 32
Section 33
Section 34
Section 35
Section 36
Section 37
Section 38
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About the author (2012)

Mitch Feierstein knows the financial industry inside out. For the past 30 years, he consistently created opportunity and value where others have failed to look. He is a highly successful hedge-fund manager and CEO of the Glacier Environmental Fund Limited. Prior to Glacier he was Senior Portfolio Manager of the Cheyne Carbon Fund, part of one of the largest and best-respected hedge-fund groups operating in Europe. He has acted as a consultant for a number of governments in their disaster and contingency planning. He divides his time between London and New York.

Bibliographic information

TitlePlanet Ponzi
AuthorMitch Feierstein
PublisherGlacier USA INC, 2012
ISBN0985036907, 9780985036904
Length384 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Economic History
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General
Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Investing
Political Science / Globalization
  
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