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Author's Note ix
Introduction 1
Part I Resource Shortages: Facing Facts 11
Chapter 1 Oil: Racing to Run-Out 13
Chapter 2 Vicious Circles: Oil, Metals, and Minerals 25
Chapter 3 Water Is a Commodity, Too 34
Chapter 4 The Developing World 43
Chapter 5 The Curse and Cost of Complexity 58
Chapter 6 Wall Street, Complexity, and the Shortfall in Resources 68
Part II Meeting the Challenge 77
Chapter 7 We Never Said It Would Be Easy 79
Chapter 8 Alternative Energies 86
Chapter 9 More on Alternative Energies 100
Chapter 10 Buying Time 113
Chapter 11 Denial and Disaster 124
Part III Economic Tsunami 135
Chapter 12 The Inflation Bomb 137
Chapter 13 Inflation: Why the Old Solutions Will No Longer Work 149
Part IV Investments for a Chaotic World 165
Chapter 14 Gold: Your Single Best Bet as the Commodity Crisis Unfolds 167
Chapter 15 BRAC: Staying Afloat by Investing Abroad 189
Chapter 16 Investing in the New Resource War 205
Chapter 17 Investing in the Solutions 213
Chapter 18 Our Best Hope: A Flatter World After All 222
Index 233
Acknowledgments 243
About the Author 245
LCK
Posted April 9, 2010
Game Over seems well researched and provides a comprehensive look at how monetary actions and resource availability could potentially combine to enable interesting investment opportunities in the future. The tone of the book is rather "doom and gloom", which the author admits at several points. If you can maintain some optimism as you read it you will get a better understand of how US and other government actions to get us out of the current mess are unprecedented and how old school investment advice should be scrutinized very closely. Game Over lacks specific tactics about investing in gold, which he presents as the best hedge against inflation in the future, but Leeb does provide a good overview of how the price of gold might behave in the future as the world economy reacts to both the newly minted supply of money and the ever increasing cost of extracting resources from the earth.
I definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to better understand how to invest in the future in response to the current economic crisis.
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Posted September 13, 2009
Very thought provoking. It's especially timely given the (bogus) climate change efforts in process to kill our economy. If only the felons in Congress would take this to heart and put together a real energy policy to help avoid what this book sees as a possible future outcome.
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Overview
You already know about the devastating recession we're in. Jobs are being cut by the tens of thousands. Real estate values are plummeting. Retirement plans and 401ks are going up in smoke. And then there's rising inflation. And whether we like it or not, higher gasoline prices again are right around the corner.Then there's the ever-present confusion and dips in the stock market, and, whether we want to admit it or not, the fact that the world is finally beginning to run out of essential raw materials, such as silver, titanium, and, of course, oil.
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