The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril

by James Altucher, Douglas R Sease

Overview

In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, authors James Altucher and Douglas R. Sease provide investors with provocative and essential guidance that will enable them to take advantage of the lucrative investment opportunities that inevitably will arise when disaster strikes. The only book of its kind currently on the market, this indispensible handbook will help savvy investors make money by seeing opportunity where others see only peril.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062001320
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Wall Street Journal Guides
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, and chess master. He has started and run more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself and produced by DNA Films was released on Amazon in 2020.

Douglas R. Sease was a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-six years. He is the author of five books on investing and tax policy and has edited or ghostwritten more than a dozen books on management, finance, government, and foreign business.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv

1 An III Wind: The Fundamentals of Apocalyptic Investing 1

2 Pandemic! 27

3 Nor Any Drop to Drink: The Emerging Fresh Water Crisis 47

4 Tough Oil 61

5 Is It Just Me, or Is It Getting Warmer? The Looming Threat of Global Warming 79

6 Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself: The Threat of Terrorism 95

7 Close Encounters with the Death Star 117

8 Game Over! The End of Capitalism 133

Conclusion 155

A Quick Guide to Apocalyptic Investing 159

James Altucher's Apocalyptic Reading List 163

Index 167