The Global Debt Trap, Claus Vogt
The Global Debt Trap, Claus Vogt
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The Global Debt Trap
How to Escape the Danger and Build a Fortune

Author: Claus Vogt, Martin D. Weiss, Roland Leuschel

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Since the financial bubble burst, the U.S. has created and pushed a monetary and fiscal policy which was at best blatantly wrong - and at worst carried an enormous financial risk -- and this is what started the real estate bubble. Those responsible repudiated the clearly visible problems and closed their eyes to the huge risks involved. Using quotes from their own work of the past few years, the authors prove that the dangers could indeed be clearly recognized: absurd rises in real estate prices and almost unbelievable excesses in bank lending (securitization of accounts receivable, credit insurers, and derivatives). The authors describe how the creators of the ever-present propaganda machine are systematically diverting attention from the fact that it was government interference in the market economy which brought us to where we are now, namely at the beginning of a financial calamity. They also describe what form the governments' and central banks' interventionist answers to the crisis take - and where they presumably will take us. This is an extremely transparent plea for the market economy. The book provides a lucrative message for readers: Every crisis - even the current one - offers fantastic opportunities for those who have prepared for it.

Reviews

Goodreads review by C.J. on August 06, 2011

This book gives a great synopsis of the last decade, as well as a good understanding of what is coming down the road but it is light on solutions and on how to implement them. The authors should have spend at least another chapter on how citizens can protect themselves. Even still, I'd recommend thi......more