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false <![CDATA[The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide to the Greatest Financial Crisis of the Century (Understanding and Surviving the Domino Depression)]]> 6610602 1 Are you mad as hell? At last, Stephen Windwalker provides the concise tell-it-like-it-is narrative for which we have all been waiting: How did we get here, how much worse is it going to get, and what can we do to protect ourselves, our families, and our future? The time for seeing the world through a rose-colored lens is long over. Simple truths that run deep through Windwalker's writing come directly from years of helping working and retired people stand up for economic justice as one of the country's top community organizers. Readers of Windwalker's books on technology and commerce have come to appreciate the thoughtfulness and intellectual depth with which he has illuminated those subjects. Now he applies the same intelligent focus to a far more daunting task: helping us all to see how, together, we can climb out of the deep hole that we have dug together for ourselves, our children and grandchildren. With a succinct explanation of the relentless waves that continue to drown national economies around the world, he clears the fog of denial to reveal a rolling global depression that could last through much of the coming decade. Table of Contents Preface: Iceland 2008, and Six Degrees Of Global Thermonuclear Economic Collapse Part One What's Really Going On Here? 1. What Does This Have to Do with Dominoes? 2. Arm Yourself with Knowledge and Curiosity 3. Don't Declare Victory at Halftime 4. Prepare for Pain 5. Get Your Head Around the Numbers and the Zeroes 6. It's a Wonderful Life – Not! 7. Pop Goes the Bubble 8. Economic Collapse, One State at a Time 9. Over 20 Million Unemployed and Underemployed 10. How Deflation Turns Into Inflation 11. Expecting to Fly: The Problem with History 12. Perhaps You've Heard This One Before: The Markets Always Recover 13. The Collapse of Safe Havens 14. Say No to Child Abuse 15. Rise Above the Hard Bigotry Of Hard Times 16. This is Not a "Mental Recession" 17. Don't Believe in Jobs That May Never Come Back 18. Don't Be the Ostrich That the Wise Guys Want You to Be 19. Rampant Private Corruption 20. The Cyclical Nature of Electoral Politics and The Myth of the Republican Political Narrative 21. Funny Money 22. Rise and Collapse of a Casino Economy 23. The Stock Market and Equity Value Crash 24. The Consumer Credit Crisis (Credit Cards and Beyond) 25. The Collapse of Savings and Retirement Funds 26. The Overbuilt Economy and the Resulting Collapse of Consumer Demand 27. New Waves of Business Bankruptcies 28. The Stagnant Stock Market of the 2010s 29. Collapse of Bond Markets 30. Private Sector Layoffs 31. The Shrinking Tax Base 32. Public Bankruptcies and Bailouts 33. Public Sector Layoffs 34. Deflation 35. The National Debt Crisis 36. The Money-Printing Crisis 37. Climate Change And the Failure of Human Ecologies 38. Domestic Polarization Around Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics 39. The Safety Net Insolvency Crisis 40. Breakdown of Political Civility 41. Failure of Political Support For a Responsible Tax Policy 42. Lack of Victim Nations or Populations On Which U.S. or Other Dominant Nations Can Impose Economic or Political Will 43. U.S. Military & Diplomatic Weakness, Declining Nuclear Security, and the Proliferation Of Non-State Terrorist Agency 44. Inefficacies and Spiraling Costs of Private and Public Sector Bailouts and Rescues Part Two: Personal Prescriptions for a Financial Crisis That Seems Like It Will Never End 1. Changing Your Borrowing Habits 2. Stop Giving 100%: We'll Do Just Fine with a 75 Per Cent Economy 3. What Do You Really Need to Enjoy Life? 4. A Top Ten List of Basic Needs 5. Home Maintenance and Energy Costs 6. Consider Renting a Home 7. Geographical Cures 8. Reduce Your Economic Radius 9. Thinking Through Tax Implications To Get the Most out of What You Spend 10. Harvesting Cash from What You Don't Need 11. Renting Out Part or All of Your Home 12. Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow 13. Leadership Must Lead: Expect the Best, Not the Most, from Governmen 6804572 6 7 2009 The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide to the Greatest Financial Crisis of the Century (Understanding and Surviving the Domino Depression) total:1|4:1| 1 4 1 0 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 18:43:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:43:20 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6610602