Preface: Why We Wrote This Book Now viiAcknowledgments ixChapter 1: Fake Money, Real Danger - Massive Covid Stimulus Boosted the Boom and Will Bring on the Bust 1Chapter 2: Fake Money, Fake Wealth? 21Chapter 3: Will We Ever Get High, Long-Lasting Inflation? If So, When? 33Chapter 4: Won't the Pandemic Stimulus End and Solve This Whole Fake Money Problem? 59Chapter 5: How to Make the Most Money Now - First, Avoid Picking Individual Stocks Despite Enormous Pressure to Do So 71Chapter 6: How to Beat the Market Now and Get Out Before the Bubble Pops Later 95Chapter 7: How the Big Fake Money Bubble Will Pop 127Chapter 8: What If We're Wrong? Great, You'll Make Tons of Money in the Ever-Rising Stock Market! 137Epilogue: It's Productivity Growth, Stupid! 139Appendix A: Buying Stock Is Not Investing 147Appendix B: The Trouble with Bubbles 155Appendix C: An Important Long-Term Lack of Correlation 165Appendix D: Our New Model Reveals Why the Stock Market Bubble Is So Hard to See - And How It Will Likely Pop 173Appendix E: Questions and Answers Regarding Inflation (Chapter 3) 191Index 197
DAVID WIEDEMER, PHD, is a world expert in macro-evolutionary economic analysis. He is Chief Economist for Ark Financial Management and holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.ROBERT A. WIEDEMER is a Senior Investment Advisor for Ark Financial Management, a macro-focused money management firm in alignment with the macroeconomic analysis and advice offered in Aftershock and Fake Money, Real Danger. Mr. Wiedemer holds a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.CINDY S. SPITZER is an award-winning author who has collaborated on dozens of books, including Chicken Soup for the Soul, Buy and Hold is Dead (Again), America's Bubble Economy, Aftershock, and Fake Money, Real Danger. She is also a Senior Investment Advisor at Ark Financial Management.