Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History
I urge one and all to buy it as both an education and as a keepsake... The author is one of the modern greats in historical fact-finding and investigative history... This is a thoughtful balanced book that will make any intelligent person with integrity ANGRY...Webster Tarpley is an American hero in the tradition of Paul Revere. --Robert D Steele, Amazon.Like He's Looking into a crystal Ball.... I'm sure this book has long ago been forgotten by readers of financial/economic books. This book was written in 1999, and the author accurately predicts the currently unfolding global economic destruction being wrought by derivatives. He describes, in detail, the mode by which leverage created through derivative use will bring down global banking powerhouses and our nation's economy. His reasoned assumptions of how the Federal Reserve will handle such a crisis is actually chilling to read, because he gets it completely right. The only thing this author could not foresee was that Greenspan would inflate a yet larger bubble after collapse of the dot-com bubble, which would delay the onset of his predicted cataclysm. A fascinating book for its history of the "globaloney" financial structure and turmoil it has caused, along with his prescient analysis of how it comes crashing down. Great book! --EL, AmazonWebster is articulate and very intelligent. I remain amazed at how he can juggle a million pieces of the puzzle from various disciplines and then fit the puzzle together. This book will give you an insight into the causes of our financial nightmare that is missing in mainstream media. --Book Heaven, Amazon.Like He's Looking into a crystal Ball.... I'm sure this book has long ago been forgotten by readers of financial/economic books. This book was written in 1999, and the author accurately predicts the currently unfolding global economic destruction being wrought by derivatives. He describes, in detail, the mode by which leverage created through derivative use will bring down global banking powerhouses and our nation's economy. His reasoned assumptions of how the Federal Reserve will handle such a crisis is actually chilling to read, because he gets it completely right. The only thing this author could not foresee was that Greenspan would inflate a yet larger bubble after collapse of the dot-com bubble, which would delay the onset of his predicted cataclysm. A fascinating book for its history of the "globaloney" financial structure and turmoil it has caused, along with his prescient analysis of how it comes crashing down. Great book! --EL, Amazon, ASIN 0930852958Webster is articulate and very intelligent. I remain amazed at how he can juggle a million pieces of the puzzle from various disciplines and then fit the puzzle together. This book will give you an insight into the causes of our financial nightmare that is missing in mainstream media. --Book Heaven, Amazon, ASIN 0930852958--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.